by Herman Manson. Zwelakhe Tshabangu’s The Make Beautiful Agency has been acquired by M&N Brands, the network which owns Avatar Agency Group.
Tag archives: Veli Ngubane
#BigQNarratives: SA adland can’t champion what it doesn’t understand
by MarkLives. Veli Ngubane is our third panellist to tackle: “Are SA ad agencies and brands embracing an authentically African narrative and aesthetic or do they continue to imitate US and European work?”
M&N Brands launches agency with SKYY as 1st client
by Herman Manson. M&N Brands, owned by Zibusiso Mkhwanazi and Veli Ngubane of Avatar fame, has launched a new agency with Mbuso Ndlovu and Chiedza Quinchette.
New African holding company to challenge global networks
by Herman Manson. Zibusiso Mkhwanazi and Veli Ngubane have rebranded their agency holding company to M&N Brands.
EXCLUSIVE: AVATAR buys into M&C Saatchi’s SA network
by Herman Manson. Avatar Investment Holdings is set to acquire a significant minority stake in M&C Saatchi’s SA network.
The Big Q: Will the ME increasingly compete against SA ad agencies?
by MarkLives. A new monthly column in which we ask key industry execs for their thoughts on relevant issues facing the ad industry.
EXCLUSIVE: Brand SA appoints challenger agency to digital account
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Brand South Africa has appointed AVATAR, effective 1 September 2014, to take on its digital advertising account. The challenger agency beat a field of some 80 interested agencies that were shortlisted to a count of 24.
Launching an ad agency with 2000 bucks
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Zibusiso Mkhwanazi and Veli Ngubane decided to launch an integrated ad agency. With R2000 as start-up money. True story, says Ngubane (29), who was a Non Executive Director at Ireland-Davenport before he joined forces with Mkhwanazi (30), a serial entrepreneur best known in the agency world for being Executive Chairman at KRAZYBOYZ digital and later as Chairman of The Redquarter Brand Design.
Launched in January 2012, Avatar is positioned as a full-service marketing agency “with digital at the core,” and today counts 20th Century Fox, National Geographic, Fox International Channels and Dinners Club International amongst its clients. The agency also employs 28 people in Johannesburg and 4 in Durban.