A new radio spot – the 4th in a series promoting Debonairs Pizza’s ‘#Un-lamba yourself’ special offers – has broken on 5FM and Metro FM. As with previous spots in the campaign, ‘No Goal Today’ utilises La Bamba, the easily-recognisable foot-tapping tune made famous in 1958 by Mexican-American musician Ritchie Valens, as the auditory device […]
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Relativ Media celebrates second birthday, looks ahead
Maintaining positive business growth in today’s economy is a tough call for any business, even more so in a competitive category like the out of home industry. Relativ Media, a dynamic out of home media business that offers marketers opportunities in prime locations, celebrates its second birthday this month as Relativ Media. MD Brett Tucker […]
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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 […]
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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 readingMore TagThe 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 […]
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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 […]
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#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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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