Linda Gibson, CEO of Ads24, the national advertising sales and marketing division of Media24 newspapers and their branded digital properties, has announced a realignment of significant executive personnel, in the disciplines of Sales, Marketing and Business Strategy. Inland Sales Director, Louise Birkner moves to National Sales Director and, Vimla Frank Heads up Marketing and [...]
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Media players showing positive audience results
Most South Africans remain true to their media South Africa’s media players are showing positive audience results midway through the year. This is the broad-strokes view of the media industry, seen with the release of the latest All Media and Products Survey, AMPS Jun 12, by the South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF). Overall, print [...]
Prezence Digital wins Smarties Award
Prezence Digital, a full services digital agency, won silver in the Social Impact/Not For Profit category for its #MandelaStory viral campaign at the global Mobile Marketing Association’s (MMA) Smarties Awards in New York . Created with official approval from the , which delivers the core work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Prezence Digital developed this [...]
Young Creative Loeries Award winner heads to Cannes
Jaco Burger, a designer and partner at Die Ateljee will be heading off to Cannes following his win of the coveted Adams & Adams Young Creative Loeries Award. “My entry was a collection of work done mostly for cultural institutions; MoDILA (Museum of Design, Innovation, Leadership & Art), Wits Art Museum, UIA & SAIA Durban [...]
Vega dominates at Loeries and Pendorings
The Vega School of Brand Leadership’s (Vega) reputation as a leader in brand innovation has again been cemented having recently won one Gold, three Silver, and three Bronze awards, and claiming three out of four craft awards at this year’s Loeries. In addition, its students also collected two silver Pendoring Awards for the Owl Rescue [...]
Intern wins gold at the Loeries
Six months ago, 140 BBDO creative intern Mawande (Manez) Sobetwa didn’t really know what a copywriter was. This weekend, he won gold at the Loerie Awards along with Lubalalo Mtati and JP Le Riche on the Snickers ‘Tongue Twister’ radio advertisement. Executive Creative Director at the agency, Ivan Johnson says that it’s fresh, unschooled and untainted talent [...]
