Changing the status quo for women working in the production side of the advertising industry is at the heart of new company launched by the DUKE Group this week.
Duchess
is a 100% black female-owned, Level 1 B-BBEE-compliant, full-service
production facilitator. In the words of DUKE CEO, Wayne Naidoo, it is “a powerful,
female-owned and managed business that exists to meet the production, media,
social, economic and cultural landscape”.
Headed
by 25-year production stalwart, Nino Naidoo, Duchess addresses what she calls
“a lack of female talent in our industry”.
“For as long as I’ve been working, I have always had discussions around how to create opportunities for women in the industry in a more structured manner,” Naidoo told The Media Online. “Duchess is, ultimately, the platform to do so. Duchess is about opening a door and creating a space where skilled women of colour in our industry can shine and do what they do best, thus making it possible for tr
This week’s BIG move:
Novus Group delivers media insights on your phone
Media monitoring and
analysis company Novus Group has launched an app that will
deliver time sensitive media monitoring alerts and content directly to its
client’s mobile devices, wherever they are.
The app was developed in
response to the growing trend of remote working, allowing agency and corporate
clients to make informed decisions that could impact their business, in or out
of the office.
Novus Group director, Joe
Hamman, said the ability to monitor broadcast, online, print and social media
was a key tool for executives, marketing and PR professionals to gain insights