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According to Warc, television still has a stronghold on advertising investment for soft drinks and food... read
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COTE D'IVOIRE
African economies come first and third in the Standard Chartered Trade20 Index, which identifies the markets with the greatest potential for future trade growth...read
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AFRICA
Three journalists have been shortlisted to win the inaugural APO Group African Women in Media Award...read
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AFRICA
JULIEN FOURIOT
Even though economic growth is slowing globally, technology innovation is unlocking unparalleled opportunities for countries all over the world, especially in Africa....read
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NIGERIA
The African Union has announced that it will host the 6th AFRIMA music awards in Nigeria, 20-23 November 2019, under the theme, 'Feel Africa'... Read
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AFRICA
The jury for the inaugural APO Group African Women in Media Award is announced... Read
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NAMIBIA
One Africa Television (OATV) has signed a live streaming and video-on-demand agreement with TV2Africa.com, which is a platform built for content providers and broadcasters... Read
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AFRICA
Dalberg partners with The Africa Centre and Africa Leadership Institute to launch the "Future Forum" in New York... Read
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EGYPT
Egyptian authorities should immediately release journalists Alaa Abdelfattah, Nasser Abdelhafez, Engi Abdel Wahab, and all others who have been imprisoned for their reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists said... Read
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NIGERIA
StarTimes, subscribers to Nigeria's leading pay-TV, will experience Tozali TV, a lifestyle TV with rich cultural entertainment content in Hausa and English... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
PAUL WOOD
Beyond Meat [recently] reported quarterly earnings of $67.3 million - much better than market expectations of $52.7 million... Read
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GLOBAL
Digital marketing agency AccuraCast's new research indicates that while advertising on mobile may lead to more clicks, it still falls behind when it comes to conversion... Read
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AFRICA
Hello Paisa recently introduced banking features for its consumers on WhatsApp... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SEAN SULLIVAN
Bracing and gearing our businesses for the onslaught of the future consumer is key to remaining relevant in the media industry and beyond... Read
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EGYPT
Egyptian B2B e-commerce marketplace MaxAB has secured seed funding of $6.2 million, one of the largest ever seed rounds raised by a MENA startup... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RYAN MCFADYEN
The best word to describe the state of influencer marketing in South Africa is 'fledgling'. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
We speak to managing director for the A+E Networks Africa's EMEA territories, Dean Possenniskie, who is responsible for overseeing and growing the channel's content distribution and digital media businesses across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa... Read
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NIGERIA
SAP Africa Code Week has collaborated with Nigeria's Niger and Taraba State Governments to bring digital skills training to teachers in the country's northern provinces for the first time... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GLENN GILLIS
Virtual Reality (VR) has received a lot of airtime over the past few years. For retailers, in particular, the technology offers completely new ways to reach their audiences. But are we thinking about this in the right way? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SHEILA MCGILLIVRAY
Following Agile's modular approach, here are four tips to optimising your Agile marketing... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LUISE ALLEMANN
One of the key speakers at the recent Gibs Contemporary Marketing Using Behavioural Science Customer Insights and the 4IR event was future finance specialist at Flux Trends, Bronwyn Williams who spoke about The New Rules of Marketing Engagement... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
REGINE LE ROUX
I believe that there are three key things that all businesses can learn from the collapse of Thomas Cook... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LAUREN HARTZENBERG
The global food and beverage business is brimming with innovation. Competition is stiff between FMCG giants and startups racing to get their latest product onto retail shelves and into the hands of consumers... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY KANTAR
In first place for Q1 we see the hilarious Heineken "Unmissable" advert which demonstrates a common experience for many of us - it's when you're not looking that your team will score the goal!.. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has announced the South Africa MMA 2019 Smarties shortlist... Read
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NIGERIA
Since starting Shea Origin, Mobola Sagoe has used her business to empower women in Nigeria - giving them the power to create, manage and thrive at their own businesses... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
New expectations of transparency and authenticity in business means things like organisational purpose, brand stories, how your company does things, what it believes in and what it stands for, can all play a part in how your company sees itself and how it is seen by others... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
While sustainability may be just a buzzword to some fashion companies, others ensure that every aspect of their business is sustainable - from the materials used to produce garments to ensuring that their staff is treated fairly... Read
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GHANA
Ghanaian Hiplife artiste, Opanka is coming with a new TV show project to promote up-coming artistes also known as underground artistes... Read
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ETHIOPIA
Ethiopia welcomes its first dedicated TV platform: Ethiosat. The Ethiosat platform will deliver HD channels to Ethiopian viewers for the first time... Read
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DR CONGO
DgTV is preparing to launch its commercial activities in the DRC. A communication campaign began a few days ago on social media, including Twitter... Read
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NIGERIA
Facebook partners with Teleperformance to open a Small Business Group Operations Centre in Lagos, aimed at serving SMBs across Sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
This Discovery Business Insurance and Heavy Chef's 'Inspire' Sessions event centred around influence - how to attain it, how to wield it and how to grow your business through using influencer marketing... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
To provide further support for the local film industry, the City of Cape Town has announced its plan to launch a film fund... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The winners of the 2019 annual New Generation Social & Digital Media Awards were announced at Montecasino, over the weekend... Read
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AFRICA
LADIMA FOUNDATION Announces Partnership with the Dortmund I Cologne International Women's Film Festival... Read
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NIGERIA
Playfre, Africa's first music streaming platform, has launched a new service called SongRoute... Read
