Edelman Africa has launched its Regional Advisory (ERA) team, comprised of senior industry veterans and communications advisors spread across north, east, west, central and southern Africa to assist existing and potential clients in building their businesses and navigating the continent. 

WARC Awards for Effectiveness 2025, in association with LIONS, has announced the 2025 Grand Prix winners. The awards honour the best marketing campaigns from across the globe that deliver strategic brilliance and effective impact to drive commercial success.

Career stagnation is a quiet killer in the creative industry. One moment, you're buzzing with ideas and pushing boundaries. The next, you're stuck delivering the same kind of work, unsure when or how things started to feel … flat, says Sarah Griffiths, Head of Marketing at Red & Yellow Creative School of Business.  

Keen to know what makes a pop-up activation successful? Saads Abrahams from media update spoke to Grant Macpherson, Chief Marketing Officer of KFC Africa, to discuss the secret recipe behind Kentucky Town's success.

What if your brand was the first thing people saw when they turned on their smart TV? That moment is now prime real estate, says Leslie Adams, Sales Director at Reach Africa. 

The beautiful game and the often-cutthroat world of corporate leadership may seem worlds apart, but recent events at Orlando Pirates FC offer a stark lesson in reputation management that any corporate company would do well to heed, says Mulalo Mathelemusa, Account Director at Weber Shandwick. 

In honour of International Nurses Day, celebrated annually on 12 May, Reach For A Dream has honoured more than 800 nurses from partner hospitals across South Africa who help make dreams come true for children living with life-threatening illnesses. 

VML South Africa has garnered 17 wins across multiple categories at the 2025 MMA SMARTIES Awards, including six Gold awards, five Silver awards and six Bronze awards — and the title of Agency of the Year for South Africa.

RAPT has announced that its Group Divisional Head of PR and Influencer Partnerships, Khangi Dziba, has been appointed to the 2025 Cannes Lions shortlisting jury in the PR category, making Dziba the only South African in this discipline.

The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) has announced the launch of GenEra — an evolution of its former Future Ballers platform. Created for advertising and communications professionals with up to five years of experience, the ACA says GenEra is where ambition meets innovation. It's a space designed to connect, inspire and grow a new generation of industry shapers.