Chris Rawlinson

Another day, another ad from us at Ogilvy Cape Town. This time the client was The Prison Broadcasting Network (PBN), basically they are a non-profit rehabilitation programme that teaches prisoners the skills to become employable when they are released. Over 80% of their trainees never go back to a life of crime. We conducted a [...]

It has now been pretty much one year to the day since I joined Ogilvy. My first corporate job has been an exciting journey so far. Apart from getting over the initial ego challenges that come from joining a large agency, I have been incredibly happy. My focus has been on digital education, group marketing, [...]

Recently the new VW Jetta launched in South Africa, above our new Ogilvy Cape Town commercial for its release. Enjoy.

To show just how vast a job the NSRI in South Africa have to deal with, Ogilvy Cape Town created this poster of the land and sea, with coloured text denoting the different areas on a map that are looked after by other authorities (i.e Police, Forestry commission etc.). The ad then listed a short [...]

One of the things I help do at Ogilvy is to bring in external great inspirational guys and girls to help educate our staff more on the digital marketing world. The above clip is from the ever helpful Justin Hartman, co-founder of Social Code, who kindly popped by to give us a talk on the [...]

Great work from Ogilvy Cape Town’s Jen and Cuan for the VW polo GTi Date drive campaign. The below infographic shows the final percentage improvements you can get when you go on a date in a Polo GTi. On average the total came to an extra 27.8% more attractive when in a Polo GTi ! [...]

Today would have been David Ogilvy’s 100th birthday. To help celebrate this momentous occasion we decided to make a site called www.inspiremedavid.com. As David is still quoted regularly we took 100 of his quotes and randomised them on the site. Once you find a quote you like you can share it on Twitter or Facebook. [...]

Fun work for VW, this time for the new Golf R. They created prosthetic mouth pieces that mimicked the effects of g-force and then hired promoters to walk around town with branded T-Shirts saying “Golf R, 188KW of refined fury”. Simple, effective, funny. Via: Ogilvy Cape Town