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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→
Britehouse app records The Longest Hole Mongolia Adventure
Britehouse, a division of Dimension Data, has created a bold, agile application that will be used to track, keep score, and record images for a World Record attempt at The Longest Hole Mongolia Adventure. 1 country, 1 golfer, 1 caddie, 82 days, 1850km, Par 14, 000 and 1 extreme charity golf adventure. When you think... Continue reading→
Top four ways brands can win with a political stance
Trump. Brexit. The refugee crisis. Franco-German calls for European unity. Ongoing terrorist atrocities. Russian involvement in the US elections. The referendum in Turkey. The rise of Populism. It’s been an intense year for global politics, with political, social and ideological differences reaching boiling point. In the midst of a seismic change in global politics, marketers... Continue reading→
Top SA Creative Philip Ireland Joins BNRY as ECD
Philip Ireland, one of South Africa’s top advertising creatives and co-founder of Ireland/Davenport, has joined local creative technology company BNRY as Executive Creative Director. It may seem an unlikely mix – an award-winning, above-the-line creative and a below-the-radar outfit that fiercely resists being called an ‘agency’ or a ‘consultancy’. But therein lies the magic, says... Continue reading→
Western Cape Government’s Safely Home Video Created by FCB Cape Town Goes Viral
A video created by FCB Cape Town for the Western Cape Government’s Department of Transport and Public Works’ Safely Home campaign has gone viral and ignited social media platforms around the world. It has over 30 million views on the Daily Mail Online site alone. It has also been picked up and shared by traffic... Continue reading→
Vennduke Chigumba joins Brand Union as senior strategist
Brand Union Africa welcomes Vennduke Chigumba in his recent appointment as senior strategist in the Johannesburg agency. Describing himself as ‘a hard working, young African with a fresh mind and a curious nature for marketing and brand strategy,’ Vennduke has an ambition to grow. He earned his BA (honours) for Brand Management at Vega School and a... Continue reading→
TLC and Hubble partner on dynamic new digital platform in Uber vehicles
Indoor media advertising specialists and Primedia Unlimited subsidiary, TLC, has partnered with Hubble, Uber’s in-vehicle interactive entertainment partner, to sell video content advertising on their platform. “TLC has the exclusive rights to sell high viewability video on Hubble’s interactive touch screens in Uber vehicles,” says Greg Bruwer, TLC’s Managing Director. “It’s an ideal platform on which... Continue reading→