Taking an ad agency into media ownership might sound odd to many executives but Alistair King from King James explains it was born from a personal and professional need not to come stuck in a single medium and from frustration with the general state of the ad industry.
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On the bright side…
The latest edition of Newsweek features this rather bright cover in the midst of all the current doom and gloom.
ACSA flips me the finger
The ever so competent guardian of Cape Town’s first point of contact with visitors both local and foreign at Cape Town International Airport has come up with new ways to drive visitors in circles. By literally letting them drive in circles.
Taking soccer to the greens
As part of the new campaign BBDO Cape Town transformed the beautiful Killarney golf course with a full sized soccer field between the hole and the clubhouse.
No soothing ads for SA’s banking consumers
The world markets are in turmoil. The JSE plummets, the Rand slides, banks fail in US and Europe. It’s a crisis. Time for marketing departments to go in overdrive and reassure consumers that everything is OK. Your money is save with us. Not in SA.
Brainy ads for top magazines in US
The New York Times just ran a story on advertising produced by “for thoughtful readers” like The Economist, The Atlantic and The New Yorker. Firstly, don’t you just love the industry positioning, a magazine for thoughtful readers?
Who blogs? asks Technorati
Technorati recently released its State of the Blogosphere 2008 report. The site surveyed bloggers on the why and how of blogging with some interesting results.
The end of the digital devide
The digital devide is no more. Rudy-Nadler Nir argues that with 74% of the world’s population using cellphones there can be no digital divide.
Open source Chrome vs. No advertising IE 8
Microsoft has already won the desktop battle, but a new war is looming and in a connected world the ultimate end point is the browser, the most intimate interface that people use to surf the web. Whoever wins this round of what is popularly referred to as the browser wars wins the most valuable real estate of the connected economy.
“Do no evil” Google fails own mantra
Google’s famous company mantra “Do No Evil” is being called into question in a complaint filed at the Competition Commission by a South African digital marketing agency called Entelligence.