M&C Saatchi Group SA has promoted Neo Mashigo to chief creative officer. Mashigo, who joined 12 months ago, will now lead and oversee the creative mandate of the agency group. “It’s an exciting opportunity to help grow our vision of becoming one of the most-respected creative companies on the African continent. And we will do […]
by MarkLives. Over several weeks, we’ve been featuring pearls of wisdom from Mike Schalit’s Creative#Director book — next up is Neo Mashigo.
The new creative partner for the M&C Saatchi South Africa Group is the multi-award-winning Neo Mashigo. Based out of Cape Town, his primary role will be to help build the M&C Saatchi Group of Companies by partnering Gordon Ray (founding partner: ECD Cape Town) and Adam Weber (partner: ECD Johannesburg) within M&C Saatchi Abel, as […]
Neo Mashigo, co-executive creative director at Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg, has resigned. Mariana O’Kelly will take the role as ECD for the office. According to a statement released by the agency, Mashigo will leave the agency at the end of August 2015 “to pursue his ambition of being an entrepreneur”. Mashigo was recently elected chairperson […]
by Veli Ngubane. This young artist/filmmaker/photographer is too humble to brag about his achievements and accolades, so I will.
The Loeries has appointed a new board for 2020/21, with Fran Luckin, Grey Africa chief creative officer, taking over from Tseliso Rangaka, FCB Joburg and Hellocomputer chief creative officer, as chairperson. While we have your attention, please would you consider taking out a MarkLives membership to help finance our operations? The covid-19 pandemic is having […]
TBWA\Hunt Lascaris Johannesburg has taken top honours in the Creative Circle Overall Rankings Agency of the Year 2019. In second place is Joe Public United, followed by Ogilvy Johannesburg in third. In the Creative Circle Overall Rankings Group of the Year 2019, it is TBWA\ South Africa at no. 1, followed by Joe Public United […]
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#Mzansipoli is the latest video ad from Nando’s and M&C Saatchi Abel and directed by Dean Blumberg of Massif, based on a thoroughly South African version of Monopoly. As usual for this time of the year, Nando’s is encouraging South Africans to have a bit of a laugh at and among themselves — in #Mzansipoli, […]
Creative agency M&C Saatchi Abel Johannesburg has appointed James Cloete as executive creative director with a strategic handle on the Standard Bank account. Because of the scale of the business, the agency is strategically marrying talent with specific clients. Cloete will form part of the M&C Saatchi Abel JHB leadership team, together with GCCO Neo […]