The final day of the 60th Cannes Lions saw South African agencies finish the week in style with wins in both the Film, and Branded Content categories. TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris continued their winning streak by getting a bronze in film, while Ogilvy… Continue Reading
Words by Monsieur Chris Gotz It has not been a good week on earth for South Africa. Our cricketers played with all the resolve of wet biltong. Our Baby Boks, despite having a fullback who rivals the roadrunner for… Continue Reading
Last night was the cyber lions at Cannes. Above is this years Grand Prix winner from Intel and Toshiba. Together they created a 45min love story called The Beauty Inside. It played out over 7 YouTube videos, with gaps for… Continue Reading
Last night was the amongst other things the Cannes Lions Mobile awards night. Above is the brilliant Grand Prix Mobile winning case study from DDB for Smart. Smart, the Philippines’ largest telecom, took sim cards and turned them into a… Continue Reading
It’s Cannes week, so there are bound to be lots of wonderful bits of work from all over the world popping up. The first one that won big, winning a Grand Prix for Promo & Activation work, was Ogilvy &… Continue Reading
Another nice piece of work from Ogilvy, this time OgilvyAction, Kuala Lumpur. In a world filled with social media where written words often have little real meaning, Cadbury Dairy Milk gave people the chance to write something sincere for once.… Continue Reading
Urbanears created an interactive analogue sound poster for their new Urban Ears product Slussen, a mobile DJ mixing system app for iPhone. Agency Uncle Grey created illustrations engraved with ridges, that produce sound as they are scratched with your fingernail.… Continue Reading
Like the official game, ‘Scrabble Wifi’ is a playful way to get free wifi connection by spelling words. People’s words served as WIFI passwords, and their scores into free minutes of connection. Based on scrabble rules, the higher the score,… Continue Reading
For years, Coke has encouraged people to share happiness—and has given them lots of surprising ways to share a Coke. This time Ogilvy France and Ogilvy Asia-Pacific teamed up to make a can that splits in half for Coca-Cola. They… Continue Reading
Recently at Ogilvy Cape Town we created the above tactical YouTube pre-roll ad for the Audi R8, which can do 0 – 100km/h in 3.5seconds. Most people only watch the mandatory 5 seconds of a YouTube ad before skipping it.… Continue Reading