Old Friends Young Talent remade
by Herman Manson. Less than a year since the merger of OFyt and Bletchley Park, the new combined agency is emerging from a process of integration.
Grenade: Small agency, big boom
by Herman Manson. It's rare for a team to emerge from publishing to launch a creative agency — as happened with two friends with digital agency, Grenade, in 2012.
All the winning 2016 Bookmarks
by MarkLives. The IAB SA has announced the winners of the 2016 IAB South Africa Bookmarks Awards. Congrats to all.
ABC Analysis Q4 2015
by Herman Manson. The ABC has released newspaper and magazine circulations statistics for the period October-December 2015 (ABC Q4 2015).
• The biggest-circulating newspapers in SA
• The biggest-circulating consumer mags in SA
The Big Q: Will the Middle East increasingly compete against SA ad agencies?
by MarkLives. We ask key industry execs — Johanna McDowell, Brett Morris, Jerry Mpufane, Ravi Naidoo, Veli Ngubane, Craig Page-Lee and Sbu Sitole— for their thoughts on relevant issues facing adland.
The Adtagonist: Happiness can buy money
by Carl Cardinelli. Do you wake up with unbridled enthusiasm to go to work and see your colleagues? If not, why not?
Regular Reads:
• Ad of the Week: You get thick, double thick, and then Steer’s...
• Ad of the Week: Like a bolt out of the blue
• Shelf Life: Winning designs for wine labels
• Shelf Life: Chivas Regal packaging MaXhosa style
• MagLove: The best magazine covers 4 March 2016
• MagLove: Best magazine covers 26 Feb 2016 — 100% proudly SA
On the Radar:
• No Young Lions for SA this year
• First Gay & Lesbian Travel conference heads for Cape Town
• 2016 Programmatic Summit
On the Move:
• Burger King moves on from King James
• VIMN Africa nabs former e.tv exec
• In Touch Media appoints new general manager
• Further key appointments at TMG
Account Wins:
• MailOnline appoints Ole! Media Group’s AddSuit
• Kagiso Media moves KAYA back to Mediamark
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