by Herman Manson. This follows the news that Graham Lang, CCO of Y&R SA and Africa, is leaving the agency at the end of November 2017.
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Graham Lang resigns from Y&R South Africa
by MarkLives. Graham Lang, CCO of Y&R South Africa and Africa, is leaving the agency at the end of November 2017.
Ad of the Week: Mandevu flips haircare paradigm
by Oresti Patricios. An arresting campaign for a specialist grooming product in a market that’s growing faster than human facial hair.
One Show: South Africa’s additional 2 Golds, 2 Silvers and 4 Bronzes
by MarkLives. With another two Gold, two Silver and four Bronze Pencils, South Africa is ranked 13 by country overall and first by country in Radio.
Ad of the Week: The power of sudden impact [graphic]
by Oresti Patricios. Y&R Cape Town and Egg Films’s short for Safely Home strikes home hard. Really hard.
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.
Blood diamonds are forever
Y&R Cape Town produced this campaign for the African Diamond Council. It highlights the ongoing human cost of the illegitimate diamond trade in Africa and is particularly relevant as the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, the organisation that certifies traded diamonds doesn’t comes from conflict zones, debates certifying diamonds coming from Zimbabwe under the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe.