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#BizTrends2022: Afrobeats, the new frontier for marketers

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Microsoft CMO on the transformation of digital marketing

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Mike Beukes 31 Jan 2019

Brett Morris, group CEO of FCB Africa.

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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

BizTrendsLIVE! Avoid the FOMO!

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Auryn Hiscock and Mikhaila Hunter, executive creative director and strategic relationships & marketing manager at Fort respectively.

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#BizTrends2019: Vertical video, Amazon muscle and integration in 2019

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Johanna McDowell 11 Jan 2019

Tseliso Rangaka, ECD of Ogilvy and chairman of the Loeries.

#BizTrends2019: The year creatives will hack bravery

Tseliso Rangaka 9 Jan 2019

Publishers continue to hone their strategies around native advertising

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Pete Case, chief creative officer, Ogilvy & Mather South Africa.

#BizTrends2018: The transformation of the advertising space

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#BizTrends2018: It's not on top, it's inside

#BizTrends2018: It's not on top, it's inside

Gillian Rightford 2 Feb 2018

#BizTrends2018: Trends in ad ops and ad tech

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Pilira Mwambala 2 Feb 2018

Nandi Zambodla, strategist at FCB Cape Town.

#BizTrends2018: Millennials are not a homogenous group

Nandi Zambodla 12 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: The changing media environment for ad agencies

#BizTrends2018: The changing media environment for ad agencies

Odette van der Haar 10 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Sex, data and advertising

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Natalie Otte, Ilse Dinner, Kantar 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Storytelling has to sit at the core of it all

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Brett Morris 8 Jan 2018

Nicole Solarsh Glickman, creative group head at House of Brave.

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Amanda Dlamini, strategic planning manager at Y&R.

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#BizTrends2018: E-sports in South Africa - it's only just begun

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#BizTrends2018: It's not on top, it's inside

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#BizTrends2018: Go where the people are

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Brett Morris 8 Jan 2018

Amanda Dlamini, strategic planning manager at Y&R.

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#BizTrends2017: Programmatic promise for South African marketers

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#BizTrends2017: 2017 will be the year of AR, video and mobile commerce

Marketing & Media#BizTrends2017: 2017 will be the year of AR, video and mobile commerce

Werner Lindemann 31 Jan 2017

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John Little

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Carl Willoughby

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[Trends 2015] The year of transformation

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