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"OFyt remade; Grenade — small agency, big boom; Burger King moves on; Bookmarks" - MarkLives

And other top advertising, media and marketing news, analysis and opinion on the website this week, including…

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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