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#SAPR2025: The rise of AI and the fall of AVEs

PR & Communications

#SAPR2025: The rise of AI and the fall of AVEs

Danette Breitenbach 2 days

#Effies2025 | Halo and Pineapple: 100% sustained results

Effie Awards

#Effies2025 | Halo and Pineapple: 100% sustained results

Danette Breitenbach 2 days

#Effies2025 | Ogilvy and VW: Creating campaigns for societal change

Effie Awards

#Effies2025 | Ogilvy and VW: Creating campaigns for societal change

Danette Breitenbach 3 days

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Climate Change

TotalEnergies: French court ruling over false climate claims could boost African cases against polluters

Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala and Tracy-Lynn Field 3 days

All the FM AdFocus Awards winners (Image Danette Breitenbach © Bizcommunity)

Advertising

All the FM AdFocus Awards 2025 winners: Ogilvy leads the pack

3 days

Staying grounded during Black Friday and festive season spending – insights from coach practitioners

Retailers

Staying grounded during Black Friday and festive season spending – insights from coach practitioners

Issued by SACAP 26 Nov 2025

30 years of iPendoring: Celebrating language, culture, and creativity in South Africa

Pendoring

30 years of iPendoring: Celebrating language, culture, and creativity in South Africa

3 days

Following last month’s ACA Effie Awards, Gillian Rightford, executive director, shares her thoughts on the Awards (Image: Bizcommunity)

Effie Awards

#EffieAwards2025 | Gillian Rightford: The Alchemy of Effectiveness

3 days

#Effies2025 | Sanlam's F-Show breaks through the finance category

Effie Awards

#Effies2025 | Sanlam's F-Show breaks through the finance category

Danette Breitenbach 26 Nov 2025

#Effies2025 | TBWA's City Lodge's SOS Grand Effie campaign

Effie Awards

#Effies2025 | TBWA's City Lodge's SOS Grand Effie campaign

Danette Breitenbach 26 Nov 2025

Podcasts

Why culture drives brand relevance – dentsu’s X-Rated Conversation

Issued by Dentsu 26 Nov 2025

Artificial Intelligence

A backlash against AI imagery in ads may have begun as brands promote ‘human-made'

Paul Harrison 26 Nov 2025

Branding

Adobe bets $1.9bn on brand visibility, acquiring Semrush

25 Nov 2025

Commercial & Industrial

Mazda unveils ‘first’ bubble billboard in SA to support brand campaign

25 Nov 2025

#Orchids&Onions: Illegal billboards, brilliant billboards and a very strange unicorn

#OrchidsandOnions

#Orchids&Onions: Illegal billboards, brilliant billboards and a very strange unicorn

Brendan Seery 25 Nov 2025

Effie College announces inaugural South African winners

Education

Effie College announces inaugural South African winners

Issued by Association for Communication and Advertising 25 Nov 2025

One Show 2026 reduces entry fees for 8 countries

The One Club for Creativity

One Show 2026 reduces entry fees for 8 countries

25 Nov 2025

Small businesses urged to treat Black Friday as a visibility moment, not a discount race

SMEs

Small businesses urged to treat Black Friday as a visibility moment, not a discount race

Sudir Sahadeo, Issued by Business Partners Limited 24 Nov 2025

Mark Read, former CEO of WPP, has been announced as the chairman of Kantar’s newly formed Board of Directors (Image source: © Kantar Media )

Media

Mark Read's next move announced

24 Nov 2025

Blackweek has announced Johannesburg as the location for the inaugural African Edition in November 2026 (Image source: © Blackweek )

Advertising

Inaugural Blackweek Africa edition location announced

24 Nov 2025

Applications open for the 2026 ACA Women in Leadership Programme

DEI

Applications open for the 2026 ACA Women in Leadership Programme

Issued by Association for Communication and Advertising 24 Nov 2025

In the final session of the 2025 Marketing Masterclass series, industry leaders unpacked why safe, predictable advertising is failing and how entertainment, bold thinking and real consumer insight are the new keys to relevance. (Image Supplied)

Marketing

Marketing masterclass: Why “boring” brands are losing attention

24 Nov 2025

The partnership playbook: How strategic alliances are rewriting customer retention rules in SA

CRM, CX, UX

The partnership playbook: How strategic alliances are rewriting customer retention rules in SA

Michelle Geere, Issued by AdBot 21 Nov 2025

alcohol advertising is more regulated than people think, says Angela Russel, CEO of the Drinks Federation of South Africa (Image source: © 123rf )

