The disintermediation of GSM operators
Mobile Network Operators are at serious risk of losing revenue to disruptive startups in the next 12 to 24 months. By: Justin Spratt, VoIP Mobile General Manager at Internet Solutions In South Africa the kings of mobile telephony are of course MTN and Vodacom, with Neotel and Telkom pushing their new CDMA wireless technologies. They have all spent massive amounts of capital building networks and are quite understandably vehement in protecting their investments. The problem is... Read More
Clio Awards clarifies Ogilvy JHB campaign status
The CLIO Awards provided the following statement after removing the supposed History Channel campaign by Ogilvy Johannesburg from their website last week pending further investigation: “Ogilvy Johannesburg has withdrawn the entry from the 2009 CLIO competition.” Short and sweet but at least its an answer. Tweet Share/Bookmark Read More
With a pat on the head, all is well again at Ogilvy
Last week it came to light that Ogilvy Johannesburg submitted ads created for AETN’s South African broadcast partner, Multichoice, to numerous trade publications and blogs as well as having entered it into numerous international ad awards in spite of it never receiving approval from client. In the meantime it has been awarded a silver Clio and was finalist at the One Show Awards en New York. One of the ads reportedly just ran in the latest issue of Migrate – the official... Read More
Giant quilt turns into a great billboard
Hot off the heals of their Gold Loerie-winning Billboard of last year in which they built a billboard out of 6000 puzzle pieces over a four week period, Allan Gray and its ad agency King James have once again pushed the boundaries of outdoor media with their latest billboard that was erected at Cape Town International recently. In line with Allan Gray’s ongoing strategy of “anything worthwhile usually takes time”, over a three month period a giant three metre by twelve metre... Read More
The History Channel issues cease and desist to bloggers
Update: CLIO removes campaign from list of winners on website Update: Camaign won silver Clio – but where did it run? Update: Conservative commentators took aim at campaign before lawyers stepped in MarkLives received a cease and desist letter from AETN, parent company of The History Channel, demanding we remove advertising material for The History Channel from this site. For the record, the campaign in question was submitted by Multichoice agency Ogilvy Johannesburg, along... Read More
