Advertising News South Africa

Yellow Pencil for Die Antwoord music video

LONDON, UK: Apart from a Yellow Pencil for the Die Antwoord music video in the Music Video category, South Africa didn't convert any of the remaining three Pencil nominations at the D&AD Awards last night, Thursday, 16 June 2011, in London. In other news, D&AD and The One Club have joined forces to provide a creative ranking system, the Pencil Rankings. [video]

JuryAwardStatusCategoryEntrantTitleClient
Music VideosYellow PencilMusic Videosharry and coZef SideDie AntwoordZef side

Yellow Pencil for Die Antwoord music video
L to R: Yannick Pian, Tanya de Jongh and Martin Magner
L to R: Yannick Pian, Tanya de Jongh and Martin Magner
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In the Student Awards, Red & Yellow School (@Logic_and_Magic) students Yannick Pian, Tanya De Jongh and Martin Magner received their Second in the Graphics - Open Graphic for the brief "Create a viral movement amongst designers that unbreakably links Arjowiggins Creative Papers with creativity and the creative design process" by sponsor GraphicsArjowiggins Creative Papers.

Predictably, Wieden+Kennedy Portland cleaned up with the Old Spice "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" campaign with two Black and three Yellow Pencils.

For all the winners:

Yellow Pencil for Die Antwoord music video
Yellow Pencil for Die Antwoord music video

Creative ranking system

The Pencil Rankings has been developed between the two non-profit organisations to reflect a joint declaration of creative ideals and standards for the advertising, design, interactive and communications industries at large. The rankings are supposed to enable agencies and clients to gauge their creative standing in the world.

The Pencil Rankings are simply based entirely on how creative work has performed in what the two organisations claim are the two most highly-regarded, rigorously-judged, not-for-profit shows in the world.

So, looking at the top 20, how did South Africa do in 2010 (Bizcommunity is currently waiting for the 2011 results to be updated with last night's D&AD results)?

2010 Pencil Rankings South Africa

CategoryRankingAgency
Agency2TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg
Agency/Advertising2TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg
Agency/Design1TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg
Client3The Zimbabwean newspaper
Country6South Africa

Not unexpectedly, South Africa doesn't feature in Agency/Interactive.

2010 Agency: regional filter South Africa

RankAgencyTotal Points
1TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg263
2Y&R South Africa41
3Net#work BBDO Johannesburg22
4Draftfcb Johannesburg21
5Net#work BBDO Cape Town17
5The Jupiter Drawing Room South Africa17
7Metropolitan Republic8
8FoxP26
9DDB South Africa4
9Ogilvy Cape Town4
11Grey South Africa2
11Ireland Davenport2
11It's a Go Communications2
11JWT Cape Town2
11King James2
11Lowe Bull2
11Ogilvy Johannesburg2
11The Jupiter Drawing Room South Africa2
11whatwewant Branded Entertainment2

2010 Advertising agency: regional filter South Africa

RankAgencyTotal Points
1TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg161
2Y&R South Africa39
3Net#work BBDO Johannesburg22
4Draftfcb Johannesburg21
5Metropolitan Republic8
6DDB South Africa4
6FoxP24
6Ogilvy Cape Town4
9JWT Cape Town2
9Lowe Bull2
9Net#work BBDO Cape Town2
9Ogilvy Johannesburg2
9The Jupiter Drawing Room South Africa2
9whatwewant Branded Entertainment2

2010 Design agency: regional filter South Africa

RankAgencyTotal Points
1TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg102
2The Jupiter Drawing Room South Africa17
3Net#work BBDO Cape Town15
4FoxP22
4Grey South Africa2
4Ireland Davenport2
4It's a Go Communications2
4King James2
4Y&R South Africa2

Methodology

As explained by the two organisations, "There's no black box, complex criteria, or mystery in our method - just a simple league table that shows you where your agency or brand stands based on performance in the two most highly-regarded, rigorously-judged, not-for-profit awards shows in the world. If your work, your agency or your brand does well here, it really means something.

How it's done:

  1. Each award in each show is assigned a points value:

    • D&AD Black Pencil/The One Show Best in Show = 40 points
    • D&AD Yellow Pencil/The One Show Gold = 25 points
    • D&AD Nomination/ The One Show Silver = 15 points
    • The One Show Bronze = 7 points
    • D&AD In-Book = 4 points
    • The One Show Merit = 2 points

  2. These points are combined to provide the basis for several league tables:

    • Agency of the Year (based on the points accumulated by each entrant office across all D&AD and The One Club Awards categories)
    • Agency of the Year - Advertising (based on the points accumulated by each entrant office across One Show and all D&AD Awards advertising categories)
    • Agency of the Year - Design (based on the points accumulated by each entrant office across One Show Design and all D&AD Awards design categories)
    • Agency of the Year - Interactive (based on the points accumulated by each entrant office across One Show Interactive and all D&AD Awards interactive categories)
    • Client of the Year (based on the points accumulated by each client across all D&AD and The One Club Awards categories)

Work eligible for entry to D&AD and The One Club must have been commercially released between 1 January and 31 December of the previous year.

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