Advertising

Alcohol advertising: Accountability not aspirational, but actionable

Angela Russel 21 Nov 2025

Ogilvy and SAB Carling Black Label 2023 winners of the IAS-sponsored FM AdFocus Partnership Award (Image: Source © AdFocus Awards )

Advertising

FM AdFocus Awards 2025: The power of partnership in a changing industry

21 Nov 2025

Ogilvy crowned Most Effective Agency at the 2025 Assegai Direct Marketing Awards

Direct Marketing

Ogilvy crowned Most Effective Agency at the 2025 Assegai Direct Marketing Awards

Issued by Ogilvy South Africa 20 Nov 2025

Andrea Diquez is global CEO at GUT. Source: Supplied.

Advertising

New York Festivals taps Andrea Diquez to head 2026 jury

20 Nov 2025

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Ethics & Medicolegal

SAHPRA issues warning over illegal marketing and sale of GLP-1s

20 Nov 2025

TikTok launches exclusive TikTok Insiders programme to accelerate agency growth in South Africa

Social Media

TikTok launches exclusive TikTok Insiders programme to accelerate agency growth in South Africa

Issued by TikTok 20 Nov 2025

Lobengula Advertising proves the importance of employee marketing with winning 5 Assegai Awards

Direct Marketing

Lobengula Advertising proves the importance of employee marketing with winning 5 Assegai Awards

Issued by Lobengula Advertising 18 Nov 2025

Influence or illusion

Marketing

Influence or illusion

Jonty Fisher, Issued by Publicis Groupe Africa 18 Nov 2025

Advertising

Havas denies talks with WPP

Karabo Ledwaba 18 Nov 2025

10 marketing trends for 2026

Marketing

10 marketing trends for 2026

Issued by Kantar 18 Nov 2025

Advertising

Why people trust influencers more than brands – and what that means for the future of marketing

Kelley Cours Anderson 18 Nov 2025

Why South African thought leaders love the Business Talk podcast

Media

Why South African thought leaders love the Business Talk podcast

Issued by Broad Media 18 Nov 2025

Lessons from the Runway: What advertising can learn from the fashion industry

FMCG

Lessons from the Runway: What advertising can learn from the fashion industry

Issued by Ebony+Ivory 17 Nov 2025

Caxton launches new integrated media solution with unrivalled reach

Media

Caxton launches new integrated media solution with unrivalled reach

Issued by Caxton Media 17 Nov 2025

Advertising

ComStrat - The bridge between brand strategy and media strategy

Issued by Advertising Media Forum 17 Nov 2025

Makazole Mapimpi leads J.C. Le Roux’s sparkling new campaign

Advertising

Makazole Mapimpi leads J.C. Le Roux’s sparkling new campaign

17 Nov 2025

Media

South Africa needs to rethink its community media policy - 4 ways to close the gaps

Franz Krüger 17 Nov 2025

Marketing

arena infosolution

17 Nov 2025

Advertising

Nando’s Oh What a Place!: From category noise to cultural signal

14 Nov 2025

A screenshot of the advertisement on YouTube Shorts.

Advertising

Energy drink in hot water over 'drinking and driving' ad

Karabo Ledwaba 14 Nov 2025

Ogilvy South Africa and Yum! took the top industry honours at the Marketing and Media Alliance sub-Saharan Africa's 2025 Smarties (image supplied)

Marketing

Ogilvy and Yum! take top honours at MMA SSA Smarties

14 Nov 2025

PR vs marketing: How can PR elevate your small business?

SMEs

PR vs marketing: How can PR elevate your small business?

Jeremy Lang, Issued by Business Partners Limited 13 Nov 2025

Understanding the growing emotional drivers behind consumer choice

FMCG

Understanding the growing emotional drivers behind consumer choice

Issued by TLC Worldwide Africa 13 Nov 2025

The final Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry report (MDPMI) has been released (Source: © 123rf )

Media

MDPMI report released; Google commits R688m to SA media

13 Nov 2025

The Undercover Ad is a campaign of AI-generated songs which are secretly advertisements that don’t sound like advertisements at all (Image supplied)

Advertising

#BehindtheCampaign: The Undercover Ad

13 Nov 2025

In 2026, there will be changes to the Cannes Lions Awards (Image source: © Bizcommunity)

Cannes Lions

#CannesLions2026: A new Creative Brand Lions and other changes

13 Nov 2025