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Young Ones One Show launches new creative brief Clash Royale

Source: © 123rf LinkedIn has launched its Companies Hub to boost B2B marketing intelligence

LinkedIn boost B2B marketing intelligence with Companies Hub

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Top 16 Youth-Owned Brands Awards announce 2024 nominees

31 May 2024

Image supplied. Carlos Fernando Chamorro, editor-in-chief of Confidencial (Photo: Mick Friis)

Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro awarded Wan-Ifra's Golden Pen of Freedom

31 May 2024

Image supplied. Wan-Ifra announced the 2024 Digital Media Awards Worldwide winners with SA’s Food For Mzansi Group, wining the 2024 Digital Media Awards Worldwide Best Podcast category

SA's Food For Mzansi Group wins Wan-Ifra 2024 Digital Media Awards Podcast category

28 May 2024

MTN tops Brand Finance Africa 200 2024 rankings

27 May 2024

The Stream of Consciousness

Updated: D&AD Awards 2024: SA brings home 8 Pencils

27 May 2024

New Coca-Cola Wozzaah celebrates vibrant and dynamic African culture

New Coca-Cola Wozzaah celebrates vibrant and dynamic African culture

24 May 2024

Africa’s creative sector at a crossroads

Africa’s creative sector at a crossroads

Brenda Fashugba 24 May 2024

Source: © Ekonomist The MMA SA is launching the inaugural sub-Saharan Africa Smarties (SSA Smarties) this year, expanding into key markets like Kenya and Nigeria

MMA SA launches inaugural sub-Saharan Africa Smarties in Kenya and Nigeria

24 May 2024

Source: © 123rf A CMO study has found that chief marketing officers appear clear, confident, and intentional in where Gen AI integration and application will deliver the best results in marketing process improvement and execution in 2024

A clear and confident shift in marketing technology as CMOs embrace AI

22 May 2024

Afreximbank launches Canex Prize for Publishing in Africa to promote literary excellence

22 May 2024

The Coca-Cola system in Kenya announces major investment

The Coca-Cola system in Kenya announces major investment

22 May 2024

Image supplied. The final and full shortlist for the D&AD Awards has been released and the 62nd D&AD Awards ceremony takes place tomorrow, Wednesday 22 May in London

Full D&AD shortlist revealed

21 May 2024

The 62nd annual D&AD Awards’ first shortlist has been announced

D&AD Awards announce first shortlist

21 May 2024

Source: © Provoke Media Magna Carta Reputation Management Consultants' media relief fund campaign for MTN and Sanef won the 2024 Sabre African Awards' Platinum Sabre for Best in Show

2024 Sabre African Awards: SA's Magna Carta wins Best in Show Platinum Sabre, Nigeria's Chain Reactions wins most Awards

20 May 2024

Image supplied. The recent SoCreative Summit 2024 saw the launch of the British Council's new eLearning platform, SoCreative

SoCreative series: Free online courses for creative business entrepreneurs

17 May 2024

Source: © PRCA The third annual Ethics and PR Landscape survey in Africa has revealed an increase in reported cases of unethical behaviour compared to 2023

Ethics and PR Landscape survey in Africa reveals increase in unethical behaviour

17 May 2024

Création Africa's top 12 entrepreneur finalists announced

Création Africa's top 12 entrepreneur finalists announced

16 May 2024

2 Tunisian journalists jailed pending trial, bolstering fears for free speech

Tunisian newsroom 16 May 2024

Google Hustle Academy is back for 2024

Google boosts African SMEs with AI-powered Hustle Academy

15 May 2024

The Blueprint for Brand Growth. An evidence-based framework that defines the future of marketing

Kantar 15 May 2024

Source: © Witness Media Lab Many people have been targeted by deep fakes

WPP CEO Mark Read targeted by deep fake AI scam

15 May 2024

Image supplied. Levergy, South Africa, Creative Edge, Kenya and VML, Tunisia are among the shortlisted agencies in the Warc Awards for Effectiveness 2024, in association with the Cannes Lions

3 African agencies on Warc Awards for Effectiveness 2024 shortlist

14 May 2024

Dumisani Moyo is the marketing director at SAP. Source: Supplied.

#AfricaMonth: Dumisani Moyo, marketing director at SAP, envisions innovation in Africa

Karabo Ledwaba 10 May 2024

Katy Katopodis' PRCA Ethics & Practices Board appointment underscores its critical role

Katy Katopodis' PRCA Ethics & Practices Board appointment underscores its critical role

8 May 2024

Joy Richu is on the Cannes Lions See It Be It cohort. Source: Supplied.

