The positive news, is we are making progress

ACA Board of Directors and Executive for 2019/20 AnnouncedThe new Board of Directors of the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) for the 2019/2020 fiscal were elected at the 72nd Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 25th July at the AAA School of...

Winners of the 2019 APEX awards and the end of an era announcedThe highly anticipated annual APEX events were held on the 11th July in Johannesburg, where the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) hosted the NeXt Level of Thinking Masterclass in the...

Twenty Copywriting bursaries to be provided through new advertising industry initiativeThe official industry body for the advertising profession, the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) has secured funding toward providing twenty academic bursaries to...

Ticket sales for the APEX 2019 events are openThe Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) is pleased to announce that ticket sales have opened for the 2019 APEX awards events being held on Thursday 11th July, 2019. This year the events will be held at the...

Jury for the 2019 APEX awards announcedDrawn from strategy, digital, creative, research, media, marketing as well as agency heads, the 2019 APEX award adjudication panel consists of highly regarded individuals and industry trail blazers. The group is tasked with the...

First ACA ‘Future Ballers’ event a resounding successThere is a myth about age discrimination in advertising. Some say that while ‘ageism’ exists in all industries, in advertising it appears to be on ‘steroids’. It is true that if you look at the industry fleetingly,...

#BUDGET2019: The ALOE in the roomMathe Okaba, CEO of the ACA looks at the 2019 Budget and what the communication and advertising sector can learn from it. In his first budget speech as Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni provided the country with some insight into how...

APEX 2019 – Call for EntriesThe Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) is pleased to announce that the 2019 APEX awards season is officially open for entry. The annual APEX awards is hosted by the ACA, the official representative body for the...

Advertising Regulatory Board launchesThis week, the Advertising Regulatory Board formally started work from their offices in the Market Research Foundation  building in Bryanston which is also home to MASA. The ARB takes over the work of administering the Code of...

Mathe Okaba named new CEO of the ACAMathe Okaba has been appointed to the position of CEO of the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA), the official industry body for the advertising profession in South Africa. Her appointment follows a rigorous and...