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Beautiful News South Africa year in review
On 31 October 2017, Beautiful News, a unique content marketing platfrom, will have achieved its altruistic target of sharing 365 uplifting short films in one year about the positive South African experience. The project reached over 500 million across all platforms over the first three quarters alone. Beautiful News South Africa is an unprecedented content marketing platform created by Ginkgo Agency,... Continue reading→
Jupiter CT Take Home A Gold At The MMA EMEA Smarties Aards
The BURGER KING SA #Swhopper campaign firm favourite for judge. Recognising the importance of creativity in the mobile marketing industry, the MMA EMEA Smarties Awards were held in Istanbul, Turkey, 26 October 2017. The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town was awarded a Gold in the Promotion category for its #SWHOPPER campaign for BURGER KING® South Africa. BURGER KING® SA asked... Continue reading→
How junk status will affect your marketing
Marketers across South Africa are all asking how junk status will affect your marketing expenses. Here’s some tips to help you stretch your budget for maximum ROI. If you’re tearing your hair out, looking for ways to cope with budget cuts, and downsizing your marketing budget, you’ve come to the right place. Whenever the economy... Continue reading→
Scary facts – courtesy SPARK Media
SPARK Media provides us with some ‘Scary Facts’, just in time for Halloween, with insights from their ROOTS 2016 survey.
LOLA MullenLowe, Madrid creates BURGER KING® scary video for Halloween
Clowns are the third most sought after Halloween costume of 2017. With this in mind, BURGER KING® has created Scary Clown Night. This Halloween, the BURGER KING® restaurant on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town will be full of frightening clowns eating flame grilled WHOPPER® sandwiches and Halloween will never be the same. To participate in... Continue reading→
Vega students selected as finalists in SA’s biggest design challenges
Submissions from seven students at Vega -a brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE) have made it to the final rounds of two of the country’s most prestigious design challenges, with four projects selected as finalists in the Pendoring 2017 awards, and three in the IPSA Gold Pack 2017 awards. Students selected as... Continue reading→
IAS Masterclass – Digital Landscape
Digital Landscape Overview – South Africa and Globally If a fully integrated digital agency with creative, strategic and production capabilities is what marketers are looking for in South Africa,* how should a marketer be certain to find what they need in the current, complex digital agency environment? Join us as we demystify the digital... Continue reading→
Budgeting for Great Video
According to media agency Zenith statistics, global consumers spend an average of 47 minutes a day watching videos online, 29 minutes of which is on mobile devices. It is becoming more likely that a viewer will see an award-winning or viral video for the first time on a phone or computer screen before seeing it... Continue reading→
New Showmax ad captures how we all share a love of stories
Star Films’ Jonathan Parkinson directed the heart-warming new Showmax ad about a grandfather trying to connect with his granddaughter, written by Showmax’s creative team. The ad has charmed South Africa’s normally cynical Twittersphere: when media personality Anele Mdoda tweeted that it was “so cute,” her followers responded with their own stories of how the ad... Continue reading→
Ads24 is proud to announce the winner of its #Ads24diski mass market activation
Ads24 is proud to announce Rudie Brits, from OMD Johannesburg, as the winner of its popular online Diski competition, which was live on its website for the month of September. The competition was launched as part of a Kasi Flava series of activations in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, which served to highlight the opportunities... Continue reading→