#AfricaMonth: Kenyan illustrator, Joy Richu shines spotlight on African creativity

Karabo Ledwaba 6 May 2024

Burkina Faso suspends more foreign media over killings coverage

Alessandra Prentice 29 Apr 2024

Tick all the X’s with Biz Content Feature Sponsorship

Tick all the X’s with Biz Content Feature Sponsorship

Bizcommunity.com 26 Apr 2024

Ana Rocha is a mentor for the LIA's. Source: LinkedIN.

5 African creatives join LIA mentoring programme as coaches

24 Apr 2024

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

Raymond Langa 24 Apr 2024

Meta has unleashed its AI assistant into all of its social media apps.

Meta slides AI assistant into DMs in 7 African countries

Lindsey Schutters 22 Apr 2024

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Source: Supplied. Samuel Seeff, chairman of the Seeff Property Group.

Property

#AfricaMonth: Seeff explores the continent's real estate trends and growth opportunities

Katja Hamilton 28 May 2024

Navigating unemployment in a changing skills development landscape

HR & Management

Navigating unemployment in a changing skills development landscape

Tarryn Mason, Progression 28 May 2024

The future of Africa's automotive industry: Key insights and trends

Automotive

The future of Africa's automotive industry: Key insights and trends

Dentsu 28 May 2024

Latest accreditations awarded by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (NPC) Cohsasa

Healthcare

Latest accreditations awarded by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (NPC) Cohsasa

COHSASA 28 May 2024

New Coca-Cola Wozzaah celebrates vibrant and dynamic African culture

Retail

New Coca-Cola Wozzaah celebrates vibrant and dynamic African culture

24 May 2024

Saudi Arabia is making moves in the global telecoms industry

ICT

CompCom approves Saudi telecom deal to acquire CMC Networks

Lindsey Schutters 21 May 2024

Mukuru CEO Andy Jury on stage at Africa Tech Week 2024

ICT

#ATW24: Mukuru's customer-first approach behind Africa longevity

Lindsey Schutters 20 May 2024

A villager arrives to collect her monthly allocations of food aid provided by the World Food Program (WFP) in Mumijo, Buhera district east of the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, 16 March 2024. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

ESG & Sustainability

More than half of Zimbabwean population will need food aid, cabinet says

Nyasha Chingono 17 May 2024

Source: © Ollivier Girad/CIFOR-ICRAF Fifty-eight ‘forgotten’ food crops in sub-Saharan Africa have been identified as able to provide healthy diets in a changing climate

Agriculture

Africa’s ‘forgotten’ foods research wins prestigious US Cozzarelli Prize

16 May 2024

Google Hustle Academy is back for 2024

Entrepreneurship

Google boosts African SMEs with AI-powered Hustle Academy

15 May 2024

Undersea cables connecting East Africa to the internet have experienced multiple incidents in 2024.

ICT

East Africa internet disrupted by another major undersea cable cut

Lindsey Schutters 12 May 2024

The SBA whitepaper is a global first focus on the continent

ICT

Report: Tower companies fuel Africa’s telecommunications boom

Lindsey Schutters 10 May 2024

Doctors and medical practitioners under the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) participate in a demonstration to demand payment of their salary arrears and the immediate hiring of trainee doctors, among other grievances, in Nairobi, Kenya, 16 April 2024. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo

Healthcare

Kenyan government doctors sign agreement to end strike

George Obulutsa 9 May 2024

Source: © Kapital Afrik BNP Paribas is technically not operating as a bank in South Africa

Finance

BNP Paribas no longer operating in South Africa

Danette Breitenbach 7 May 2024

Image supplied. Last year's African Banker Award. the African Banker magazine’s African Banker Awards nominees have been announced for this year

Finance

3 women nominees for African Banker Awards Banker of the Year

7 May 2024

Index Hotels SA takes over management of the C Resort & Residences in Prampram, Ghana

Tourism & Travel

Index Hotels SA takes over management of the C Resort & Residences in Prampram, Ghana

Index Hotels 7 May 2024

ESG & Sustainability

Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management

Sean Avery 6 May 2024

Plants are displayed at the booth of American multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil during the LNG 2023 energy trade show in Vancouver. Source: Reuters/Chris Helgren

Energy & Mining

$1.3bn Exxon Nigeria asset sale could be approved

Camillus Eboh and Isaac Anyaogu 3 May 2024

Energy & Mining

Undeterred ExxonMobil pushes forward with Mozambique LNG project

Wendell Roelf and Manuel Mucari 3 May 2024

Tororo Solar North Limited, is a special purpose vehicle company (SPV) established to develop, build, operate and maintain a 10MW Photovoltaic Power Plant in Eastern Uganda.

Construction & Engineering

Red Rocket secures funding for Virginia Solar project

2 May 2024

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