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#BizTrends2017: Stop driving customers away with poor marketing automation

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#BizTrends2017: Consumers demand communication with local nuance

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#BizTrends2017: The year of living simply

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#BizTrends2017: Future proofing your brand for 2017

  17 Jan 2017

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#BizTrends2017: The march for talent 4.0

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David Drew
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#BizTrends2017: Audiences have increased control on digital platforms

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#BizTrends2017: Three things will drive broadcast innovation

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  16 Jan 2017

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#BizTrends2017: Mobile trends for 2017

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#BizTrends2017: The future of marketing in 360-degrees

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  12 Jan 2017

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#BizTrends2017: The shift from the experience economy to the transformation economy

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#BizTrends2017: The top 100 emerging consumer trends

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#BizTrends2017: The youth market want it all now
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#BizTrends2017: Top six trends for this year

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#BizTrends2017: Three things will drive broadcast innovation
#BizTrends2017: Three things will drive broadcast innovation

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#BizTrends2017: Mobile trends for 2017

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#BizTrends2017: The future of marketing in 360-degrees
#BizTrends2017: The future of marketing in 360-degrees

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#BizTrends2017: Forrester predicts "less is more" for marketing

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#BizTrends2017: The shift from the experience economy to the transformation economy
#BizTrends2017: The shift from the experience economy to the transformation economy

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Image by 123RF
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 10 Jan 2017

#BizTrends2017: The top 100 emerging consumer trends
#BizTrends2017: The top 100 emerging consumer trends

10 Jan 2017

#BizTrends2017: The youth market want it all now
#BizTrends2017: The youth market want it all now

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 28 Jan 2016

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Contributors to this piece (top to bottom, L to R): Graham Cruikshanks, TBWA\Africa; Ken Kyaka, TBWA\Redhouse Kenya; Hunsa Chikaha, TBWA\ Khanga Rue, Tanzania; Tumiso Mabusela, TBWA\ Medcom, Botswana; Filipe Braga, TBWA\ Angola; Yosia Lukwago, TBWA\ Limelight, Uganda; Kobby Acquah-Hayford, TBWA\Markcom, Ghana; Kelechi Nwosu, TBWA\ Concept, Nigeria; and Sapi Bachi, TBWA\ Zimbabwe
Social activism and trench marketing FTW

 18 Jan 2016

[BizTrends 2016] The new digital Africa
The new digital Africa

 18 Jan 2016

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