Winners of Cinemark's Cannes Young Lions 2019 competition, Amri Botha and Carina Coetzee from Ninety9cents (99c), chat to us about what it means to them to have won the competition for a second time...
Juanita Pienaar 3 days ago
I chatted to the international jury presidents ahead of the upcoming Loeries Creative Week. Next in the series is this year's Google digital communication jury president Tara McKenty, creative director for Google APAC...
Leigh Andrews 15 May 2019
Seven South African creatives have been selected as judges for this year's Cannes Lions...
9 May 2019
This week we go behind the selfie with Mikhaila Hunter, manager: strategic relationships and marketing at Fort...
Leigh Andrews 7 May 2019
Pete Case, Ogilvy South Africa's chief creative and innovation officer, has been promoted to Ogilvy's 12-member Worldwide Creative Council.
3 May 2019
3 May 2019
In our annual #AfricaMonth catch-up, Loeries CEO Andrew Human chats about what to expect from Loeries 2019, why judges are briefed to look for locally relevant experiences and communications, and the rising importance of brand humanity and problem-solving in creativity against the continued shift away from merely punting the client product or service...
Leigh Andrews 2 May 2019
Ninety9cents (99c) Cape Town has appointed Dane Alexander as creative director of the agency's through-the-Line portfolio...
Issued by Ninety9cents 30 Apr 2019
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, has been awarded the 2019 Cannes LionHeart in recognition of her advocacy for women, human rights and social justice...
30 Apr 2019
The One Club for Creativity's Creative Week is just around the corner, taking place in New York City from 6 to 10 May 2019. Here, SA's own Jenny Ehlers shares her experiences as a juror on this year's Art Director's Club (ADC) interactive and integrated panels...
Leigh Andrews 29 Apr 2019
99c advertising and communication agency's copywriter Carina Coetzee and art director Amri Botha will once again represent South Africa at the Cannes Lions international Festival of Creativity this year, as their video commercial as briefed by Unicef about violence in schools won Cinemark's Cannes Young Lions 2019 competition...
25 Apr 2019
Cinemark has announced the panel of judges that have been selected to judge this year's edition of the South African leg of the Film category of the Young Lions competition...
12 Apr 2019
Following on from his stint as a juror for Cannes Lions 2018, creative director and designer of VM DSGN Vumile Mavumengwana is the only SA juror selected for this year's White Square Ad Festival. Here, he explains what he's most looking forward to from the judging experience and the impact of the global creative community recognising Africa and South Africa in particular...
Leigh Andrews 26 Mar 2019
Cinemark has announced a call for entries for the Cannes Young Lions competition (Film category), seeking young, local talent to showcase on a global stage...
25 Mar 2019
The Kantar insight division's Duncan Southgate, global brand director of media and Jane Ostler, global head of media, recently presented a global webinar session in headline findings from their latest AdReaction study on the challenges of gender-progressive marketing and getting gender right in advertising. Here's what you missed...
Leigh Andrews 14 Mar 2019
MediaCom has topped the WARC Media 100 for the second year in a row. MediaCom was named as the Agency Network of the Year, while MediaCom Israel was named Agency of the Year...
Issued by MediaCom 12 Mar 2019
12 Mar 2019
Having recently completed five months of intense fieldwork among the UK's leading companies which include many global brands, Agency Scope UK 2018/2019 has provided a few key insights from UK chief marketing officers...
11 Mar 2019
Warc has announced the results of the Warc Media 100, an independent annual ranking of the world's most awarded campaigns and companies for creativity and innovation in media...
11 Mar 2019
Three days of Design Indaba inspiration culminated in headline act David Droga, whose career in advertising traverses Saatchi & Saatchi in London, Publicis, NYC, to starting his own New York-based agency, Droga5 in 2006...
Terry Levin 4 Mar 2019
Ann Nurock interviews David Droga, the most awarded creative at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity and the youngest person ever inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame...
Ann Nurock 4 Mar 2019
The award shows tracked for the Warc Effective 100 and Warc Media 100 rankings have been revealed...
27 Feb 2019
Digital consultancy Hoorah Digital has acquired creative storytelling agency Ritual Studio, the agency founded by renowned creative and former Hellocomputer Executive Creator Director (ECD) Simon Spreckley...
Issued by Irvine Partners 25 Feb 2019
Campaign Palau Pledge, agency BBDO New York, network BBDO Worldwide, holding company Omnicom Group, brand Burger King and advertiser Mars top the rankings and South Africa has placed ninth...
25 Feb 2019
Three South African creatives have been selected to serve on the jury for international advertising awards competition Dubai Lynx 2019...
