Strategically-led creative for Boomtown’s recent campaign for Ricoffy, saw the brand achieve tremendous growth 2017. And it was through culturally led insights from the Boomtown strategy team’s research that creative effectiveness was realised. It is due to this continued success, that Boomtown has further bolstered its team of strategists for an industry-leading strategic offering. Helna […]
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Terry Unser appointed Executive Business Director at 1886
Terry Unser, previously Executive Business Director at FCB Africa affiliate, 1886, has rejoined the agency as Executive Director: Integrated Business. The position, a newly created one, underscores the importance of integration across all media channels and marketing disciplines for 1886’s clients. Her responsibilities include all communication and business development for clients as well as managing […]
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Cobus van Zyl, a marketing communications professional with seven years’ experience in South Africa and eight in various sub-Saharan Africa markets has been appointed an Executive Business Director at FCB Africa with responsibility for FCB Connect, the liaison between the group’s affiliate agencies on the continent and clients with a footprint in markets across the […]
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Following the recent appointment of Alistair Mokoena as CEO, Ogilvy has spent some months finding just the right person to fill his previous position as MD of Ogilvy Johannesburg, where Alistair served for three years. We’re happy to announce that we have finally found her in Elouise Kelly! Elouise strengthens our team in several ways, […]
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Publicis Machine is proud to announce that its Cape Town team has been bolstered by the addition of three of the city’s hottest creative graduates of 2017 – Chiquita Williams, Richelle Naidoo and Nicholas Pollett, all of whom graduated top of their classes in their respective fields. The decision to hire creative graduates is in […]
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With over 25 years of experience and involvement in the media industry, Trish Guilford has recently been named as the new General Manager of the Out of Home Measurement Council (OMC). For the last three years, Trish has been consulting and freelancing in addition to being in a partnership with VML South Africa – developing […]
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Six new hires across creative and account management, sees Boomtown adding to its talent fueling the agencies growth, capacity and creative output. Within the client services, Pelokazi Mtwisha, Anina Pienaar and Zanda Twala join the team as account managers. And Danelle Classeen, Sukesh Moodaley, and Siyabonga Ndlebe bolster the Boomtown design force.“Adding young blood to […]
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Top television production company, Rapid Blue, has announced that Donald Clarke, Executive Producer and founder of production company, Lucky Bean, will be joining the Rapid Blue team as Commercial Director & Executive Producer. In 2016, BBC Worldwide invested in Rapid Blue, which is recognised as the company of choice for producing many international formats and has […]
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Four standout Western Cape matriculants, all named among the top 50 in the province, say they have Engen’s Maths and Science Schools (EMSS) to thank for helping put them firmly on the path to career success. Huda Adams, Shazia Amoo, Meeka-El Hendricks and Zakiyyah Petersen, began their tertiary studies this month at the universities of Cape […]
Continue readingMore TagJake Bester joins Dalmatian as Executive Creative Director
Ad industry heavyweight Jake Bester has recently been appointed as Partner and Executive Creative Director (ECD) at Dalmatian Advertising. Bester has eighteen years of creative experience to his name, starting with an 11-year stint at Ogilvy Cape Town and most recently as ECD at Publicis Machine, where he helped build the agency from it’s inception […]
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