by Lebogang Tshetlo & Charles Mathews. A critical part of transformation is figuring out how to deal with hardship and struggle. This skill is called resilience, and it may be learned, as Fezile Dhlamini did.
Author archives: Simone Puterman
Q5: Winning as working moms, with Alisha Ramasar [interview]
by Carey Finn The co-director of Hello A-list speaks about running a brand agency focused on empowering the youth while raising children herself.
“2020” — WTF?!
by Leigh Tayler. As each day of 2020 ticks by, it seems a new WTF?! moment springs up like some sort of grotesque jack-in-the-box.
Hard Relate: Creatures of habit #coronavirusSA
by David Alves. Day… 4965 of lockdown and has anything changed in the media and advertising environment, you may ask?
MarkLives #AdChamps of the Month [Jul 2020]
by Kyle de Waal & Morgan Botha. Our latest choice of SA ad campaigns: Drive Local, Three Word Stories, Faces of Change, Roadblock, and Seriously Responsible.
Thinking B2B: B2B marketing in a recession
by Warren Moss. Every conversation I have with a CMO or marketing director lately concerns how a B2B business should be looking at marketing its product or service in the face of a recession.
Q5: Monalisa Zwambila on PR, present and post-pandemic [interview]
by Carey Finn. The Riverbed Agency founder and CEO talks about the shape of PR during and after the pandemic.
#AdForumSummit: More acquisitions planned — Accenture Interactive
by Johanna McDowell. Much expansion is planned for Accenture Interactive, with more acquisitions in key markets.
#Transformers: A brave new remote-working world
by Charlie Mathews & Kyle de Waal. The big lesson that has come from covid-19 is how adaptable people are, and how transformation is critical to becoming #FutureFit.
Clover, your advertising is misguided
by Jarred Cinman. Permit me a moment of rare sanctimony for adland, if you will: this kind of lazy, unwise, poorly executed and embarrassing work demeans us all.