Most small businesses are prioritizing advertising this year and will increase spending on social media advertising (56%) and other online advertising mediums such as Google search and banner ads (41%). Nearly all small businesses (91%) plan to invest more in advertising in 2019, according to a new survey from The Manifest, a business news and […]
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MullenLowe SA Tasked With Rolling Out Schick’s ‘The Man I am’ Campaign
MullenLowe South Africa recently added a new business win to its ever increasing portfolio of clients. The Schick account win builds on the agency’s personal care experience, and in this particular case a brand within the men’s grooming category which truly echoes the agency’s very own challenger approach to brand communication. “Shick’s ‘The Man I […]
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Toyota’s campaign for all-new RAV4 – a touch irreverent, but incredibly smart
Toyota South Africa’s campaign introducing its new RAV4 is a touch irreverent, very entertaining, and incredibly smart. Devised by FCB Joburg’s Creative Director Tian van den Heever, Copywriter Este de Beer and Art Directors Julie Thorogood and Janine Kleinschmidt, with input from Strategic Planner Stuart Simms and Creative Strategist Kyle Duckitt, it features five short […]
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Mauritius: A pearl in the deep blue ocean of branding
Mauritius has long been known as the star and the key of the Indian Ocean, but that is not all there is to this tiny, beautiful island. Boasting a colourful fusion of cultures, cuisine, language, lifestyle and the arts, it has the potential to be the star and the key of branding and design in […]
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Hellocomputer signs as ‘Agency on Record’ for A+E Networks Africa
Hellocomputer Johannesburg has successfully pitched for and signed as the ‘agency on record’ for A+E Networks Africa, the global media and entertainment brand that owns the History, Lifetime and Crime+Investigation channels as well as the VOD platform, H-Vault. According to A+E Networks Africa Senior Marketing Executive, Anita Gardini, she and her team are “excited to […]
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DUO Marketing + Communications committed to developing PR and marketing industry talent
Digital PR and marketing agency DUO Marketing + Communications (DUO) launched its very first Graduate Programme for PR and communications graduates earlier this year and had placed the first of what it hopes are many, graduates. Dintle Makhubo, who graduated from the University of the Free State, started at DUO at the beginning of March, […]
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Are brands living up to client expectations?
Jedd Cokayne, Business Unit Manager at The MediaShop I am not sure about you, but there is an underlying feeling that the world’s equilibrium is not quite balanced at the moment. I think this is abundantly evident in South Africa’s downturn in consumer confidence due to the current economic situation, the fact that we’re in […]
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Boomtown launches the Maluti Mountain Cement brand in Lesotho
Following its appointment to Maluti Mountain Cement in 2018, Boomtown has successfully rolled out the launch campaign for the Lesotho-based challenger brand. The highly regarded Lephema family from Lesotho partnered with international cement company and Boomtown client, Lafarge, to launch Maluti Mountain Cement. A product that carries the Lephema name with pride, the inception of […]
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Wunderman SSA Appointed by Global Healthcare Company, GSK
Wunderman SSA is celebrating its appointment to manage key GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) brands, following a competitive five-way, multinational agency pitch earlier this year. The agency has been entrusted with four powerful brands including Grandpa headache powder, Calpol paediatric syrup, Voltaren anti-inflammatory and Otrivin nasal decongestant. Haydn Townsend, Wunderman SSA’s group chief executive officer shared, “This is […]
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The impact of corruption on your media rand
Chris Botha, Group Managing Director of Park Advertising Carl Sagan once said: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to […]
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