Avatar Agency Group has announced its acquisition of Espresso DBN. The independent Durban-based ad agency has sold 51% equity to M&N Brands, the holding company that owns Avatar. The deal will result in Espresso being renamed Avatar DBN...
South African entrepreneur Andile Mathobela has launched TheJournalistDJ.com, a digital video magazine documenting the dance culture in South Africa...
Evan-Lee Courie 20 Jul 2020
The growth of mass market digital content. That's the biggest shape-shifting, game-changing trend I am seeing...
Zibusiso Mkhwanazi 19 Dec 2019
One of the most interesting sessions of the DStv Seminar of Creativity at #Loeries2019 creative week touched on the difference between inherent and acquired diversity. But many gloss over these terms as business jargon and don't even know which is which, and why both are valuable to your creativity...
Leigh Andrews 30 Aug 2019
What do clients want the most from us? To help them connect better with mass markets with mass buying power...
Zibusiso Mkhwanazi 30 Aug 2019
The 2019 SABRE Awards Africa winners were handed out following on the annual African Public Relations Association (AFPRA) conference in Kigali, Rwanda, last week...
Marketing and communications holding group M&N Brands has announced the launch of its content hub M&N Entertainment, which has made its first acquisition through the purchase of online youth entertainment magazine, Zkhiphani.com...
Zibusiso Mkhwanazi, founder of M&N brands, Avatar's holding company and Jerry Mpufane, chairman of M&C Saatchi Group confirmed in a statement that the two companies will amicably part and go their separate ways...
Jessica Tennant 28 Aug 2018
The annual Apex events were held at the Sandton Convention Centre today, 16 July, where the Association for Communication and Advertising hosted its 'NeXt Level of Thinking Masterclass' and the Apex Awards...
Ticket sales are open and selling fast for the two 2018 Apex Awards events being held on Monday, 16 July 2018 at The Sandton Convention Centre...
Avatar Cape Town has won the integrated 2018 campaign for H&M, marking the global retail giant's first locally produced campaign, including ATL, digital, social, BTL and PR...
Legal trumps public relations nearly every time. Class action suit anyone?
Keri-Ann Stanton 20 Apr 2018
Sixty-plus judges from a multitude of professions and industries judged this year's entries. Entries were judged online. The various panels then convened to discussed and debated, to come to the final winners...
What is it clients want the most from their PR agencies? And what do PR agencies want from their clients? The answer, it turns out, is simple and not a big ask after all...
The judging for this year's Prism Awards has been wrapped up and the stellar lineup of over 60 judges alongside 11 Prisms young judges have deliberated on over 230 entries...
This week, we go behind the selfie with technophile Veli Ngubane, 34-year-old founding partner and chief creative officer at Avatar...
Leigh Andrews 30 Jan 2018
Earlier this week, it was announced that M&N Brands has acquired Mela Events. Here, M&N Brands Group CEO Zibusiso Mkhwanazi and Mela Events' owners, Tiziana Tucci and Enelra Booth, let us in on what the acquisition foretells of M&N Brands' pan-African future...
Leigh Andrews 13 Dec 2017
Last night, Wednesday, 22 November, the winners of the 2017 Financial Mail AdFocus Awards were announced at an event held at The Empire Conference and Events venue in Parktown, Gauteng...