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Category archives: Adland
Creation: Five ways to successfully kill your creativity
by Artwell Nwaila (@artwelln) We as creatives get so caught up in our work that we forget the small things that help fuel our craft. Today I look at five simple things that may contribute to deflated creativity.
Beyond Borders: Ad agency networks in sub-Saharan Africa — genuine representation or just another door plaque?
by Craig Page-Lee (@cpl_ignite) Is a standalone Digital Agency of the Year Award still relevant? Is the African Advertising Agency Network of the Year Award correctly titled and genuinely representative of activities on the continent?
BMW leaves Ireland/Davenport for OpenCo
by MarkLives (@marklives) BMW will be parting ways with its South Africa agency, Ireland/Davenport (a WPP agency), after a decade of working together. BMW was Ireland /Davenport’s founding client. The BMW business will be taken over by Openco (majority owned by TBWA\South Africa).
World Wide Creative two years after the Sekunjalo deal
by Herman Manson (@marklives) A little over two years ago, Saratoga Software, a subsidiary of JSE-listed Sekunjalo Investments Limited, acquired a majority shareholding in digital agency, World Wide Creative. The agency had intentionally sought a buyer that wasn’t part of an agency network (or an ad agency, for that matter).
Publicis Groupe/Creative Counsel rumours gather pace
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Rumours around the imminent acquisition of below-the-line agency The Creative Counsel by Publicis Groupe are gathering pace. Negotiations around a possible deal are understood to have started in 2014 but have yet to be concluded successfully.
Utopia — the agency Graham Warsop didn’t know he launched
by Herman Manson (@marklives) In 2012, Graham Warsop launched a new ad agency, Utopia. Except he didn’t realise that that was what he was doing.
Media Redefined: “Creative agency makes the shortlist in Coca-Cola’s media agency review”
by Martin MacGregor (@MartMacG) That’s not my headline. It’s the headline of a recent Advertising Age article which made me sit up and read it a few times to make sure I was reading it right. I was, and it felt as if the earthquake I had been waiting for had finally struck.
The Ad Exec: The network life
by Tom Fels (@thomasfels) After the acquisition news of the past 12 months, there are plenty of formerly-independent agency owners and executives making the adjustment to network life. I am one of them. So what’s it like?
EXCLUSIVE: Bidvest Media acquires Retroviral Digital Communications
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Bidvest Media has purchased a majority stake in Retroviral Digital Communications, its second acquisition in the media space — it owns a stake in integrated sports marketing and sponsorship agency, MSCSPORTS.