BizCommunity EXCLUSIVE: The three founders of acclaimed below-the-line agency Mick & Nick, owned by the Lowe Bull Group, have left the agency they helped found to join M&C Saatchi Abel Johannesburg.
Category archives: Adland
The waning influence of ad award shows
The waning influence of ad award shows
The waning influence of ad award shows
The statues are stacked in neat rows along office walls. It’s come to define our industry. Kids are told they need to win ’em to impress the creative director and secure that job. Creative directors are told they needs to win ’em to impress the MD and prove their relevance in a competitive industry. MD care because they are told the talent cares, and with a bit of spin and a celebratory lunch, the client might be induced to care, too.
That’s a lot of caring taking place right there, so why am I seeing more and more stories along the lines of ‘Death to Design Awards’, published on the influential design blog Design Observer, or “What’s wrong with advertising award shows?”, published on Adsoftheworld?
Local graffiti artists and illustrators remake Percy Bartley House in Woodstock
Ogilvy Cape Town has collaborated with Ricky Lee Gordon of Write-on-Africa to restore life and colour to the Percy Bartley House in Woodstock by providing the home with new coats of colourful paint and wall murals done by local well-known graffiti artists and illustrators. The home looks after troubled teen boys with a history of living on the streets.
Merger sees three key digital agencies combine for scale
Three important digital and mobile agencies are merging to create what they hope will be a major new player in the South African advertising world. Cambrient, Stonewall+ and Brandsh will merge under the leadership of new CEO Jason Xenopoulos to create what they term a “full service digital agency” called Native.
Feedback re: Andrew Human
Andrew Human, MD of the Loerie Awards, disagreed with my article titled Fall in entries for Digital Loeries points to adoption issues published on BizCommunity.com.
Fall in entries for Digital Loeries points to adoption issues
Wading through the near endless amount of PR on the digital transformation and seamless integration of digital into the advertising world, it must be a little disconcerting for Clint Bryce, chairman of both the Digital and Online Advertising judging panels of the 2010 Loerie awards, to see entries in these categories decline this year in spite of steady growth in online ad spend.
60 layers of smart
Brilliant ideas come from conversation. A great conversation can lead to collaboration. That pretty much sums up the core strategic proposition behind Cape Town’s newest ad agency, 60 Layers of Cake.
The future of mobile app development lies in simplicity
With the move of computing power away from the desktop to cellphones and other mobile devices, computing is becoming increasingly intimate and integrated into daily life. In his latest book, “Mobile Mania”, Simon Silvester (EVP Head of Planning at Young and Rubicam and Executive Planning Director, Wunderman Europe Middle East and Africa), argues that computings’ new intimacy, driving as it does aspects of our social, shopping, travel and personal communication, offers amazing opportunities for mobile app developers and entrepreneurs.
Cannes report back: Collaboration key to creativity
Cannes report back: Collaboration key to creativity
By Anton Crone, Executive Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town
Cannes. La Croisette. Locked onto the scent of red carpet we are heading for La Palais du Festival; the Med to our left, the Majestic hotel to our right and leashed chihuahua’s everywhere in between. Like a snail underfoot, except crunchy on the inside, you have to keep your eyes peeled for these guide dogs of the gliteratti, but if they are not trotting along the pavement with their madame in tow, they are taking a well deserved Louise Vuitton bag break, nesting among mascara sticks and bejeweled cell phones.