Marketing & Media Multimedia South Africa

Google, in collaboration with Net#work BBDO, has released a video commemorating Africa Day. The message on the video centres around unity, reinforcing the brand’s “helpful” role. The video celebrates everything African using YouTube videos from content creators from across the continent. This is part of Google’s Africa Day roll-out this year, with the YouTube x Viacom Africa Day concert ieaturing talent from across the continent and the African diaspora. Watch the video below:...

Blood & Water is a South African teen drama series that will premiere on Netflix on 20 May. The entertainment service gathered five talented young local photographers Neo Baepi, Jonathan Ferreira, Lindsey Appolis, Tegan Smith and Mosa Hlope to capture a range of behind the scenes imagery of the cast and crew.

SaSalutes, an initiative driven by Mediclinic and the Dentsu Aegis Network, is a platform created for the public to share their thank you's with all South Africa's healthcare teams on the frontline every night.

Reputation management consultancy, Magna Carta, is using animation to educate people on the symptoms of the novel coronavirus and encourage them to practice physical distancing to curb the spread of the virus. The animated short video will be translated into 20 commonly spoken African languages and will also be available for anyone outside of Africa to translate it to a language of their choice for distribution to the communities outside of the continent.   The video includes education around washing hands, cutting non-essential travel, avoiding or cancelling large-scale public gatherings, physical distancing and remote working and is ideal for social media sharing.   Watch the video below:...

The Women of Excellence business leadership event took place at the Alfajiri Hub at Johannesburg's Maboneng precinct on 18 March, despite coronavirus (Covid-19) concerns. The speaker panel at the event included Alesimo Mwanga from Youth Entrepreneurship Exchange Program (YEEP) Africa, OYA co-founder, Rehema Isa, and the United Nations Women South Africa program associate, Thobela Gceya. The panellists discussed, among others, topics on how to develop action plans, recognise strengths and weaknesses, as well as general business, lifestyle and relationship issues. Here are the highlights from the Women of Excellence business leadership event:...

Global network for women in advertising and creative industries, SheSays, held its first Cape Town event of 2020 on 10 March. SheSays Cape Town co-director Anelde Greeff moderated the panel, which included head of marketing and communications at Zeitz Mocaa Annicia Manyaapelo, CEO of RushTush Rushda Moosajee and media consultant and author Vanessa Raphaely. The panellists shared ideas and stories on reinvention, handling failure, and staying motivated, creative and innovative.

Veli Ngubane - MD & Founding Partner of Avatar Agency and Head of Transformation, Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Transformation Council in conversation with Rutendo Nyamuda about 'Front Row' the IAB's initiative to provide support and opportunities related to transformation within the digital media & marketing industry by providing the youth with access to information, events and industry's top leaders.

The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government, in partnership with Mastercard, hosted the Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC Complex in Durban on Friday, 6 March 2020. This year's summit was themed 'The Ceiling Crashers 2.0: Power with Purpose' and attracted over 40 leading women to its high-impact speaking programme. Here are the highlights from the summit:.

The 2020 edition of the Design Indaba took place at the Artscape Theatre Centre in Cape Town from 26 to 28 February 2020. Thousands of creatives, emerging creatives, design experts, speakers and delegates gathered to inspire and empower each other to create a better future through design and creativity. Here are the highlights of this year's Design Indaba.

This campaign film made by Cut Media for Real Madrid celebrates the time-honoured and precious rituals shared by the Real Madrid family. The film was shot in Madrid and showcases the pre-match rituals practised by Real Madrid players, club staff, fans and devotees.

The New York Festivals International Advertising Awards released two new episodes of “Creativity From The Other Side” with David Sable this week, with two more episodes set to be launch next week. The 30 to 40-minute episodes are hosted by WPP senior advisor David Sable and feature interviews with creatives from various areas of art and business. In this episode, Sable chats to VMLY&R NY executive creative director NY and 2020 NYF executive jury member, Nathalie Brown:...

VMLY&R did a campaign for Standard Bank called "#RewriteTheRules" that poses the question: “Do the rules on how we treat each other feel wrong?” The campaign aims to encourage everyone to question, understand, and debate our social norms on gender equity.