Latest Industry News
Share of pocket: brand adaption for the mass market
By FMCG specialist Estee Cockcroft of Boomtown. During a recent brand emersion exercise, I spoke to a highly articulated, entrepreneurial, tavern owner in one of the local townships. Wearing a page boy hat, denim shirt and slick leather shoes he looked wildly out of place on a dilapidated wooden bench in the dirt street outside... Continue reading→
Cheryl Reddy Appointed to Ogilvy Public Relations Board
Ogilvy Public Relations has announced the appointment of Cheryl Reddy to its board of directors. Reddy – who has been with the agency since 2011 – is currently a Business Director and lead for the agency’s corporate practice. Reddy holds a BTech degree in Journalism and a Marketing Management diploma. She has 10 years of... Continue reading→
The importance of creative in today’s data driven marketing industry
Nineve Van Zyl, Design Lead at Sprout, shares some guidelines on what to consider when crafting compelling and effective programmatic display creatives. The majority of browsers visiting an e-commerce website don’t convert on their first visit. There are several reasons for this, but none as critical as context, i.e. understanding where in the customer journey... Continue reading→
Internal hires see creatives realise their possibility
Boomtown is pleased to announce the promotion of Nick de Beer to Creative Group Head, and Lara-Anne Derbyshire moves from Creative Group Head to Strategist. To fulfill client demand, Boomtown needed to secure the talent to expand the teams’ skill set and man-hours, Andrew MacKenzie, Boomtown MD explains: “Lara-Anne’s studies in psychology, her decade of... Continue reading→
Darling campaign captures women’s imagination and blows up on social media
#DarlingBigThankYous goes viral A recent Darling social-media campaign #DarlingBigThankYous honours the selfless women who drive our society, has gone viral on social media. Conceptualized and executed in conjunction with Conversation Lab, the campaign video has 2 324 521 views and earned 3 647 shares on Facebook, since its launch, three weeks ago. The #DarlingBigThankYous campaign... Continue reading→
Reach 372 900 business minded people through targeted impressions
Amongst many other target groups, SPARK Media’s ignition TARGET has got the ‘business minded’ market covered. The company’s programmatic and direct audience solution through the utilisation of their Data Management Platform (DMP), has the capability to collect and deliver relevant, customised Interest Based Audiences. “An Interest Based Audience is a group of consumers who are... Continue reading→
DUKE creates new TVC for Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Salt Reduction Campaign
The Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa (HSFSA) conjures up sombre images of heart disease, strokes and other dreaded illnesses. That’s precisely why ad agency DUKE chose a light-hearted, entertaining approach for their latest TV commercial for the non-profit organisation’s salt reduction campaign which launched the first week of September’s Heart Awareness Month. Conceptualised... Continue reading→
An industry compromised by in-house production companies
by Bobby Amm, executive officer of the Commercial Producers Association of South Africa (CPA) An ad agency’s In-House Production Company (IHPC) can be a tempting choice when looking for a commercial producer. With the ‘lower costs’ and the convenience of a single supplier, most business people would consider it, especially when production costs are so... Continue reading→
Vega and Orange Academy team up in Lagos for a brand building match made in heaven
Teamwork certainly does make the dream work, if the recent collaboration between Vega, an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE), and Orange Academy Nigeria is anything to go by. While many organisations consider it counter-intuitive to work with ‘competitors’, Vega and Orange Academy proved that collaboration is vital for business and... Continue reading→
Sprout’s growth calls for a digital operations director
With more than 15 years’ experience as a marketing manager and client service professional, Ulrike du Toit has joined Sprout Performance Media as digital operations director this month. The programmatic media buying agency has been growing significantly since it was founded in 2013, and having Ulrike onboard will assist Sprout in optimising its service levels... Continue reading→