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Report released on podcasting in Africa

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#BizTrends2018: Delivering UX with soul

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Samantha Wright, content producer at Tech Girl.

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Gustav Goosen, CEO of The SpaceStation.

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Gil Sperling, CTO of Popimedia.

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Desiree Gullan 8 Jan 2018

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Leigh Andrews, editor-in-chief of marketing and media at Bizcommunity.

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Mike Oelschig, head of advisory at Cerebra.

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Brett Morris, group CEO of FCB Africa.

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Michelle Beh, managing and strategy director at The Jupiter Drawing Room.

#BizTrends2019: Embracing uncertainties and change to survive 2019

Michelle Beh 24 Jan 2019

#BizTrends2019: Facebook is the dial tone, not the message

#BizTrends2019: Facebook is the dial tone, not the message

Leigh Andrews 22 Jan 2019

#BizTrends2019: The speed of culture

#BizTrends2019: The speed of culture

Yatish Narsi 22 Jan 2019

Mark Tomlinson, group managing director Hellocomputer.

#BizTrends2019: Embrace these business-changing themes or suffer the consequences...

Mark Tomlinson 21 Jan 2019

Peter Khoury, Creative Circle chairperson and CCO of TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg.

#BizTrends2019: The rise of live communications and branded everything

Peter Khoury 16 Jan 2019

Kalliebree Keynerd, head of social media at Joe Public Connect.

#BizTrends2019: From disappearing acts to dark social and digital wellness

Kalliebree Keynerd 16 Jan 2019

Olesia Bilkei ©

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Leigh Andrews 15 Jan 2019

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#BizTrends2019: Digital, data-driven biometrics

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Pine Pienaar 15 Jan 2019

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The Mann brothers - Mic, Shayne and Kevin.

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The Soapbox Films team with Stein back-left.

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#BizTrends2018: How to manoeuvre through 2018 and come out the other side

#BizTrends2018: How to manoeuvre through 2018 and come out the other side

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Mike Sharman, owner, Retroviral Digital Communications.

#BizTrends2018: Putting the 'I' in live.

Mike Sharman 11 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Delivering UX with soul

#BizTrends2018: Delivering UX with soul

Mike Carter 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: The Platform Economy

#BizTrends2018: The Platform Economy

Josephine Buys 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: It is time for marketing professionals to become more innovative

#BizTrends2018: It is time for marketing professionals to become more innovative

Desiree Gullan 8 Jan 2018

Mike Oelschig, head of advisory at Cerebra.

#BizTrends2018: The (eventual) rise of the social command centre in South Africa

Mike Oelschig 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Prescriptive data in the digital space, the next big thing

#BizTrends2018: Prescriptive data in the digital space, the next big thing

Paula Raubenheimer 8 Jan 2018

Leigh Andrews, editor-in-chief of marketing and media at Bizcommunity.

#BizTrends2018: Rewind from attention spam back to attention span

Leigh Andrews 8 Jan 2018

Natalie Pool, Native VML's head of content.

#BizTrends2018: Is the 280-character count the end of brands on Twitter?

Natalie Pool 8 Jan 2018

Samantha Wright, content producer at Tech Girl.

#BizTrends2018: Death to the influencer - a shift in word-of-mouth marketing

Samantha Wright 8 Jan 2018

Gustav Goosen, CEO of The SpaceStation.

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Gustav Goosen 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: An augmented reality check

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#BizTrends2018: Personalised advertising, robots and AR

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