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

South Africa, Nov. 26 -- The Effie Awards reward effectiveness and impact in advertising, and TBWAHunt Lascaris' SOS campaign embodies this, bringing together strategy, creativity and measurement into... Read More


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

South Africa, Nov. 26 -- The campaign itself was a break in the traditional advertising of Sanlam, which is viewed as a legacy company. It is also a campaign that broke out of the category's traditio... Read More


Voice of the community: Caxton Media network visibly supports G20 Women's Shutdown

South Africa, Nov. 26 -- As the longstanding, national leader of community media, the Caxton Group understands the forces affecting South African households and shaping their narratives. It also under... Read More


Ogilvy named Digital Agency Of The Year at the 2025 Smarties

South Africa, Nov. 26 -- Digital first thinking has shaped the next era of modern marketing, with clients increasingly committing a greater percentage of their marketing budgets to social, influencer ... Read More


Rhodes University appoints youngest head of journalism

South Africa, Nov. 26 -- This appointment marks a milestone as Dr Mgogo becomes both the youngest person and the first Black academic to lead JMS. Dr Mgogo has been a senior lecturer at both the Schoo... Read More


AI allows filmmakers to push creative limits

South Africa, Nov. 26 -- AI isn't the future. It's the present No longer some futuristic concept, AI is embedded in production pipelines across the industry and the world. In fact, 92% of visual effe... Read More


Why culture drives brand relevance - dentsu's X-Rated Conversation

South Africa, Nov. 26 -- Hosted by Marcel Swain, managing director of dentsu X, the episode brings together multi-award-winning artist, entrepreneur and cultural tastemaker Sizwe (Reason HD) to unpack... Read More


Canva launches local operations in South Africa

South Africa, Nov. 26 -- The visual communication platform, which reports over $3.5bn in annual revenue and 260 million monthly users globally, says more than 77 million designs were created by South ... Read More


A backlash against AI imagery in ads may have begun as brands promote 'human-made'

South Africa, Nov. 26 -- But in these advertising campaigns on TV, billboards on New York streets and on social media, the companies are signalling something larger. Even Apple's new series release, P... Read More


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

South Africa, Nov. 26 -- . The agency last won the overall AdFocus Awards title in 2018 when Ogilvy Johannesburg took the title. The period under review for the AdFocus Award 2025, from July 2024 to... Read More