ST Benedict’s 100% Matric pass rate remains intact for 46th year! Recognising that the annual IEB National Senior Certificate exams results is the perfect opportunity to promote the school – St Benedict’s College embarked on a full scale publicity campaign to shout about its incredible 2020 matric pass rate. Despite the challenges of COVID-19 – […]
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Dan Berkowitz to judge on Grand Jury for the NYF Advertising Awards
HaveYouHeard Group Executive Creative Director, Dan Berkowitz, has been appointed as a judge for the 2021 New York Festivals Advertising Awards. Celebrating the exceptional and innovative content being created today, the New York Festivals runs six international awards competitions to honour and recognise the world’s best work across six different creative fields. They are the […]
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MetropolitanRepublic gives Eskort a brand refresh and celebrates a new visual language
Eskort has taken on a bold and colourful new look inspired by the country’s unique trading environments from the padstal on a lonely road winding past an isolated farm to the spaza squeezed in-between a cellphone repair shop and a hairdresser on a bustling square alongside a taxi rank. Under-pinning the heritage brand’s new look […]
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HaveYouHeard, the full-service brand and strategic agency which opened doors as influencer specialists before the phrase ‘influencer marketing’ became ‘a thing’, has added a 4th office to its network that already spans Cape Town, Johannesburg and London. The agency has merged with KwaZulu-Natal digital hotshop STIR, started by Kirsty Bisset nine years ago and will […]
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What’s next for our old friend the newspaper?
Marino Sigalas, Associate Director at The MediaShop The end has been coming for a long time. Newspaper circulations have been dwindling for years but COVID has exacerbated a shocking and sharp decline that I doubt many will recover from. Here’s a look at circulations from as far back as 1997. It’s clear that the heyday […]
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Virtual entry workshop for the 2021 Effie Awards
The 2021 Effie Awards South Africa season opens with virtual entry workshop on Tuesday, 23rd February. The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA), is pleased to announce that the very first Effie Awards South Africa will be held in 2021 following the postponement of the inaugural programme due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
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Influence+United aligns with HaveYouHeard to offer access to influencers in Africa
IZEA Worldwide Inc, a charter member of the worldwide influencer marketing alliance offering access to over 3-billion global citizens to modern brand marketers, Influence+United, has partnered with Cape Town head-quartered agency, HaveYouHeard, to expand its footprint on the African continent. According to IZEA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ted Murphy, Africa is a largely untapped […]
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FoxP2 ranks as Number 1 agency two years running
For the second year in a row, FoxP2 has been ranked as South Africa’s most creative agency on the medium-sized agency list, according to the Loeries Official Rankings 2020. In addition, it ranked 4th on the Overall Ranking by Agency – South Africa list and 6th on the Overall Africa & The Middle East list, […]
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Meta Media turns two!
Happy second birthday, Meta Media! This “curious” cultured, #SoWhat driven, full-service media agency opened their Johannesburg office doors in January 2019 and Cape Town in February 2019 and have flourished ever since. “Over the past two years we have continuously proved that we are the “so what” agency, consistently looking for the insights behind the […]
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The human face of mentorship, training and motivation in a pandemic
Claire Herman, Media Operations Lead at The MediaShop It is customary to move into a new year with optimism and a heightened level of energy and excitement, but as we move more into 2021 we are reminded of the lesson that 2020 taught us so well – the only constant in life is change, and […]
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