VW Golf 6: Park Assist gives parking attendants a day off

To help publicise the VW Golf 6’s new Park Assist technology Ogilvy paid local Cape Town parking attendants (more commonly referred to as Car Guards locally ) to take the day off and relax around town. All they had to… Continue Reading →

Sony Ericsson: Ride you like a pony ads

  To help publicise the release of the new Smile Shutter technology being released in Sony Ericsson’s new C903 and W995 phones they have created a few 30 sec funny radio spots. Just click on the links below to have… Continue Reading →

Steri Stumpie campaign #WIN

   Its not often I get to write about great local below the line case studies, but luckily King James have been doing a grand job with South Africa’s own favourite milkshake brand; Steri Stumpie. To start with they managed… Continue Reading →

Tiger Woods PGA Tour Banner ad

      Great banner ads are a rare breed, so its a pleasure to be able to share this beauty with you recently done for the release of the new EA sports game; Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10. To… Continue Reading →

Sony Ericsson adds more colour to logos

According to Dave Hilton, UK marketing director at Sony Ericsson there is “clearly a desire to freshen up our advertising”. One of the ideas is to add several more colour options to its logo, which traditionally has been a silver… Continue Reading →

Sprint: New Now Network Campaign

Above are all the the new Sprint mobile adverts. Great job from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. I love the random use of crazy (if slightly improvable) facts. I’m not American, but I know from all their fun ads that the… Continue Reading →

Renegade: Shoegasm

For those readers of a female persuasion you might enjoy this little moc ad for Zappos shoes from innovative New York Agency Renegade. Check out Renegades website, they have done some great work and have a nice little digital marketing… Continue Reading →

Purity Organic: Those Motherf@#!ers (How to swear in ads)

Has been a while since I have seen a long bleeped out swearing ad (who can forget that classic Bud light swear jar ad). This new one is from the great chaps at McCann Erickson, New York and is for… Continue Reading →

Audi Centre Cape Town MVP day

Last Friday I had the pleasure of helping to organise the first of what I hope will become many Audi Centre Cape Town MVP days. The basic idea was to see if we could use some fun non-traditional media methods… Continue Reading →

Virgin Media: Backlot

Great work by RKCR/Y&R London for Virgin media (they are the same peeps behind the sexy 25th anniversary Virgin Atlantic spot). The soundtrack for the virgin Media ad is a song called Beasts by Slow Moving Millie. Thanks to Sarah… Continue Reading →