by Erna George. A Tom Fishburne cartoon made me wonder recently: is marketing losing its bravery?
Category archives: Featured
#Transformers: Tech, data & the looming privacy apocalypse [video]
by Charlie Mathews. In this interview, Arthur Goldstuck speaks about how technology is transforming marketing faster than ever before, and the coming privacy showdown.
Q5: Beyond the press release, with Sarit Tomlinson [interview]
by Carey Finn. The MD of Capacity Relations speaks to us about the changing nature of PR in SA — and how her agency has handled it.
Mission: The tipping point of inevitability #coronavirusSA
by Tom Fels. We’ve all borne witness to the phenomenon of the “tipping point” in our lifetime, never more so than now.
#TheInterlocker: The role for PR & comms in a shrinking media landscape
by Emma King. As PR and comms professionals, what does this mean for us? Lerato Tshabalala, Donald Kau and Libe Mohale respond.
#WritersBlock: Rather don’t email than email badly during covid-19
by Tiffany Markman. Here’s how to ensure that your organisation’s corona-era emails aren’t tonally insensitive, bandwagonny and opportunistic, incomprehensible, or just plain random.
Watched #coronavirusSA: Top 10 TV shows deciphered — Jun 2020
by Richard Lord. With more of the economy open and more people back at work in June 2020, we saw even further declines in TV audiences and time spent viewing.
Zeitgeist of Now: Privacy in today’s world & what it means for brands
by Jason Stewart. Less than a decade ago, privacy was easy to achieve — not so today.
#Transformers: Reinventing the creative self with Lebz Skywalker
by Charlie Mathews. MarkLives speaks to multimedia artist, Lebogang Tshetlo about his multiple transformations, and how he’s transmuted personal pain to find a new sense of self.
#Transformers: Entrepreneur transforms rejection into resilience
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.