by Herman Manson. The Jupiter Drawing Room (Cape Town) has restructured and rescaled its business after a tough 2017.
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Jupiter Cape Town goes for new cool with global, digital work
by Herman Manson (@marklives) The Jupiter Drawing Room (Cape Town) has come off ‘two horrendous’ years, admits agency head Kevan Aspoas. During that time, the agency lost two major accounts, namely Woolworths and Sanlam. “It knocked our psyche,” admits Aspoas. But he believes the agency is getting its mojo back.
Claire Cobbledick leaves Jupiter Cape Town
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Claire Cobbledick is no longer MD of The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town, having left the agency at the end of November 2013 after after having served out a three-month notice period. Kevan Aspoas is now serving in a dual role of MD and CEO for the foreseeable future.
Jupiter loses Woolworths
The Jupiter Drawing Room (Cape Town) has confirmed that Woolworths, one of the largest advertising accounts in Cape Town, has given it notice that it is moving its account into an in-house studio. AIS/ADEX valued adspend from Woolworths at R104 million during 2010. Jupiter Cape Town held the account for five years.
2010 hit the reset button in Cape adland
In spite of some turbulence, post Great Recession it turns out that 2010 wasn’t such a bad year for Cape Town’s adland after all. While big account moves in Cape Town were rather limited, agencies are taking the initiative to reinvent their internal processes, in some cases shedding staff and departments, while looking for work coming out of Johannesburg or internationally.
AdVantage magazine’s execs Cape Town’s execs most admire
AdVantage magazine set out to discover which agencies, agency bosses and creative directors other Cape Town agency execs most admire. Twenty one of Cape Town’s agency leaders were invited to nominate their most admired agency in Cape Town, the most admired creative director in Cape Town and the most admired agency boss in Cape Town. Finally they were asked to nominate the agency with most success in integrating digital into its offering. Obviously nobody could nominate their own agency or staff. All the nominations were then tallied up to see who Cape Town’s adland most admire. @marklives did the tallying.