by Tom Fels (@thomasfels) Having spent most of my career working at independent agencies, I suddenly found myself contemplating what it means to be an independent in this industry.
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Letter from NY: An immigrant to New York, building an ad agency
by Matthew Bull (@StixBull) There was an ad for Porsche many moons back that I have never forgotten. It was a picture of a Porsche flying over a rise on a road. The headline said: “It’s like children. You can’t understand until you have one.” That’s kind of how I feel about owning an agency in New York – you never really know what it’s like until you own one.
Playboy ‘No means no’ cover still irks some
MarkLives.com runs a regular slot 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.
Are you a Loerie Fash Ho?
by Louise Marsland (@louise_marsland) One of the things about the creative industry is the fact that if you say ‘black tie’ on an invitation, the only people who will pitch in full evening dress are the clients.
Everyone else will try out do each other in subverting the dress code and making a creative fashion statement.
People attend Loeries for the work, the awards, the parties and also to be seen rocking a statement outfit or being as ‘anti-establishment’ as possible by going against the grain.
I remember the first time The Loerie Awards, which had become a six-hour ordeal interspersed with M-Net continuity announcers, went to two awards evenings the first time at Sun City to try get the length of the evening down by splitting the awards into two nights.
In protest, one top creative, can’t remember who, went shirtless the first night, only wearing trousers and shoes and socks, and the next night pitched in his underpants with a shirt, tie and jacket on.
Hermaneutics: A tale of three award ceremonies
by Herman Manson. It’s like inviting Bucks Fizz to MC a champagne & sparkling wine event. I’m of course talking about flying in MC Hammer to MC the Loerie Awards on Sunday evening, or not, as the case might be.
Letter from NY: How ad schools are losing our industry’s talented thinkers
by Matthew Bull (@StixBull) Our industry is losing talented thinkers. An open letter.
MarkLives Agency Revenue Rankings 2021
We’ve updated our revenue rankings to give an overview of the relative scale of agencies in the South African communications landscape.
MarkLives Agency Revenue Rankings 2020
We’ve updated our revenue rankings to give an overview of the relative scale of ad agencies in the SA comms landscape.
EXCLUSIVE: Dallas Glover new WPP Liquid MD
by MarkLives. Grey Africa has appointed Dallas Glover as MD of WPP’s bespoke agency for Distell, Liquid.
Winners: Bookmarks 2020
by MarkLives. The 2020 results comprise 15 Gold Pixels, 47 Silver Pixels and 67 Bronze awards across 71 categories.