The Interactive Advertising Bureau South Africa has announced the appointment of Alistair Mokoena, CEO of Ogilvy South Africa, as its new chairman, and Claire Cobbledick, GM of Gumtree, as IAB SA vice-chair...
Issued by IAB South Africa 12 Dec 2019
The Bookmarks Special Honours Category is where the industry recognises those individuals, skills and companies that have gone beyond the benchmark in digital...
Issued by IAB South Africa 28 Nov 2019
The IAB SA has announced a panel of industry leaders who will judge the Bookmark Awards in 2020...
Issued by IAB South Africa 14 Nov 2019
9 Oct 2019
The 2020 IAB SA Bookmark Awards are open for entries. With a focus on digital excellence, tangible business impact, and a simplified entry process, this industry award is poised to represent the best in digital for 2020...
Issued by IAB South Africa 3 Oct 2019
The IAB SA Bookmark Awards has announced Andrea Quaye, Vice President of Marketing at Anheuser-Busch InBev, as the 2020/2021 Jury President...
Issued by IAB South Africa 27 Sep 2019
IAB SA CEO Paula Hulley, this week, announced the synergistic collaboration between the organisation representing the interests of the South African digital industry and the Nedbank IMC Conference in 2020...
19 Sep 2019
Hoorah Digital, the leading digital transformation consultancy that believes in the marriage of data, creativity, and media tech, unveiled its new look and innovative digital marketing solutions at the business' head office in Bryanston, Johannesburg...
Issued by Irvine Partners 10 Sep 2019
Duke, Mark1 and Positive Dialogue have combined their collective agency expertise to form the Duke Group...
29 Jul 2019
Justpalm.com could be interested in working with you...
Issued by Justpalm 26 Jun 2019
With one of his first-ever TV commercials, Nare Mokgotho has won gold at the 20th Shots Young Director Awards held annually during the Cannes Lions Festival. The ad is for the Showmax Zero Bucks Given campaign...
Issued by Showmax 24 Jun 2019
In the final session of Red & Yellow School's #digitalagencyshowcase, King James Group co-founder Alistair King shared his 'secret sauce' on the thinking that keeps them top of the Loeries and IAB Bookmarks' digital agency rankings in South Africa...
Leigh Andrews 20 May 2019
In what's become known as the most diverse and inclusive session of the Red & Yellow School's #digitalagencyshowcase, VML South Africa's marketing director Loki Magerman was joined by Tumelo Popela, Jason Kubheka and Louise Steenpoorte in showcasing how their work gets to the true heart of the SA consumer...
Leigh Andrews 17 May 2019
In the third session of the second digital agency showcase, held at Red & Yellow School on 16 May 2019, alumnus Johann Schwella, now digital creative director at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, said the drive is no longer just to be best in class but only in class. Agencies today are not competing with other agencies but with culture, making it harder than ever to stand out. Here's how to do so...
Leigh Andrews 17 May 2019
Rob Stokes, chairman of Red and Yellow School, got their second #digitalagencyshowcase underway by calling Mark Tomlinson and Robyn Campbell of HelloFCB+ to the podium, to explain the process of combining Hellocomputer and FCB Cape Town as HelloFCB+, and why the 'plus' is silent but so important...
Leigh Andrews 16 May 2019
UPDATE: Details have been announced for Matthew Buckland's Cape Town memorial service...
23 Apr 2019
Eyewitness News recently won a Bookmarks' Gold for its Poisonous Bullets: The Silent Betrayal of Sindiso Magaqa three-part podcast series...
Jessica Tennant 16 Apr 2019
Boo-Yah! founder Carmen Murray walked away with the award for the 'Best Individual Contribution to Digital' at this year's Bookmarks and explains why she believes that the importance of digital is to be of service to humans first...
Juanita Pienaar 15 Apr 2019
The industry's lack of diversity and inclusion was made notably clear by last year's #TimesUp movement, largely focused on equality in race and gender. Now, with a rise of 'diversity and inclusion' focused roles popping in advertising, here's why it's important to focus on a range of ages and experience levels for true business transformation...
Leigh Andrews 12 Apr 2019
In this episode of #StateoftheMedia, Nadia Hearn of 2OceansVibe Radio chats to Leigh Andrews, Editor-in-Chief of Marketing & Media and Angie White, Head Of the Press Office Department at Bizcommunity.com about the April Fool’s Day jokes reported by the media, the #Momochallenge hoax and the IAB’s annual Bookmark Awards...
12 Apr 2019
Having won the same award in 2017, Nomacala Mpeta, head of learning at Digify Africa, explains why they're proud to be recognised a second time for leading the push for transformation in digital and encourages more agencies and NGOs to recognise the need to do so as a business imperative in corporate SA...
Jessica Tennant 11 Apr 2019
Holly Meadows, editor of Cosmopolitan SA walked away with the award for 'Best Marketer' at the 11th annual Bookmark Awards hosted at The Forum in Bryanston last month...
