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Creative is the key to effective OOH
Often the most strikingly visible part of our environment, advertising can enlivena city and add something vital to one’s early-morning commute. While not every ad can light up an urban precinct like the immersive displays Samsung used in New York’s Times Square to debut its S8 and S8+, or thrill onlookers like Toyota’s 100-foot-tall billboard... Continue reading→
Boomtown #filledourstadium for the Southern Kings
The recent #fillourstadium campaign for the Southern Kings created did just that, as well as increasing awareness of the Southern Kings’ games and forging support for local rugby. Running from April 22nd through to May 22nd, Boomtown created an eye-catching campaign creative, and a social media campaign that gained local and national momentum. Piggy-backing on... Continue reading→
Seed Academy release results of SA’s largest entrepreneurial survey
Youth entrepreneurship, access to funding and markets remain key challenges More impactful business development support that provides entrepreneurs with robust business basics is needed to increase small business success rates, while a decline in youth owned businesses has emerged as cause for concern given South Africa’s dire unemployment figures. These are just some of the... Continue reading→
PAMS – the innovative Reading currency
With PAMS (Publisher Audience Measure Survey) in field this month, the PRC (Publisher Research Council) discusses the advantages of the survey’s inclusion of brands, large sample size, innovative flooding technique, multi-platform measurement and other highlights. The purpose of PAMS is to provide an innovative “Gold Standard” Reader Audience Measurement founded on global best-practice and local... Continue reading→
Creativity was, is and will always be ‘Good For Business’
Creativity was, is and will always be ‘good for business’. Long live creative awards, and long live the agencies that enter them. This is the opinion of FCB Africa CEO, Brett Morris, who said that it’s hard to think of a way in which creativity is not good for any business, as it is arguably... Continue reading→
Santam’s new television commercial asks “what could go wrong?”
We live in interesting times. Influenced by advances in science and technology, the world is undergoing significant change, modifying how and where we live, as global climate change becomes a certainty. It’s the age of invention. Artificial Intelligence is a part of life, cars are driving themselves, drones are delivering our food and our homes... Continue reading→
Students create interactive walls to promote positivity in South Africa
There’s always room for a good dose of positivity to lift our spirits and unite us all as South Africans. Two teams of students from Vega, a brand of The Independent Institute of Education (IIE), set out to do just that at this year’s Walk the Talk, with interactive installations designed to encourage positivity and... Continue reading→
IAS Masterclass – Loeries Durban
How Clients and Agencies can Adapt, Evolve and be Future-Fit for the Inevitable Digital Disruption An interactive session facilitated by Johanna McDowell, CEO of IAS, with Mike Schalit, CCO of BBDO South Africa, Gau Narayan, Regional Director for BBDO Africa and Selvin Govender, Marketing Director, Mercedes Benz South Africa. Date: Thursday 17 August 2017 Time: ... Continue reading→
PMG Achieves Level 1 BBEEE Accreditation
Leading out-of-home company Provantage Media Group is proud to announce that they have just been awarded a Level 1 B-BBEE rating by Grant Thornton – the highest BEE rating achievable. This makes Provantage one of the largest OOH media companies to have achieved a Level 1 rating and one of a small group of enterprise... Continue reading→
FCB Joburg MD meets Aluwani fundraisers at Vic Falls
FCB Joburg Managing Director, Thabang Skwambane, has joined former Aluwani interns, Warren Handley and Tom David, at Victoria Falls for a few days of their epic journey on foot from Kilimanjaro to Johannesburg. Handley and David have climbed Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, and are currently walking the more than 6000km back to Johannesburg,... Continue reading→