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Creative Spark appoints Tanja Lategan as new MD
Digital Agency Creative Spark today announced the appointment of new Managing Director, Tanja Lategan, who will steer the digital agency through its next phase of growth and ramp up the company’s integrated marketing offering. Creative Spark, acquired by the M&C Saatchi Group in 2015, is a Johannesburg and Cape Town-based specialist digital agency partnering with... Continue reading→
Marketing in a Technical Recession
By: John Faia, GM: Mall Ads™ One of the burning issues at the moment is that we are in a technical recession. Any marketer would be forgiven for getting a fright: “recession” is one of those economic terms that strikes fear into the heart of the consumer, affecting the consumer mindset and spilling over,... Continue reading→
Canal Walk reinventing the shopping experience
If there’s any shopping destination that takes shopping seriously, it’s Canal Walk. Not only do global brands flock to the centre, but shoppers from all over the world come to appreciate the grandeur and beauty of Canal Walk Shopping Centre. Known as one of Africa’s leading retail, leisure and entertainment destinations, in the heart of Century... Continue reading→
Primedia Unlimited’s Bionic rewarded by Facebook
Facebook Marketing Partners has identified Bionic, powered in sub-Sahara by Primedia Unlimited, as its 2017 Innovation Spotlight Award winner in the Omnichannel: Online and Offline Sales category. The awards call for the year’s most exciting new technologies built on Facebook’s Application Programming Interface (API) to solve marketing challenges. “Bionic is a platform designed to manage and... Continue reading→
Brand Union develops Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra’s new brand identity
By Mathew Weiss: Managing Director of Brand Union Africa As I sat there enjoying Olga Kern’s virtuoso rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1, I felt immensely proud to have contributed, in a small way, to the relaunch of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO). Brand Union, the company I lead, had developed the new brand identity. The... Continue reading→
Platinum Seed partners with Brightplan
San Francisco-based Brightplan has appointed leading South African digital creative consultancy Platinum Seed as its digital partner, preferring the local agency over others. The partnership will kick off with Platinum designing and developing the user-experience and user interface for BrightPlan’s launch website. They will also be responsible for developing a go-to-market strategy for the product,... Continue reading→
Vega students elected to sit on BCSA’s first student council
Vega, a brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE), is proud to announce that 11 of its students will form the Brand Council South Africa (BCSA) Student Council, which will contribute towards the BCSA’s vision of creating a unified voice for the professional branding community in South Africa. The BCSA Student Council is... Continue reading→
The future of creative innovation and technology takes centre stage
With its bold and daring theme of ‘brave tech hearts beat as one’ the 2017 Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival will once again pioneer uniquely African technology and creativity in an electrifying ten-day programme, from 6 to 16 September, to showcase the power of innovative collaboration. This year’s festival once again promises a unique, fresh... Continue reading→
Top 4 ways to win with archetypes on Instagram
By Hannah Robbins, Cultural Insight team in the UK. Brand archetypes used to be expressed through packaging, communications and websites. But the touchpoints for brands are increasing; through visual social media such as Instagram, businesses are finding that they need new ways to keep their brands engaging and consistent to have a strong and distinctive... Continue reading→
A History of Women in Advertising
By: Keshia Patchiappen, Condriac CEO In a highly transformative and evolving industry, the South African advertising landscape is not as representative as one would expect from such a progressive and diverse nation. Digital marketing in South Africa is still demonstrating an imbalanced gender dynamic. In an industry where 45% of the workplace is female, a... Continue reading→