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EXCLUSIVE: IAB South Africa releases the first Bookmarks Digital Rankings 2025

IAB Bookmarks Awards

EXCLUSIVE: IAB South Africa releases the first Bookmarks Digital Rankings 2025

20 hours

2025: A transformative year for global advertising defined by growth, upheaval, and opportunity

Digital

2025: A transformative year for global advertising defined by growth, upheaval, and opportunity

Issued by Hoorah Digital 1 day

SA creatives secure 8 spots on The One Show 2026 Jury

The One Club for Creativity

SA creatives secure 8 spots on The One Show 2026 Jury

1 day

(Image supplied)

Marketing & Media

Scopen SA’s most admired creative and media agency professionals for 2025

2 days

Joe Public was the standout winner.

Pendoring

All the 2025 iPendoring Awards winners

3 days

Omnicom's restructure: Who's in and who's out

Marketing & Media

Omnicom's restructure: Who's in and who's out

3 Dec 2025

#Effies2025 | Halo and Pineapple: 100% sustained results

Effie Awards

#Effies2025 | Halo and Pineapple: 100% sustained results

Danette Breitenbach 28 Nov 2025

#Effies2025 | Ogilvy and VW: Creating campaigns for societal change

Effie Awards

#Effies2025 | Ogilvy and VW: Creating campaigns for societal change

Danette Breitenbach 27 Nov 2025

All the FM AdFocus Awards winners (Image Danette Breitenbach © Bizcommunity)

Advertising

All the FM AdFocus Awards 2025 winners: Ogilvy leads the pack

26 Nov 2025

Following last month’s ACA Effie Awards, Gillian Rightford, executive director, shares her thoughts on the Awards (Image: Bizcommunity)

Effie Awards

#EffieAwards2025 | Gillian Rightford: The Alchemy of Effectiveness

27 Nov 2025

#Effies2025 | Sanlam's F-Show breaks through the finance category

Effie Awards

#Effies2025 | Sanlam's F-Show breaks through the finance category

Danette Breitenbach 26 Nov 2025

#Effies2025 | TBWA's City Lodge's SOS Grand Effie campaign

Effie Awards

#Effies2025 | TBWA's City Lodge's SOS Grand Effie campaign

Danette Breitenbach 26 Nov 2025

Windhoek Beer’s new campaign, Real Beer, Real Food and Nothing Else has hit the streets with the arrival of the Windhoek Beer Hops Truck (image supplied)

Promotions & Activations

#BehindtheCampaign: Real Beer, Real Food and Nothing Else

18 Nov 2025

Creative legend John Hunt retires

Advertising

Creative legend John Hunt retires

11 Nov 2025

#BehindtheCampaign: Daily Sun style campaign busts cancer myths

Advertising

#BehindtheCampaign: Daily Sun style campaign busts cancer myths

7 Nov 2025

Thule Ngcese, creative partner & co-founder at Distrikt 9, a supplier development partner of VML South Africa, has watched from the jury room as work out of the Middle East increasingly dominates the Loeries. The South African creative industry, he says, needs to up its game (Image supplied)

Advertising

Thule Ngcese: "Time to lead, not follow. SA needs to up its game."

Thule Ngcese 7 Nov 2025

$The TBWA\Hunt Lascaris Save Our Stay campaign takes aim at the unpredictable world of short-term rentals and is an example of how funny isn’t frivolous, it’s effective (Image supplied)$

Advertising

Humour is our superpower and it’s no laughing matter

5 Nov 2025

The Financial Mail AdFocus Awards shortlist is out (Image supplied)

Marketing & Media

The Financial Mail AdFocus Awards 2025 shortlist is out!

4 Nov 2025

City Lodge Hotels wins Grand Effie Award for SOS!

Marketing

City Lodge Hotels wins Grand Effie Award for SOS!

Issued by City Lodge Hotels 30 Oct 2025

The Lead Creative: "More creative freedom, less money"

The Lead Creative

The Lead Creative: "More creative freedom, less money"

29 Oct 2025

Magna Carta Reputation Management triumphs at the 2025 Prisms Awards

Prism Awards

Magna Carta Reputation Management triumphs at the 2025 Prisms Awards

Issued by TBWA 24 Oct 2025

Catch up on the VML Birdwatching at The Loeries podcasts (Image: Lesley Svenson © Bizcommunity)

Loeries Creative Week

VML's Birdwatching at The Loeries omnibus: Missed out? Catch up now!

23 Oct 2025

Tseliso Rangaka among One Show 2026 Jury Presidents

The One Club for Creativity

Tseliso Rangaka among One Show 2026 Jury Presidents

22 Oct 2025

$TBWA\Hunt Lascaris and its client City Lodge Hotel Group won the Grand Effie Award 2025 (Image: Bizcommunity, Danette Breitenbach)$

Advertising

TBWA tops the Effies Awards SA

21 Oct 2025

City Lodge Hotels bags 8 Loeries!

