Godfrey Morley has been running Draftfcb Cape Town]] for a little over a year. As someone who has spent most of his career on the client side of the table – he was head of sponsorship for SAB, communications director for McDonalds, marketing director of Samsung and executive director at Thebe Tourism Group – Morley brings a strong focus on business transformation to the agency.
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire pricing the big differentiator as tablet market hots up
Amazon last week stunned the market with its announcement that the 7” Kindle Fire tablet will sell for $199.99 – well under half the price of the cheapest iPad. And it will release a $79 Kindle e-reader.
Quick view: 10.7% of SA media budgets now go to digital platforms
The Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) recently commissioned Analytix BI to conduct a research study to help the digital industry better understand the digital ad spend trends of South Africa’s top advertisers.
Cover Shot: Magazine covers we love (this week)
MarkLives.com is introducing a new regular slot onto the site dedicated to featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them.
Knott-Craig Jr on the future of Mxit
Last week MXit was bought out by Alan Knott-Craig Jr’s World of Avatar – at a time when it faces its greatest challenges. He talks frankly about competing with BBM and WhatsApp – and more – with ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
Where WiFi never sleeps opportunity knocks
Expensive Internet access in South Africa means free WiFi has never been common. In New York, security concerns have the same effect, but free WiFi still abounds, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK. So who will become the venues of choice for WiFi-hungry mobile workers?
Creative Director Wears Beret to Disciplinary Hearing
Arthur Groenewald, Creative Director at TBW Smith Jones Wallace Broadbent and Ndimande, arrived at his disciplinary this Tuesday hearing wearing a black beret. Questioned by media journalists about his head gear Groenewald stated the item was ‘in line with his life as a conceptual revolutionary.’
Matthew Bull, Andrew Whitehouse launch NY shop
Matthew Bull, former chief creative officer of Lowe & Partners (an Interpublic Group company) and founder of South African agency Lowe Bull, has teamed up with Andrew Whitehouse, executive creative director at FoxP2, to launch a New-York-based agency, The Bull-White House, which will be a sister agency to South Africa’s FoxP2.
MarkLives gets its groove back
Regular readers would have noticed that MarkLives recently launched a new look web site. It builds on a proud history with the tech, media and marketing communications industries that stretches back to 1998 when the predecessor to this site, media.toolbox, was launched.
Breaking now: Matthew Bull talks about the new NY shop he is launching with Andrew Whitehouse
Breaking news: Matthew Bull, former chief creative officer of Lowe & Partners (an Interpublic Group company) and founder of SA agency Lowe Bull, has teamed up with Andrew Whitehouse, Executive Creative Director at FoxP2, to launch a New York based ad shop, the Bull Whitehouse. The agency will be a sister agency to South Africa’s FoxP2.