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Walter Pike's Bio
Walter Pike
Walter Pike

More than 30 years of experience in branding, marketing and advertising and an international thought leader on social media and digital marketing.

The ex Head of Faculty: Marketing and Advertising, at the AAA School of Advertising (the leading Ad school on the continent), the founder of the Digital Marketing Academy, the first in the world to be accredited by Google, a member of the international chief marketing officers council advisory committee. Senior experience in leading Advertising Agencies and local and international corporates. Experience in wide range of markets both B2B and consumer markets.

A commentator on CNBC, SABC TV, and Summit TV, SABC Radio and with a regular spot on the Internet Economy on Classic FM. 

Frequent guest on the Beancast network, the top marketing podcast in USA and PiKE's Thinking . . . the South African marketing podcast.

Professional speaker, social media coach to executive management, blogger, writer social media participant and on of 0.2% of the worldwide twitter population regarded as Highly influential.

An in depth practical understanding of marketing in both the new and the old world provides a unique trusted perspective in moving brands into the new world.

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Walter Pike

Walter Pike
A marketing maven this right brained thinker, writer, speaker, consultant and teacher is able to  bring sense to the fast moving world of technology and marketing.
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Pike's Thinking

PiKE's Thinking ...
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    Cell C has launched an 'Astroturfing' campaign - some of my thoughts about it.
  • What FIFA has got 100% right, and most other sports 100% wrong.
    There is a massive difference between pro and amateur sport. A distinction lost on most spectators and huge amount of sports administrators. Most spectators and viewers honestly believe that when you are watching Arsenal and Chelsea play football or England play Australia in the ashes that they are watching a...
  • No way should football be ashamed over the Suárez incident.
    PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images Luis Suárez saved a certain goal in the World Cup by handling the ball while he stood on the goal line. In the microsecond he had he went with his instinct and prevented the ball going into the net by batting it out with his hands. That...
  • We are going to need artists.
    In a lecture room in Johannesburg on Wednesday, I finished my class with a slide with only strange square image that looked like a haphazardly coloured in chessboard. The title on the slide was “Your class assignment.” For the past 6 days I had been running a workshop with 38...
  • Internet causing newspaper blindness!
    The newspaper industry is doing exactly the wrong thing to ensure its survival. Its a classic case of marketing myopia in a golden age for news.

Walter's Bio

A marketing maven this right brained thinker, writer, speaker, consultant and teacher is able to  bring sense to the fast moving world of technology and marketing.

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