In December, many big brands worldwide launch Christmas campaigns. In South Africa, the focus is on summer, and Cell C – the cellular service provider that allows you to connect your way – has turned up the heat with a high energy 60-second TVC that’s so hot, it should come with a health warning. Targeting […]
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The strategy and measurement of online video
By Darren Kerr, Executive Producer and Director at 10th Street In the early 2000s, a range of technologies came onto the consumer market offering the ability to operate a computer using just the eyes. Targeted at the severely disabled, the hands-free computing systems allow them to place the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen simply […]
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Egg Films’ Sunu directed Africa On Fire, NativeVML’s follow-up to the Cannes Gold-winning Absolut One Source campaign. Africa On Fire has already been featured on leading international trade publication Shots. Shot in Ghana, the four-minute film portrays creative revolutionaries as the superheroes they are – with their art form as their superpower. South African rappers […]
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FCB Joburg has been crowned as South Africa’s Agency of the Year for 2017. The award, announced earlier this week (November 22), was made by Financial Mail AdFocus, the local industry’s premier marketing award show. As winner of the 2017 Large Agency of the Year category, for the second consecutive year in the category’s three […]
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On the 14th of January 2014, M&C Saatchi Abel hosted the first ever Street Store event in Cape Town – a rent-free, premises-free, pop-up clothing ‘store’ for the homeless. The Street Store is stocked with donations from the public and the homeless can enjoy a dignified ‘shopping’ experience for free. “We didn’t want to keep […]
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Absa intends boosting card usage over cash with a new campaign from FCB Joburg that utilises television, radio, out-of-home, digital, social and internal communications. ‘Swiiish’, which features a protagonist who enters the lives of people paying with cash to question that foolhardiness at various points-of-sale, takes its strategic direction from the platform ‘Anything cash can […]
Continue readingMore TagThe Art of Fusion from So Interactive
The perpetual challenge: How do you break through the clutter in a casual dining space? When So Interactive was briefed by its client Ocean Basket to take their new Mediterrasian sushi range to the next level using innovative media, all the stops were pulled out to produce an inventive new benchmark of ‘amazing’. Ocean Basket’s extended […]
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Those fortunate enough to have attended a tertiary institution can attest to it being some of the most fulfilling and challenging days of their lives. Depending on the environment and nature of the institution, higher education is about so much more than textbook learning and the anxiety of exam season – it’s a meeting of […]
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M&C Saatchi Abel has joined forces with tyre fitment specialists BestDrive, creating an ad that is sure to make this challenger brand top of mind. This is not the first time the agency has created a campaign that turns a challenger into a champion, as evidenced by its work with brands like Hollard, Heineken and […]
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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 […]
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