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DDB South Africa and its digital affiliate agency, Tribal DDB, are merging to form a single multi-disciplinary creative and strategic agency – in so doing, breaching the ‘digital divide’ that has forced too…
Brian Mdluli will be leaving the DMASA after five years as CEO to pursue his career in business. Michelle Perrow, acting chairman of the DMASA, said “we have been very fortunate to have had Brian as our CEO…
The Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) has received top honours at the Festival of Media Awards held in Switzerland last week. The group claimed the Network of the Year award following its 32 entries receiving…
The Board of Cell C announced that it has decided to appoint Alan Knott-Craig as the new Chief Executive Officer of Cell C. Mr Knott Craig will join the company and the Cell C Board of Directors on 1 April…
Sbu Mpungose has been appointed editor of one of South Africa’s biggest women’s glossy brand, Cosmopolitan . Sbu will take over from Vanessa Raphaely, who will continue in her role as editorial director of…
Loyal readers of the Financial Mail will notice something different about the publication. Four significant changes have been made:
Every business goes through change. The MediaShop is no different. The one thing that every successful business has in common, is that the whole is always a lot stronger than any of the parts. The share price…
RamsayMedia’s Custom Publishing division has welcomed Tania de Kock as editor of Automobil . With a long history in custom and business-to-business publishing, she brings invaluable experience to the team.
Veteran journalist Henriëtte Loubser is coming home to Huisgenoot – this time as the editor. Current editor Julia Viljoen is retiring at the end of 2012, 31 years after joining the magazine’s staff as a…
Google announced the launch of Google Engage http://www.google.com.au/ads/engage/ > , a new partner programme to support South African web professionals who provide services to SMBs.
Media24 Custom and Business Magazines would like to announce the appointment of Danette Breitenbach as Editor and Publishing Manager of AdVantage magazine as of 1 March 2012.
Newly-established media analysis and research company, PEAR, has aligned itself with the 15 th annual PRISA PRISM Awards to take place on 25 March in Rosebank by sponsoring the Digital Media Relations award.
There’s good news for those who thought they’d missed the boat: the entry deadline for the 17th annual PENDORING Awards has been extended until 23 August 2011.
Capitec Bank Holdings scooped the coveted title as South Africa’s top company at the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies Awards banquet held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Capitec won in 2010 and…
Forbes Africa launched last night at a star-studded event where mining tycoon, Patrice Motsepe, was revealed as the man on the cover of the first edition. In the cover story Motsepe refutes nationalization and…
Fabric, one of the UK and Middle East’s leading marketing, communications and digital recruitment firms has entered the South African market with the launch today of its Johannesburg office.
Seasoned journalist, Mazwi Xaba, is the new editor of the powerhouse Zulu language daily newspaper, Isolezwe.
Coca-Cola, arguably the world’s strongest and best managed heritage brand, is joining Europcar, McDonald’s, Sanlam, Vega, Avis, Vital, Telkom, Business Connexion, Kulula and PPC as a founder sponsor of the…
Forbes Africa launched last night at a star-studded event where mining tycoon, Patrice Motsepe, was revealed as the man on the cover of the first edition. In the cover story Motsepe refutes nationalization and…
South Africa’s investment publication Finweek is about to shakeup the local business news market as its new product offering hits shelves in early October.
The missing piece to the puzzle of social media engagement has been found in Universal McCann’s Wave 5 research entitled “The Socialisation of Brands”. To help brands create successful social media programmes…
HMC Seswa Corporate Communications has successfully concluded an agreement with UK – based leading independent European communications consultancy, Firefly Communications.
Famous Publishing and Media 24 have just launched The Parks, a brand new lifestyle magazine for LSM 10+, to cover a very important area in Johannesburg.
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