Cannes Lions has today launched the 2018 Festival of Creativity, with important changes to the delegate experience and awards structure. A streamlined 65th edition of the Festival which will run for five days More than 650 delegate passes given away free as part of new Young Lions initiative New opportunities to celebrate the work throughout […]
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Promise top 5 in SA for client satisfaction
Promise has been voted by clients as a foremost agency in South Africa for client satisfaction. Promise is also the only agency to maintain its position in the top 5 after the debut SCOPEN Agency Scope survey. The extensive findings of the latest SCOPEN Agency Scope Review have also revealed numerous first positions for the […]
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Strategic content and production agency 10th Street won Gold and Leader awards at the 2017 Assegai Integrated Awards last week, in its first time entering the prestigious show. The accolades, organised by the Direct Marketing Association of South Africa (DMASA), are a mark of excellence in integrated marketing. Rather than giving honours for extravagant productions […]
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Reflections on the local commercial production industry By Bobby Amm, Executive Officer, the Commercial Producers Association With South Africa’s unstable commercial production industry, and our currently strained economy, the topic of sustainability has been receiving a lot more attention. This has come sharply into focus via the CPA’s annual survey, which has revealed some noteworthy […]
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The distribution process: taking the local paper from printer to postbox
Ever wonder how your local paper ends up in your hands every week? It takes much more than the misperception of a paperboy haphazardly tossing papers on pavements. We spoke to Jaco Koekemoer, Managing Director of Caxton Local Media and Coldset Printing at Caxton Group, about the complex distribution process that gets local papers […]
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FCB Canada has launched a follow-up to its award-winning “Down Syndrome Answers” campaign for the Canadian Down Syndrome Society to coincide with Canadian Down Syndrome Week. The new work, called “Anything But Sorry,” explains how you can say almost anything to parents who just had a child with Down Syndrome, except for the one truly […]
Continue readingMore TagAnother one in the bag for Jacaranda FM at ASSEGAI Awards 2017
It was another big night for Jacaranda FM and Halo agency at the Assegai awards, adding seven more awards to their string of recent wins for the #MoreMusicYouLove campaign. This included the highest allocade of the evening, namely; the Nkosi award. Representing Jacaranda FM on the night was Marketing Manager of Jacaranda FM, Minisha Patel, who’s […]
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I’ve gathered my thoughts on the second theme that emerged for me from the #INBOUND17 conference. This theme seemed to carry itself throughout the conference and spoke around businesses, culture and brands, and so it made me start thinking about brands that do this well in the South African market. Now I am sure you […]
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As a growing airport that is strategically important to Gauteng, Lanseria International Airport provides an ideal location to showcase premium-quality brands to an ever-increasing number of passengers (and a large number of VIPs). The airport recently introduced a SLOW lounge for its more discerning upper LSM passengers and is currently in the process of constructing […]
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Egg Films’ Dan Mace directed 140BBDO’s new Start Refreshed Hunter’s ad, a celebration of the doers rather than the dreamers. “The script really resonated with me because as a young director, I’m still starting something,” says Dan, who hasn’t had time to dream since hitting the ground running at Egg in May. “I treated this one like […]
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