Good year for Searle Street Post

As an agency offering intensive visual effects and compositing projects, the Cape Town postproduction company Searle Street Post collected a Visual Effects Craft Loerie for Allan Gray Time Flies and produced a string of quality CGI-driven commercials. 6 Dec 2012 08:15

Girl's shelter benefits from Chevrolet CSR team

Chevrolet Ute Force has helped renovate Ons Plek, the residential child and youth care centre in Cape Town that provides developmental and therapeutic services for girls who have lived, worked or begged on the streets. 6 Dec 2012 07:57

Applications to AAA open until late January 2013

To assist in alleviating stress over career choices, in educating the public about the various careers available in advertising and in shifting the focus to private college course options, the AAA School of Advertising has extended its 2013 application date to 21 January 2013, unlike the majority of tertiary educational institutions that close for applications by the end of September. 6 Dec 2012 07:30

Happy birthday SMS

This week sees the 20th anniversary of the SMS, invented in 1992 by British engineer, Neil Papworth. Initially slow, the boom in SMS saw more than 150 billion SMS sent in the UK in 2011, almost triple the amount that was sent five years previously (in 2006, there were 51 billion text messages sent). 6 Dec 2012 07:24

[Biz Takeouts Lineup] 48: Youth-based communication solutions

To find out more about character-based entertainment products, youth-orientated content and communications solutions, tune in to our last Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show for 2012, streamed live from 5pm-6pm via 2oceansVibe Radio. The studio guest this Thursday evening, 6 December 2012, will be Richard Morgan-Grenville, CEO of Strika Entertainment. [twitterfall] 6 Dec 2012 07:05

SABC does the can-can

NEWSWATCH: The SABC canned three print media commentators discussing coverage of the road to Mangaung (see SABC ... at it again) on a Metro FM show, because, according to Times Live, the ANC was not invited to join the debate. Meanwhile, it's the "jug-jug" for musician Jub Jub who has got 25 years for his role in the death of four teenagers, reports Mail & Guardian. 6 Dec 2012 06:51

Inevitable that Caxton and I would fall out - Alec Hogg

[Gill Moodie] Many in the industry really felt for Alec Hogg in October when he walked away from Moneyweb, the company he built from nothing into a highly respected player in the media industry. Hogg tells Bizcommunity why he's philosophical about the move, what he's doing with his year's restraint of trade and what was so different about the values of majority shareholder Caxton and his own that made it impossible for him to stay on as Moneyweb CEO and board member. 6 Dec 2012 06:47

'Hiking boot Christmas' on the cards

[Aki Kalliatakis] 'Hiking boots' could feature high on the Christmas list of walkabout consumers this year as price hikes and sky-high petrol prices get them trudging round stores in a quest for bargains rather than little luxuries. 6 Dec 2012 06:04

PictureNet

Associated Press renews licence with Johannesburg picture agency, PictureNet

[Issued by PictureNet] The association between PictureNet, a South African picture agency and US newsgathering agency Associated Press (AP) has been renewed for its 10th year. This enables PictureNet to source a vast selection of historical, commercial and breaking news photographs as they happen and make them available to its clients in Africa. 5 Dec 2012 11:46

Fresh Eye Film Productions

Game Stores slapping new ad campaign from Dani Hynes and Fresh Eye

[Issued by Fresh Eye Film Productions] Game Stores festive season ad campaign kicked off with a bang in the form of a quirky new offering from Ogilvy Durban. Produced by Fresh Eye Productions and Directed by Dani Hynes, the ad, takes an offbeat look at the crucial elements of the festive season. 5 Dec 2012 10:47

Graffiti

Graffiti creates rhino-hype with branded Rhino Force vehicle

[Issued by Graffiti] Vehicle branding experts, Graffiti, have shown their commitment to the protection of the rhino species in the best way they know how - by sponsoring the branding of the Mitsubishi Triton vehicle used by Rhino Force, an organisation that activates cause-related initiatives to support conservation, environmental and social upliftment. 5 Dec 2012 10:30

Rick de Kock appointed MD of M&CSaatchi Africa

Until recently, Rick de Kock was the director of Africa Operations for TBWA\Africa where he managed the network of 15 offices across 13 countries on the continent. M&C Saatchi has now appointed him to lead its charge into Africa. 5 Dec 2012 10:19

Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

UCKG's Women in Action drive 16 Days of Activism through interactive projects

[Issued by Universal Church of the Kingdom of God] Women in Action (WiA), a group of pastors' and bishops' wives from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), were invited to participate in the Gauteng Legislature's awareness expo and the commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism and World Aids Day. 5 Dec 2012 10:01

ECHO Events and Conferences

The ECHO for Children Foundation oversees Kraaifontein crèche overhaul

[Issued by ECHO Events and Conferences] The ECHO for Children Foundation, in conjunction with Vanilla Concrete Design and Manufacturing Studio and Eikestad Plumbing, joined forces in what has been the Foundation's most challenging project to date. 5 Dec 2012 09:56