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Until we meet again... It is with a sad heart that I write my last ed's column today as I bid this fabulous company, Bizcommunity.com, and all our readers farewell. I have always had the dratted travel bug (which cannot be cured with any vaccination unfortunately), and so, when the opportunity arrived to leave on a jet-plane to Northern Italy for a few months, I simply couldn't decline. As the Arab proverb goes: "He who lives sees much. He who travels sees more." And I really do want to see more... It has been such a privilege to work here, learn here and play here and I am going to miss you all tons! You will still however be able to get all your Marketing & Media Africa B2B news right here, every week. Marketing & Media Africa press releases, content partnerships queries and other related communication can be sent to africanews@bizcommunity.com, and opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com. Review opportunities and Lifestyle news can be sent to lifestyle@bizcommunity.com. For any other queries, please contact Rod Baker at marketingnews@bizcommunity.com. News-wise, Leigh Andrews writes about Ole! Media Group making waves in the African marketing industry; and as always, a highlight on Biz Africa, our annual Trends series which is jam-packed with world-class insights from top contributors and industry experts. If you missed the special edition Trends newsletter, you can view it here, or follow the hashtag #BizTrends2015 on Twitter. Well, that's all from me! I wish you all a wonderful 2015. Until we meet again, ciao! Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (ilse_vdberg) / (@Biz_Africa) Comment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Weekly top stories |
| | [Louise Marsland] It's all about me, you and what we want. Now. No waiting around. This is the year the consumer and content will dominate and brands learn the meaning of true collaboration... read more>>
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Jez Frampton & Doug de Villiers Digital technology is ending the long reign of the book as a repository of knowledge and ushering in a world of interconnectedness, intelligent machines, vast data sets, and powerful algorithms... Read more >> | Adene van der Walt There are five key strategies that marketers and advertisers need to embrace in the following year. The key take out: deliver products that are up to date and innovative, while remaining true to your brand's core values... Read more >> | Mike Sharman Influencer marketing, Africa and reaching the Millennials in the hidden, dark spaces they inhabit online, means brands need to enhance their cult status to win over Generation Z. Read more >> |
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 | On the very first Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show of 2015, show host Warren Harding interviewed Warren Venter from M4JAM and Louise Marsland about BizTrends2015... read more>> | | |
 | Anton Harber I once asked a South African editor why he ran a cartoon that he agreed was offensive. He said he had felt obliged, as he did not want to censor a well-known and much-respected cartoonist... read more>> | |  | The Senegalese government banned the dissemination of Wednesday's editions of the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo and the French daily Liberation... read more>> | | |
 | In the first iteration of our new weekly feature, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie, with Alistair King, Group Chief Creative Officer of King James Group... read more>> | |  | Leigh Andrews If an agency that's focused on fixing its clients' business problems above winning awards sounds too good to be true, you haven't encountered Flume... read more>> | |  | Michael Ouma GOtv Kenya and StarTimes Kenya have come out to castigate four TV stations - NTV, KTN, QTV and Citizen - for an advert carried on their channels which has been advising people against purchasing decoders from the two firms... read more>> | | |
 | The Indian Government has awarded its Young Visionaries Fellowship Award to Zimbabwean call centre expert, Rinos Mautsa for his contribution to the growth of the country's call centre industry... read more>> | | |
 | Digital security company, Gemalto, has announced that it will be opening an office in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, as part of the group's strategy of being a global player with a local presence... read more>> | |  | Darryl Linington According to the Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NiRA), Nigeria saw a drop in domain name purchases in late 2014... read more>> | |  | Michael Fletcher We now live in a data-centric, wireless world, and no technology is better suited to address this reality than Wi-Fi. In fact, global hotspot* numbers are expected to grow to more than 340 million... read more>> | | |
 | Paul Adepoju On 14 and 15 January Senegal's capital city of Dakar will host the third edition of #HackAgainstEbola, organised by OSIWA, UPF, Code for Africa and the Global Editors Network. The event is supported by Google... read more>> | | |
 | Leigh Andrews TEAMtalk Media, MobiMedia, AddSuite, LoveDigital and Honeykome are all making waves in the African marketing industry. Ole! Media Group CMO Deseré Orrill tells us more... read more>> | |  | The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has predicted that availability of low-cost smartphones will increase in 2015... read more>> | |  | Jaco Barnard New technologies such as cloud computing are revolutionising the way people do business across the globe. In the African market, infrastructure has traditionally proven to be a challenge that has hindered adoption of new technologies... read more>> | | |
 | To help PR professionals plan their press release distribution and PR activities in Africa, APO has released a Language Search Tool, which includes all 54 African countries... read more>> | |  | The thought of pitching your product or idea to a small business investor is enough to make the bravest of people quake in their boots, but at some point you will need to sell yourself and your business... read more>> | | |
 | Issued by Joanne Pollard Associates Joanne Pollard has seen the need for a specialist sub-Saharan recruitment division and has launched AFRI RECRUIT to service sub-Saharan Africa and south-west Africa initially... read more>> | | |
 | The development of locally relevant internet content that is attractive to users has been shown to have a positive impact on internet adoption... read more>> | | |
 | Business decision-makers should be asking themselves how they can respond quickly to fast-changing customer demand, how they can contain or reduce escalating costs and how they can enter emerging markets without substantially increasing their risk... read more>> | | |
 | Leigh Andrews If the thought of sitting through a documentary has you flicking through the channels faster than you can say 'I prefer mindless entertainment', the new BBC World News series Storyville Global, might change your mind... read more>> | |  | Tom Jackson Nigerian video-on-demand (VoD) company, iROKOtv, and Tigo Rwanda have partnered to provide free video entertainment to the operator's 4G/LTE subscribers... read more>> | | |  | PARIS, FRANCE: French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has sold 1.9 million copies of its latest issue, which has provoked protests by Muslims around the globe over a new cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed... read more>> | |  | ISTANBUL, TURKEY: Vilified by conservatives at home for standing by Charlie Hebdo after the Paris attacks, a Turkish satirical weekly is defiantly refusing to tone down its mockery of authority... read more>> | |  | LONDON, UK: It's a brand new year that is likely to bring a brand new set of challenges for marketers to get their heads around... read more>> | |  | NEW YORK, CITY, US: The 2015 Torch Awards is now open for entries... read more>> | | | | | | | More International | |
|  | Martyn Davies Is Africa's development inevitable? The conventional assumption is that all countries and regions will develop - albeit at different speeds - and eventually graduate from "emerging economy" status into the ranks of the First World... read more>> | |  | Bianca Capazorio Eskom has lost more power capacity over the past year than it will be able to build over the next two years... read more>> | |  | President Jacob Zuma will lead a South African delegation of Cabinet Ministers and business leaders to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, from 20-24 January 2015... read more>> | | Sebastian Buckup | | | | | More Government news | |
|  | Brian Berkman You're visiting Washington DC, right... so what better than to visit The Ritz-Carlton Club - and yes, it's a good as it sounds... read more>> | | | More Travel news | |
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| Ella Fitzgerald "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." Maya Angelou "You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you." Keith Ferrazzi "Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated." |
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