10 Jul 2013

Marketing & Media Africa

Today's top stories

SOUTH AFRICA
Mxit Brand Index: 30 June 2013
The latest Mxit Brand Index has been released, revealing the top 20 South African brands on Mxit on 30 June 2013. Read more >>

Branding
AFRICA
Aegis Media unveil Baileys new bottle
Aegis Media were asked to do a campaign for Baileys, a Diageo brand, in both Nigeria and Kenya, and 72 hours later had a creative concept and execution plan that fully answered and met the client's brief and saw three of their network brands - Posterscope, Isobar and Carat working as one integrated unit. Read more >>




Cinema
AFRICA
African filmmakers head to DIFF
The 34th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, with principal funding by the National Lottery Development Trust Fund, has finalised the selection of participants for the 6th edition of the Talent Campus Durban which takes place from 19-23 July 2013. Read more >>


Digital
AFRICA
Gilat Satcom to announce new fibre routes in Africa
Next week at the Great Rift Valley ICT summit taking place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 17-18 July 2013, Gilat Satcom will unveil a raft of new fibre routes in coastal and landlocked Africa. Read more >>


Education & Training
KENYA
Apply now for 2013 Young Environmental Envoy Programme
Are you a young Kenyan aged between 18 and 24 years? Are you passionate about the environment? Here is a chance for you to become a UNEP-Bayer Young Environmental Envoy. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Thomson Reuters Foundation training course for journalists
TrustMedia, a Thomson Reuters Foundation, is inviting journalists around the world for a five day intensive course on the coverage of women's issues, their opinions and rights. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Is the tablet the whiteboard of the future for corporate training?
[Glenn Gillis] No-one would dispute that corporate training is a necessary process for all organisations. Some might even say training is now more important than it has ever been. Read more >>


Media
AFRICA
Checking the Africa facts
[Magnus Taylor] What's the most important question in a journalist's armoury? Answer: is it true? Read more >>

ZAMBIA
Two journos detained without charge in Zambia
Zambian authorities should release two journalists who have been detained since early Tuesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have said. Read more >>


Mobile
AFRICA
Africa should leap into the post-PC era
South Africa and the rest of the African continent should not just be looking to bridge the digital divide, but instead to leapfrog developed countries by aggressively adopting advanced mobile technologies over the next few years. Read more >>


PR & Communications
AFRICA
Africa Wire to reach Bloomberg
The African Press Organisation (APO), a press release wire in Africa, has announced an alliance with Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news provider. Read more >>


Retail
AFRICA
Africa's crowdfunding context: starting up startups the African way
[Jacques Coetzee] "Crowdfunding is the democratization of [funding] for startups." People get the opportunity to directly vote with their wallets for the services or products they want. Though massively popular and hyped-up by the media in the US and Western Europe, where does it leave Africa? How has the continent adopted its philosophy to its own advantage, and is it successful? Read more >>


International

UNITED STATES
Coca-Cola, WWF expand global partnership
ATLANTA, US: The Coca-Cola Company and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are working to advance the Coca-Cola system's sustainability stewardship with the announcement today of new, bold global environmental goals and an expanded global partnership. Read more >>

UNITED KINGDOM
European firms not willing to work with companies that suffer a data breach
LONDON, UK: Iron Mountain and PwC study reveals this view is often held by firms that expect to lose data themselves. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
Midas Awards 2013 call for entries
NEW YORK, US: The 2013Midas Awards is now open for entries. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
Facebook's graph search starts rolling out
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Facebook on Monday (8 July) began rolling out a tool for US English language users to mine the social network's trove of experiences for anything from restaurant choices to photos of far-off places. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
Internet health searches not private: US researcher
WASHINGTON, US: Patients searching for health-related information on the Internet may find their privacy threatened, said a research letter published in a major US medical journal on Monday. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
ISS backs private buyout of Dell
NEW YORK, USA: A key shareholder advisory firm on Monday (8 July) backed a US$24.4bn private equity buyout of Dell, giving a major boost to the plan led by founder Michael Dell to reorganise the struggling computer company. Read more >>


More International


Partners

SOUTH AFRICA
What's in The Media's July edition?
In this month's issue of The Media magazine, Glenda Neville meets Dr Iqbal Survé, the man behind the consortium buying Independent Newspapers and Joanna Wright finds out what you need to be a multimedia journalist. Read more >>


Government

SOUTH AFRICA
Zuma shuffles Cabinet; Pule out
President Jacob Zuma has announced changes to the national cabinet. Dina Pule has lost her position as communications minister. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Sanral ads waste more money says Outa
The 200% rise in Sanral's advertising in the past two years is a "shocking waste of time", the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) said on Monday (8 July). Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
SA's finance intelligence head gets top post
South Africa's financial intelligence head Murray Michell has been appointed to chair the Egmont Group - an international organisation tasked with combating unlawful financial activities. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Justice will be served in teen rape case: Radebe
The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Jeff Radebe, has assured that justice will be done following the rape of a 13-year-old girl from Orange Farm. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Eskom extends Medupi's power delivery date; costs up
Eskom's Medupi coal fired power station in Limpopo is unlikely to deliver first power to the grid by the end of this year as it was envisioned, the power parastatal confirmed yesterday. Read more >>


More Government news


Lifestyle

SOUTH AFRICA
Tsogo Sun selected as official accommodation partner for Sports and Events Tourism Exchange
From 22-24 October 2013, the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Durban will host the Sports and Events Tourism Exchange (SETE) Conference and Exhibition. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Philharmonic Orchestra presents Cirque de la Symphonie
[Eugene Yiga] Following the success of its Celebrity Symphony Season, the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra presents a series of winter concerts, including four performances at City Hall and a special "Cirque de la Symphonie" at Artscape Theatre. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Mitsubishi flexes its cross-over muscle
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Cross-overs are all the rage in South Africa these days with a wide selection of makes and models to choose from and now that Mitsubishi has spruced up its practical and well-equipped three-model ASX range it is also muscling its way into the upper look-at-me echelons of this competitive segment of the market. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Registration open for UCT Dance Conference this week
[Debbie Hathway] Dance, Religion and Spirituality is the theme of the UCT School of Dance's seventh international dance conference entitled Confluences, which runs on campus from 11-13 July 2013. Read more >>


Jobs offered

German-speaking Sales Representative - Somerset West
International sales office for a Tanzanian tour operator is seeking a German speaking travel consultant/sales representative. Read more >>

Sales Representative - Somerset West
International sales office for a Tanzanian tour operator is seeking a travel consultant/sales representative. Read more >>



New events to diarise

Corporate Branding and Social Media Forum
The Conference Hub - 17 Jul 2013 to 18 Jul 2013 Johannesburg
The A - Z of Competitive Intelligence (CI)
CBIA - 17 Jul 2013 to 19 Jul 2013 Cape Town
Marketing Indaba
CADEK Media - 7 Aug 2013 to 8 Aug 2013 Durban
Agile Africa Conference
The Joburg Centre of Software Engineering (JCSE) - 12 Aug 2013 to 13 Aug 2013 Johannesburg
Southern Africa Payments Conference 2013
Trade Conferences International - 18 Sep 2013 to 19 Sep 2013 Johannesburg


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