20 Feb 2019
As submissions open for Cannes Lions 2019, DAN SA catches up with Mike Middleton, multiaward-winning brand strategist and futurist, about what makes award-worthy work. (Plus, a few words from Koo Govender on awards entries.)...
Issued by Dentsu Aegis Network 12 Feb 2019
SA's own Melusi 'Mloo' Mhlungu, now at David Miami, worked on one of the 2019 Super Bowl ads...
Leigh Andrews 31 Jan 2019
29 Jan 2019
24 Jan 2019
Havas has announced the appointment of John Davenport as its new chief creative officer. He will be based in Johannesburg, leading creative across all disciplines within the Havas Village in South Africa...
Issued by Havas Johannesburg 23 Jan 2019
UPDATE: 7Films has announced the details for SJ Myeza's memorial service...
15 Jan 2019
The Pantone colour of the year for 2018 was the deep, dreamy Ultra Violet. But for 2019, get ready for peachy under-the-sea Living Coral...
7 Dec 2018
NEWSWATCH: Unilever CMO Keith Weed will retire from the role next year, after 35 years at the company...
6 Dec 2018
The Kimberly-Clark-Ogilvy relationship has proven its effectiveness again, with Kimberly-Clark making it onto the podium in third spot in the latest Loeries Rankings. Here, Catherine Wanliss, creative director at Ogilvy and Morne van Emmenes, senior brand manager at Kimberly-Clark, share how they keep winning the race...
Leigh Andrews 27 Nov 2018
According to a recent study of most clickable headlines in social media, the headline above has the highest chance of getting noticed...
Michael Lees-Rolfe, Issued by Dentsu Aegis Network 20 Nov 2018
One of FCB Africa's sister agencies, FCB Inferno, has launched the latest evolution of its "This Girl Can" campaign with Sport England, entitled "Fit Got Real"...
Issued by FCB Africa 12 Nov 2018
From baby boomers to baby busters, from millennials to Generation Z to Generation Alpha. Underneath that manicured beard, behind that selfie-obsessed Instagram feed, people are still people...
Andrew Whitehouse, Issued by Dentsu Aegis Network 16 Oct 2018
Cinemark is giving creatives and all fans from South Africa's three key cities the opportunity to feast on the best commercials globally from the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity...
Issued by Cinemark 8 Oct 2018
The director behind some of South Africa's most iconic TV ads has passed away...
2 Oct 2018
Why brands should use the TWSTWT test to validate media research...
Sue Unerman, Issued by MediaCom 19 Sep 2018
This week, we got behind the selfie with SA export Damon Stapleton, now chief creative officer at DDB New Zealand...
Leigh Andrews 18 Sep 2018
FCB Joburg has promoted two extremely talented women to executive creative directors and appointed three new exco members - all of them women...
Issued by FCB Africa 17 Sep 2018
Cinemark, the official South African Cannes Lions representatives, in partnership with Bizcommunity, hosted the annual Insights and Trends from Cannes Lions sessions, which took place in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 29 August, and in Cape Town on Friday, 31 August...
Terry Levin, Issued by Bizcommunity.com 4 Sep 2018
The annual Insights and Trends from Cannes Lions sessions took place in Johannesburg on 29 August 2018 and in Cape Town on 31 August 2018. The sessions unpacked the Cannes Lions award-winning creative thinking for corporate, business, and industry guests.
3 Sep 2018
Fabian Frese, chief creative officer at Kolle Rebbe in Germany, second-last speaker at the DStv Seminar of Creativity, spoke of the boredom that inspired him to make the best move in his career...
Angie White 17 Aug 2018
Key women within Joe Public United have naturally risen through the ranks to take their rightful places amongst the leadership, with female MDs across the seven specialist businesses...
Issued by Joe Public United 17 Aug 2018
Faith Popcorn, the Nostradamus of marketing and most accurate futurist, called it out in her book, "Eve"olution in 2000 about how women would rise and revolutionise society. While we still have a long way to go, our society has reached a tipping point. Women are calling for gender parity, especially in previously male-dominated industries such as Stem...
Carmen Murray 8 Aug 2018
It's finally Loeries Creative Week 2018! Here's some insight from Ian Mackenzie, ECD at FCB Six, Canada and this year's Loeries 'integrated campaign', 'print and out of home (OOH)' and crafts jury president...
Leigh Andrews 8 Aug 2018
Don't miss Ian Mackenzie, Executive Creative Director at FCB/SIX, Canada, at the DStv Seminar of Creativity...
Issued by Loeries 2 Aug 2018