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"New Business Day ad spoofs Guptagate" - MarkLives

And four other great media and marketing reads on the website this week including...

New Business Day ad spoofs Guptagate

Business Day has taken aim at the Guptagate scandal in the latest ad in its ‘Understand your country, or lose it' campaign.

South Africa's cellular network providers are holding us to ransom

It wasn't easy finding an industry less consumer-friendly than South Africa's financial services industry when it comes to the use of legalese - no, no, no, no. Silly me. It was a piece of pie.

Fake traffic could cost advertisers $9.5 billion this year

In the first quarter of 2013, Solve reports that the amount of suspicious web advertising traffic has risen from 43% to 46%.

Finweek drops adland coverage

Finweek will no longer be carrying its regular advertising and marketing pages edited by veteran marketing journalist Tony Koenderman.

Loeries & Pendoring: not quite a post-mortem.

A post-mortem on the South African ad industry gathering in Cape Town 20-22 Sept 2013, starting with the Pendoring Awards and continuing with the Loeries.

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