The Gate Keeper (Chapter 1: In which help is secured)

Mama E takes the helm at the TBWSJWBN executive offices and realises that not all is well. Nonetheless, she does her best to reassure a nearly naked – and now jobless – young graphic designer.

Bletchley Park wants to win the war by being real

Spending most of your time with problems makes you need to change your perspective on them, says Kelly Putter, Creative Director at Bletchley Park.

Awards Candy – SA app start-up signing global award shows

Wallace Seggie, a South African creative director, has developed an app that brings together in one place award winning work from a number of the worlds’ largest advertising festivals.

The Creative Circle needs to manage relevance, says Chris Gotz

Chris Gotz, Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy Cape Town, recently took up the reins as chair of the Creative Circle, a body promoting creativity in the South African advertising industry.

EXCLUSIVE: Ninety9cents lands Capitec, sees 43% growth y/y

Cape Town headquartered agency ninety9cents has landed the Capitec account – probably the most exciting banking brand any agency can hope to work on.

The rise of Machine

So there is this online media sales house right, small fry really, just one guy selling space on a website at a time when internet advertising was fairly undeveloped in the South African market. It’s not really even a sales house, more like a sales guy with a bit of ambition.

Quick case: Allan Gray – growing its market share from 3.9% to 16% in eight years

Allan Gray, a successful but niched Cape based asset management firm, decided to extend the business into the retail sector with the launch a unit trust company, in a market dominated by a handful of big brand asset managers (such as Old Mutual and Sanlam) and specialist investment organisations (like Coronation, Investec etc.).

King James – the road less travelled

Fourteen years after its launch King James has emerged as South Africa’s most acclaimed independent ad agency. Growing organically, the agency has finally reached a tipping point to boost confidence, influence and revenues, even as it steers the challenges of offering a fully integrated, digitally adept service.

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