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  • Digital Insights Bulletin – October 2024

    October 31, 2024

    Latest insights - October 2024 In this October edition of our Digital Insights Bulletin, we bring you the latest trends, insights, and updates crucial for navigating the digital landscape. LinkedIn Introduces Lead Generation Option for Boosted Posts LinkedIn has introduced a new lead generation objective for boosted posts, allowing users to select "Lead Generation" when promoting content. This feature simplifies ad setup by enabling budget and targeting options alongside a lead form template. While it's...

  • Sharon Piehl Wins 32nd Annual John D. Graham Award for Excellence

    October 25, 2024

    Each year, since its inception in 1991, the John D. Graham Award for Excellence is awarded globally to an individual who exemplifies the culture, the spirit and the energy of our great firm. We’re thrilled to announce that Sharon Piehl, Senior Partner and Managing Director of FleishmanHillard South Africa , has been honoured with this prestigious award. Sharon’s unwavering commitment, drive, and agency-first approach truly embody the values this award represents. In a first for...

  • Digital Insights Bulletin – September 2024

    September 30, 2024

    Latest insights - September 2024 In this September edition of our Digital Insights Bulletin, we bring you the latest trends, insights, and updates crucial for navigating the digital landscape. YouTube Unveils a Range of New Features at Its ‘Made On’ Event YouTube recently announced several exciting updates at its "Made on YouTube" event, including new AI video generation tools integrated into YouTube Shorts through Google’s Veo, allowing creators to generate 6-second clips. Other highlights include...

  • Prism Awards 2024: Intentional communication that shifted the needle

    September 25, 2024

    We're incredibly proud to share that FleishmanHillard SA took home not one, but TWO awards at the PRISM Awards 2024! 🏆 🏅 Silver for the Philips Future Health Index 2023 in the B2B Publishing category. 🥉 Bronze for the Momentum Health Solutions NHI Thought Leadership Profiling in the Thought Leadership Profiling category. This is a huge recognition of our commitment to impactful healthcare communications and thought leadership. Shoutout to our amazing team and clients for making this possible!...

  • Digital Insights Bulletin – August 2024

    August 31, 2024

    Hello from our team to yours! Latest insights - August 2024 In this August edition of our Digital Insights Bulletin, we bring you the latest trends, insights, and updates crucial for navigating the digital landscape. Our spotlight this month is on Meta's replacement of CrowdTangle with a less effective tool and how this poses challenges for misinformation tracking. Dig in! Meta just closed a vital online research tool. It’s bad news for the fight against...

  • Digital Insights Bulletin – July 2024

    July 30, 2024

    Hello from our team to yours! Latest insights - July 2024 In this July edition of our Digital Insights Bulletin, we bring you the latest trends, insights, and updates crucial for navigating the digital landscape. Our spotlight shines brightly on LinkedIn, a platform that has dominated discussions and strategies across the industry. LinkedIn’s Rolling Out a New Sponsored Post Option to Maximise Content Benefits LinkedIn is expanding its sponsored articles feature to include sponsored newsletters...

  • Sabre Awards Africa 2023

    April 20, 2023

    We're incredibly proud of the work we achieved and in particular, we're excited to announce the following awards: Sabre Awards Africa 2023 Certificates of Excellence for the following work: Business-To-Business Marketing - Kerry Taste Manufacturing Facility Launch in Hammarsdale — Kerry with FleishmanHillard Media Relations: HMD Global Differentiated Media Relations — HMD Global, home of Nokia phones with FleishmanHillard Not for Profit/Charities: Speak Up Campaign — TEARS Foundation with FleishmanHillard Technology: HMD Global Nokia T20 Tablet Launch — HMD Global, home of Nokia...

  • The metaverse – Is it important for your business?

    June 2, 2022

    The metaverse – Is it important for your business? The metaverse is the latest in a string of buzzwords that has captured the imagination of the public. While internet fads will come and go (like hairstyles and fashions), it may be difficult to know which ones to ignore, and which ones will become table stakes. After all, many businesses believed social media just a craze. So then, do you need the metaverse to make your...

  • First Year At A Job And It Had To Be 2020!

    June 11, 2021

    Author: Zinhle Msibi Most people will agree the year 2020 is in the running to be claimed the worst year in modern history.  The year that felt like a test we didn’t study for, the year that had people stocking up on copious amounts of toilet paper, the year that changed our ways of working and for me the year that changed how I started a new job. Starting a new job can be nerve-racking...

  • PR trends accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic

    February 19, 2021

    By Cecily McLane, Account Director at FleishmanHillard When some of us rang in the 2020 new year with loud cheers, raised glasses and ‘twenty plenty’ slogans posted across social media, we could not have foreseen how rapidly the world would change. Certain industries had to adjust and find new ways of working to adapt to their changing environment. One could go as far as to say that the PR industry is among the most agile...