by Zibusiso Mkhwanazi. How many of us stop and think about our own brands — the agencies we have built from scratch?
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2020 & beyond is the era of the black-owned agency
by Zibusiso Mkhwanazi. I would like to expand on Jarred Cinman’s views — which I fully agree with — in his MarkLives, #BigQ2020 trends piece.
M&N Brands launches agency with SKYY as 1st client
by Herman Manson. M&N Brands, owned by Zibusiso Mkhwanazi and Veli Ngubane of Avatar fame, has launched a new agency with Mbuso Ndlovu and Chiedza Quinchette.
New African holding company to challenge global networks
by Herman Manson. Zibusiso Mkhwanazi and Veli Ngubane have rebranded their agency holding company to M&N Brands.
Big Q: Transformation — clients must take road less travelled
by MarkLives. Why are so many black professionals disgruntled with the rate of progress? Next up in our panel is Zibusiso Mkhwanazi of AVATAR.
Launching an ad agency with 2000 bucks
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Zibusiso Mkhwanazi and Veli Ngubane decided to launch an integrated ad agency. With R2000 as start-up money. True story, says Ngubane (29), who was a Non Executive Director at Ireland-Davenport before he joined forces with Mkhwanazi (30), a serial entrepreneur best known in the agency world for being Executive Chairman at KRAZYBOYZ digital and later as Chairman of The Redquarter Brand Design.
Launched in January 2012, Avatar is positioned as a full-service marketing agency “with digital at the core,” and today counts 20th Century Fox, National Geographic, Fox International Channels and Dinners Club International amongst its clients. The agency also employs 28 people in Johannesburg and 4 in Durban.
Directory of independent creative agencies in South Africa 2021
We’ve created a table of independent creative agencies in South Africa. Listings are voluntary and made directly by the agencies involved.
BREAKING: Avatar buys Espresso DBN to beef up DBN office
by MarkLives. M&N Brands has acquired a 51% stake in Espresso DBN, an independent Durban-based ad agency.
#BigReads2019: The agencies that made waves in 2019
by Herman Manson. We list the ad agencies you made time to read about here on MarkLives during 2019.
EXCLUSIVE: Make Beautiful acquired by M&N Brands
by Herman Manson. Zwelakhe Tshabangu’s The Make Beautiful Agency has been acquired by M&N Brands, the network which owns Avatar Agency Group.