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Iconic Collective appoints Mitch Bowker
Iconic Collective has announced Mitch Bowker as its new chief operations officer. The appointment commenced on Sunday, 1 December. Prior to his appointment, Bowker was the managing director for Jawbone Brand Experiences. His previous positions include brand and marketing manager at Samsung and Nokia. -
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Iconic Collective welcomes Jawbone Brand Experiences
Iconic Collective CEO Dermot Lamiter has announced that Jawbone Brand Experiences has joined the group as the brand activations, event management, experiential marketing, customer experience, and exhibition management service offering division.
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Point acquires a 50% shareholding in the Iconic Media Group
Point, an industry leader in procurement, consultation and management of end-to-end marketing solutions, has teamed up with Iconic Media Group to create a unique and fully-integrated package for clients that aims to deliver efficient production. -
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Iconic Media Group partners with Customer Marketing Group
Customer Marketing Group (CMG) is Iconic Media Group’s new partner. CMG will offer strategy commercialisation, with a specialisation in delivering relevant, engaging stakeholder strategies that enhance the total customer experience to drive sustainable brand growth. -
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Here's why clients should choose independent agencies
Independent thinkers are always highly valued in the media and advertising world. After all, they're in the business of meeting a client's needs by delivering creative work. And it should go without saying that standalone agencies tend to attract different individuals.
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In this sacred text, Carla looks at all sorts of things, such as the latest movies (this probably won’t happen because she never watches anything that other people tell me to watch and therefore never sees the latest films, but we can keep hoping).
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2020 SOCIAL TRENDS YOU NEED TO KNOW
LET’S FACE IT. SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING IS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF CHANGE AND ADVERTISING HAS BECOME MORE AND MORE CHALLENGING. In the last year, the conversational data around the
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We are BACK AT IT. I got back two weeks ago to a relatively quiet start to the year, which was a nice change, however it all descended into chaos in
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The time has come. The time when all of our friends, family, acquaintances and colleagues all feel obliged to ruminate on the year that has past, and look forward to
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GUTEN TAG Fresh off the back of our company conference at the end of last week, I feel newly invigorated with the joy of work life. I’ve had blinkers on
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Sjoe. What a week. (have I said this every week for the past two months?) Well, it was. It’s now Monday morning and I am frantically trying to finish this,
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Ahoy, and welcome to what is now officially SILLY SEASON! As I type this, it is pouring with rain in Cape Town (and now I am in Durban and it
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Hello comrades (not sure why I went Soviet there – perhaps a reaction to capitalist NYC?) I am back from my travels, refreshed and have jumped right back into
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“Don’t call me, I’ll call you.” This is not – despite what those of you who know me might think – a plea for people to stop phoning me. I
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Hey guys, You may have noticed we skipped last week. I am sorry. Can you forgive me? I was quite sick and travelling and working on a number of different
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I don’t really know what to say about this week. It has been incredibly busy and a little frustrating. It was one of those hurry-up-and-wait weeks, where you mission to
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Welcome back to all you wonderful humans😊 It’s Friday and that means it’s THE COLLECTIVE DRIP TIME! And obviously (less exciting than my newsletter, but still a thrill) – the
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It's FRIIIIIDAAAYYYY! I’m in an exceptionally good mood today, mostly because it’s finally not raining in Cape Town, and the weather is perfectly crisp and still. This week I stuck
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