Draftfcb South Africa's clients have swept the boards at a special awards ceremony marking 25 years of Millward Brown's Adtrack survey in South Africa confirming, once again, the agency's ability to create advertising that touches the heart and soul of the South African consumer. 9 Feb 2010 11:23
The winner and finalists of the design for the 2010 YoungGuns Call for Entry Campaign will be announced Friday, 12 February 2010 by Young Guns International. From all the entrants to the 2009 creative brief, a shortlist of 10 has been selected to end up with one winner, one highly commended and eight finalists. 9 Feb 2010 08:26


varder@troika is the result of a formalised co-working agreement between Sandton-based brand communications company Troika Imagineering Works and copywriter Mark Varder. Varder is now a Troika client, drawing on the agency's design and production support when required and at the same time, Troika will draw on Varder's extensive experience as needed - making Troika a client of Varder. 9 Feb 2010 08:14
The Ogilvy Durban group celebrated late last week its recent move into new premises in the Point Development in Mahatma Gandhi Road, Durban. 9 Feb 2010 07:43
In the first week of flighting the most recent Isuzu Trucks F-series radio ad created by McCann Erickson it not only drew the attention of Jenny Crwys-Williams from 702, who said it made her “toes curl in pleasure”, but was also awarded an Orchid by Brendan Seery in the Saturday Star. 8 Feb 2010 10:09
The 2010 Flux Trend Review conference, powered by BlackBerry and hosted by trend analyst Dion Chang, will take place in Johannesburg on Thursday, 25 February 2010, at the UJ Arts Centre Theatre. It will also be combined with the first-ever Digital Lab workshop to be launched in South Africa by creative studio Studio 4332, an affiliate of Proximity Worldwide, on Friday 26 February. 5 Feb 2010 12:02
Volcano Advertising's latest commercial for Sony features an interesting collage of animated images that highlight the Sony VAIO personal computer brand offering. 5 Feb 2010 11:40
Hot off the press, the 31st Loerie printed annual of 313 pages is now available with a complementary DVD set at R605 (excl. vat). 5 Feb 2010 09:29
With effect from 1 April 2010, MediaVest South Africa will handle all strategic media planning requirements for Nissan South Africa. 5 Feb 2010 08:06
Aegis Media South Africa, which has three media communications agencies, Carat SA, Full Circle Media and Vizeum, as well as Trigger, a digital and mobile communications company, has announced that Edu van Rijswijk, chair of Aegis Media and MD of Carat has retired, effective end January 2010. 5 Feb 2010 07:53
A special January 2010 edition of AdVantage, which focuses on what we can expect from 2010 across the media, marketing and advertising industry, includes the predicted 100 ‘things' that you should watch out for in 2010. JWT Johannesburg has collated this in collaboration with Ann Mack, its global trend expert. 4 Feb 2010 11:54
In August 2009 PenQuin International advertising agency began searching for exactly why Joburg is such a great place to stay. It didn't take long to discover that the answer was incredibly powerful: the people. 2 Feb 2010 09:48