Marketing

City Lodge Hotels bags 8 Loeries!

Issued by City Lodge Hotels 15 Oct 2025

Loeries Agency of the Year Joe Public (Image: Loeries, ER Lombard, Gallo Images)

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries2025 Night 2 | All the winners

11 Oct 2025

The finalists for the iPendoring Awards 2025 have officially been announced (Image supplied)

Pendoring

iPendoring Awards 2025 finalists announced

10 Oct 2025

Saatchi & Saatchi Middle East - © Ashley Vlotman - Gallo Images

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries2025 Night 1 | All the winners

10 Oct 2025

VML Birdwatching at The Loeries | Episode 4: The real meaning of creativity

Loeries Creative Week

VML Birdwatching at The Loeries | Episode 4: The real meaning of creativity

Danette Breitenbach 10 Oct 2025

#Loeries2025: Leaders talk love, AI and authenticity

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries2025: Leaders talk love, AI and authenticity

Karabo Ledwaba 9 Oct 2025

AAA and TBWA deliver training in Ghana. Source:

Advertising

AI meets African creativity: AAA and TBWA deliver training in Ghana

7 Oct 2025

Nkanyezi Masango has been appointed chief creative officer for Ogilvy Cape Town. Pictured left to right: Angela Madlala (chief people officer), Kabelo Moshapalo (CCO advertising, Johannesburg), Vicki Buys (MD advertising, Cape Town), Nkanyezi Masango (CCO advertising, Cape Town) Pete Case (group CEO & creative chairman), Neo Makhele (chief strategy officer), Tracey Edwards (MD advertising, Johannesburg), Ipi Thibedi (group MD) (Image supplied)

Advertising

Ogilvy Cape Town appoints Nkanyezi Masango CCO

29 Sep 2025

Nurturing creativity in business

Marketing

Nurturing creativity in business

Issued by eatbigfish 25 Sep 2025

$Global mentorship: TBWA\SA's talent joins the Wright Academy$

Education

Global mentorship: TBWA\SA's talent joins the Wright Academy

16 Sep 2025

$40 years strong: How TBWA\Coastal helped Build it become a household name$

Advertising

40 years strong: How TBWA\Coastal helped Build it become a household name

Issued by TBWA 9 Sep 2025

Source: © 123rf Scopen’s eighth edition of its Agency Scope study in Mexico has found that brands in Mexico are betting on creativity more than ever to stand out and agencies increase their creative recognition

Marketing & Media

Part 2: Agency Scope Mexico – Brands bet on creativity more than ever to stand out

8 Sep 2025

All the 2025 WesBank New Generation Awards finalists

Digital

All the 2025 WesBank New Generation Awards finalists

29 Aug 2025

Brave Group has appointed (l to r) Collin Makhubela – executive creative director, Bibi Bonnecwe – executive creative director and Mosa Ntwampe - head of strategy (Images supplied. Image composite by Lesley Svenson © Bizcommunity)

Advertising

Brave Group adds to leadership with ECD and strategy head appointments

29 Aug 2025

The IAB SA 2025 Bookmarks Awards winners have been announced, with Ogilvy named Best Digital Agency of 2025 (Image supplied)

IAB Bookmarks Awards

Ogilvy and KFC take the double in the IAB Bookmark Awards

15 Aug 2025

IAB SA's Front Row delegates for 2025 announced

Digital

IAB SA's Front Row delegates for 2025 announced

13 Aug 2025

2025 Effie Awards South Africa finalists announced

Marketing

2025 Effie Awards South Africa finalists announced

Issued by Association for Communication and Advertising 12 Aug 2025

Machine, a creative agency within Publicis Groupe Africa, has appointed Lesego Kotane as its new national managing director (Image supplied)

Advertising

Machine appoints Lesego Kotane as managing director

11 Aug 2025

Effie South Africa announces 2025 grand jury in record-breaking entry year

Marketing

Effie South Africa announces 2025 grand jury in record-breaking entry year

Issued by Association for Communication and Advertising 7 Aug 2025

Source: © 123rf The power of Creative Problem Solving is what Eve Pennington has come to believe in, and what she will spend the rest of her career persuing

Media

In pursuit of the power of Creative Problem Solving

Eve Pennington 7 Aug 2025

Advertising

OpenSky billboard deemed sexist and offensive

Karabo Ledwaba 31 Jul 2025

Marketing

What makes a person cool? Global study has some answers

Todd Pezzuti 29 Jul 2025

Johnnie Walker’s iconic striding man stops walking to encourage men to pause, reflect, and rest during Men’s Mental Health Month (Image supplied)

Advertising

Johnnie Walker’s #Men’sMental Health campaign: Rest. Reset. Keep walking.

29 Jul 2025

ARB and TBWA launch campaign against false advertising

Advertising

ARB and TBWA launch campaign against false advertising

Karabo Ledwaba 28 Jul 2025