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Francois de Villiers, Nick Barr joins Haas Collective as agency takes Spur account
A small Cape Town agency has just taken the Spur account and brought on board the former executive creative director of Draftfcb – Francois de Villiers. Haas Collective is a creative collective run by Mike Orrey, one of the founders of Orrey, Rightford & Drysdale Advertising (ORD Advertising) and Glynn Venter, a former ECD of the Draftfcb through-the-line studio.
Loerie and Pendoring Awards join forces during Creative Week
Loerie and Pendoring Awards join forces during Creative Week
More than a million South Africans active on Twitter
Recent research findings on social media in South Africa highlighted the rise of Twitter. Arthur Goldstuck digs deeper into the data to explain what it all means.
New Y&R Cape Town MD looks to small wins for big gains
Natalie Tudhope has just taken over the mantle of MD at Young & Rubicam (Y&R) Cape Town from Alan Schreiber, who stays with the group but becomes managing partner of Team Pick n Pay, the agency’s biggest client. Tudhope adds the MD portfolio to that of financial director for the Cape Town agency.
Modise Makhene on how the Great Recession changed ad land
Modise Makhene, CEO of JWT South Africa, says the singing by protesters in front of the JWT Cape Town office at 30 Keerom Street makes a familiar sound-track, what with its offices situated right across from the Western Cape High Court. The chanting and singing of the well-behaved crowd drifting into the offices on the Velocity building’s third floor is a reminder that ad land can’t afford to cocoon itself from the broader society – here ordinary South Africans are literally reminding them of their daily struggles on an agency’s doorstep.
Clients say “screw the line” – Godfrey Morley
Godfrey Morley has been running Draftfcb Cape Town]] for a little over a year. As someone who has spent most of his career on the client side of the table – he was head of sponsorship for SAB, communications director for McDonalds, marketing director of Samsung and executive director at Thebe Tourism Group – Morley brings a strong focus on business transformation to the agency.
S’HOT: Loving Porky’s CrateFan
Cratefan was created to showcase Coca-Cola’s recycling initiative, Live For a Difference, during the FIFA World Cup. Cratefan is a complex inner skeleton of scaffolding which is then clad with an outer layer of red Coke crates. Building on the recycling theme the installation is being continuously reimagined to celebrate Christmas, Easter and Cokes’ 125th Birthday.
King James makes good
King James, one of the country’s most respected ad agencies, is full of good news. The Cape-Town-based agency, named after its founders Alistair King and James Barty, has been winning business and accolades and has just moved into the stately building it bought, the historic Roodebloem Manor, in Woodstock, Cape Town.
M&C Saatchi Abel gets thumbs up from Moray MacLennan
M&C Saatchi Abel is buzzing. The agency, which launched in early 2010 with no clients signed up front but a powerful management team, has grown to more than 63 staffers working with 29 client organisations. It just won the account for Geely – the Chinese auto manufacturer that also owns Volvo. The agency recently took another floor in the block in Cape Town where it is headquartered.