Juanita Pienaar 9 Apr 2019
Choma, an online magazine aimed at young South African women, was nominated in the Public Service and NPO Platforms category and walked away with a silver award at this year's Bookmark Awards...
Issued by Arc Interactive 4 Apr 2019
Once again Ogilvy and its clients managed to lead the Bookmarks in the increasingly important categories of Mobile, CRM, Loyalty programmes, Gamification, Content Strategy, Online Video and Social Media...
Issued by Ogilvy & Mather 4 Apr 2019
CellCgirl walked away with a Silver Pixel at the prestigious IAB Bookmarks Awards last Thursday night...
Issued by Arc Interactive 4 Apr 2019
The 11th annual IAB Bookmarks Awards took place at The Forum in Bryanston on 28 March 2019. The awards culminated in 142 winners. Below are images of the ceremony.
29 Mar 2019
The King James Group not only took home Best Agency and its client Sanlam, Best Brand, the agency also won a whopping 32 awards at the 11th annual Bookmarks last night.
Danette Breitenbach 29 Mar 2019
The 11th annual Bookmark Awards, hosted at The Forum in Bryanston last night, 28 March 2019, culminated in 142 winners, all truly representative of the South African digital landscape...
Issued by IAB South Africa 29 Mar 2019
The IAB has announced its finalists for the 11th Annual Bookmark Awards that will be held at The Forum, Bryanston on 28 March 2019...
Issued by IAB South Africa 1 Mar 2019
This week, we go behind the selfie with Jerry Mpufane, chairman of the M&C Saatchi JHB Group as well as IAB SA Bookmark Awards jury president...
Leigh Andrews 26 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
IAB SA has announced that ticket sales are now open for 11th Annual Bookmark Awards that will be held at The Forum, Bryanston on 28 March 2019...
Issued by IAB South Africa 12 Feb 2019
Pernod Ricard recently announced that Charl Bassil is leaving Pernod Ricard SA to go and head up Absolut Vodka globally...
18 Dec 2018
The IAB SA has announced a panel of industry leaders who will judge the Bookmark Awards in 2019...
Issued by IAB South Africa 8 Nov 2018
M&C Saatchi Abel was one of the IAB Bookmark Awards' top six-ranked digital agencies presenting at the Digital Agency Showcase at Red & Yellow School. Founding partner Jason Harrison explained why Miley Cyrus is more influential than Stephen Hawking...
Leigh Andrews 31 Oct 2018
Network BBDO is one of the IAB Bookmark Awards' top six-ranked digital agencies of the year, and so presented at last week's Digital Agency Showcase at Red & Yellow School. ECD Brad Reilly showed some non-digital work and others in the automotive space. Remember Raj and Raj 2?
Leigh Andrews 31 Oct 2018
In introducing Hellocomputer as one of the IAB Bookmark Awards' top six-ranked digital agencies presenting at last week's Digital Agency Showcase at Red & Yellow School, group MD Mark Tomlinson placed emphasis on being more human in these digital times...
Leigh Andrews 30 Oct 2018
Evan Milton of Ogilvy SA kicked off last week's Digital Agency Showcase with insights into what it means to be an advertising agency in these digital, connected times and shared the power of co-authoring brave work with brands...
Leigh Andrews 29 Oct 2018
In the final session of Red & Yellow's Digital Agency Showcase, Matt Ross, founder and CCO at King James Digital, shared a presentation that touched on the power of sharing ideas in the right time and place, presented from his iPhone...
Leigh Andrews 26 Oct 2018
Matthew Buckland explains his latest role change at Creative Spark, what it means for Burn Media going forward, and the biggest digital media trends he's anticipating from 2018...
Leigh Andrews 24 Apr 2018
The IAB SA today announced that Paula Hulley is succeeding former CEO Josephine Buys...
Jessica Tennant 18 Apr 2018
A key component for the award entry, regardless of the category or sector, is the submission video. Darren Kerr goes through some of the key elements of producing an award-winning video...
Darren Kerr 9 Mar 2018
M&C Saatchi Abel's founding partner and ECD Gordon Ray shares the power of work "rich with local insight and executed with heart," while founding partner and chief executive Jacques Burger explains how M&C Saatchi Abel is motoring ahead in 2018...
Leigh Andrews 7 Mar 2018
FCB Africa and its agencies - FCB Cape Town, FCB Joburg and Hellocomputer - landed 11 Pixels for five different clients at the IAB Bookmark Awards, including a highly sought-after Black Pixel...
Issued by FCB Joburg 6 Mar 2018
Catherine Grenfell, ex-5FM presenter who co-founded and manages The Eye radio station, opened this year's IAB Digital Summit sharing her experience of digital and what she predicts for the industry...
Jessica Tennant 5 Mar 2018