Inspiration from Cannes 2013

Below is a deck we put together at Ogilvy Cape Town sharing some of the great work and trends from the 2013 Cannes Lions. The presentation was put together by Chris Gotz and Myself. Hope you enjoy it. Cannespiration (Inspiration… Continue Reading

Coca-Cola: Grandpa

The below ad was put together for Coke by advertising agency David, Buenos Aires, and shows the difference in lifestyles from the 50’s/60’s compared to nowadays (Slow pace / Healthier, to fast paced / unhealthy). For a company that makes… Continue Reading

Polish Academy of Science: Polish Diacritics Campaign

Great campaign from Ogilvy&Mather, Warsaw for the Polish Academy of Science. Like most languages nowadays technology and the abbreviations that go with it are bastardising the Polish language. In Polish though this seems to be a particularly bad problem as… Continue Reading

C.S Hammam-Lif: Mobilizing The 12th Man

Great mobile work by Memac Ogilvy Tunis for Tunisian football team C.S Hammam-Lif who needed support for their last crucial game of the season. For security reasons, the Tunisian Government decided that all Professional Football League games would be played… Continue Reading

WWF: Things to do in the dark (Earth Hour)

One of our clients at Ogilvy Cape Town is WWF, each year they run an initiative called Earth Hour to encouraging people to switch off their lights to save energy. With Earth Hour now in its fourth year, the novelty… Continue Reading

IBM: Wimbledon Insights

IBM and Ogilvy London always create brilliant projects for the Wimbledon tennis tournament and this year is no exception. They created Wimbledon Insights, a site that shares real time match stats and trends, in an easy to understand way. They… Continue Reading

Final SA 2013 Cannes Lions Winners

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

Mannes in Cannes: F-bombs and Redemption

  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

Sport Club Recife: Immortal Fans

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

Learn, Unlearn, Relearn

Learn, Unlearn, Relearn from Chris Rawlinson Above is a talk I made for the recent Integrated Marketing Conference in Cape Town, entitled Learn, Unlearn, Relearn. The talk takes you through a brief history of advertising, showing what has changed, what… Continue Reading