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AFRICA
Africa Magic will release its Nollywood Stars pop-up channel for its DStv and GOtv viewers this October... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BRIAN CARTER
Companies that spend large amounts of money on advertising, but pay very little attention to the needs of their audience have no future... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Luxury fashion conglomerate Kering has pledged to become carbon-neutral across the entire group, within its own operations and across the entire supply chain... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
IVY BUCHE AND AMIT JOSHI
Ikea is celebrating its first anniversary of operating in India. Even though the company secured regulatory approval to enter the country in 2013, it took five years... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SHEREESA MOODLEY
In an effort to make online shopping more simple, Google on Thursday revealed a redesigned version of Google Shopping for both web and mobile... Read
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KENYA
VICTOR ODUNDO OWUOR
Over the past 10 years mobile-based lending has grown in Kenya. Some estimates put the number of mobile lending platforms at 49... Read
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AFRICA
Qu Dongyu, director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, has called for the food industry to do more to support healthy foods, and to reduce food loss and waste throughout the cycle of food systems from farm to fork... Read
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GHANA
IAIN JACKSON
The Volta River project in Ghana was a symbolic embodiment of progress, modernisation, and development... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
With so much hype surrounding new technology such as big data, cloud computing and AI, it is easy to miss the point of integrating them into your business operations... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Environment, forestry and fisheries minister Barbara Creecy recently launched the third National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA), which is a scientific reflection of the state of the country's biodiversity... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Management of OR Tambo International Airport says its strategy to boost air cargo volumes will be significantly enhanced by the airport becoming global logistics giant FedEx's first location to welcome a regularly scheduled flight into Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NOKWAZI MZOBE
When we consider that everything under the sun is affected by the different seasons we realise how integral change is to life... Read
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GHANA
GABRIEL BOTCHWEY & GORDON CRAWFORD
Small-scale gold mining in what is modern day Ghana can be traced as far back as the 15th century... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Skills development, learning spaces and the internet are what's needed for Africa's sustainable growth... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
All aboard for the eighth annual African Ports and Rail Evolution Forum - a two-day trade exhibition and conference taking place on from 15-16 October 2019 at the Durban International Convention Centre in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The modern workforce is tired and worn out. Advancements made in technology have resulted in the ability to always be online, always check mail, and to always be available for meetings... Read
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AFRICA
Noting that food systems are huge economic, social and environmental drivers of transformational change, FAO director-general Qu Dongyu believes turning them into accelerators of progress on the SDGs is essential... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
The opening keynote of the final day of the Gartner Symposium 2019 kicked off with a conversation with Nicky Newton-King, retiring from her role as CEO of the JSE on 30 September. She spoke of the role of tech in business and society and the aspects of leadership and transformation that have been part of her 23-year journey with the JSE... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
In order to provide young energy professionals with the tools and experience to become future leaders across the industry, the African Energy Chamber is launching its first Fellowship Programme. Applications are open throughout October 2019, for a one-year programme that will start in January 2020... Read
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NIGERIA
MICHAEL O. ALABI
Akure is one of Nigeria's emerging cities. Located within Ondo State in the country's south west, it's a settlement about 350kms from Lagos where roads meet from major towns such as Ilesa, Ondo, Owo and Ado-Ekiti... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Shopping centre developer Flanagan & Gerard Property Development & Investment has invested more than R16m to install solar plants at its malls... Read
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AFRICA
SHIRIN ASHRAF & EMMA THOMSON
The last five years have witnessed the two biggest outbreaks of Ebola, first in West Africa and currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)... Read
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KENYA
Tai+, an Estonian-based technology company has launched a mobile app that enables truckers to connect cargo shippers directly in real-time in Kenya... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
Snapslip Holdings is a South African digital receipting and analytics application... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
International expansion is a highly prized goal for many businesses... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
In a time where femicide has faded somewhat from headlines but fear still lurks beneath the surface, an overseas ad is making an impact on social media feeds as it calls for action... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Shell's flagship youth enterprise-development programme, LiveWIRE 2019, has kicked off... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ERNEST NORTH
Over the past few years, digital-native companies like Uber, Amazon, and Airbnb have redefined the rules of competition in their industries... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
Curacel is a Nigerian startup that aims to fast track claims processing and detects fraudulent claims for health insurance companies in Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BRETT CHRYSTAL
Following the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015, a number of European countries have made commitments to move to a net zero emissions economy... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
No one actually plans on finding themselves in a season of manoeuvring through the tough waters of single parenthood... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SAURABH KUMAR
Gender equality is one of the 17 goals identified by the United Nations (UN) as critical in creating a sustainable future. The UN aims for its Sustainable Development Goals to be realised by 2030. The reality, however, is that the world has a long way to go in achieving this goal in particular... Read
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ZIMBABWE
EVAN-LEE COURIE
YouFarm is a Zimbabwean startup that has been chosen by Startupbootcamp AfriTech to attend a three-month accelerator in Cape Town, South Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Vodacom is launching a series of workshops and interactive sessions called the Fast Forward Series... Read
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AFRICA
A major focus for the FAO is establishing a new business model based on science, data, transparency and accountability and that is conducive to strong partnerships with the private sector... Read
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