Today I will be helping to launch Social@Ogilvy for Ogilvy South Africa. The above clip shows some local stats, case studies, and a rough overview of what the division does. The launch starts at 10am South African time, and will… Continue Reading
It’s always nice to be able to feature work that I helped on at Ogilvy, especially when its for a good cause. Last year through an introduction from one of our other clients, Volkswagen, we started to help the Wilderness… Continue Reading
Fantastic idea by Advertising Agency Germinal Cominicacion, Spain, for Doctors Without Borders. They created a placebo mint pill product and that was branded and sold in pharmacies around Spain, in order to help raise money for medicine needed by people… Continue Reading
Local South African tech firm iLogic recently helped advertise the new BMW 1 Series. They developed an Interactive video projection car game controlled via iPads that was projected onto major billboards in high foot traffic areas. People were challenged to… Continue Reading
To help promote the gardening section of German hardware store Toom baumarkt, Ogilvy Action, Germany, organised a gnome protest against poorly maintained gardens. The team placed an army of gnomes with plaques in city centres asking people to take better… Continue Reading
Wonderful work by South African agency Metropolitan Republic for Wimpy. To publicise their new brail menus being available at all stores, they dropped off burgers at the main blind organisations. The burgers all came with sesame seeds meticulously placed them… Continue Reading
2011 has been my first year of being officially with Ogilvy South Africa. It’s been incredible to watch the blood, sweat, and tears that go into making something that we see, and for the most part ignore, every day hundreds… Continue Reading
Ad agency Boondoggle, Belgium created the above winter wake up app so their staff could get to work on time when the weather takes a turn for the worse. "The Winter Wake Up" app works like an ordinary alarm clock,… Continue Reading
Interactive billboards are generally well received and the above from Navarro Correas wines and ad agencies Leo Burnett Colombiana / Alpha245, Bogota, Colombia is no exception. They recreated Van Gogh’s self portrait using 1000 acrylic cells and an automated robotic… Continue Reading
Earlier in the year Ogilvy Tunisia came up with a rather powerful Go Vote activation for Tunisia’s first free elections. On January 14th 2011, former Dictator President Ben Ali was chased out of Tunisia. Since then much of the population… Continue Reading