Blog Posts

4th May 2017

Brand activations : the X factor

Event management, an important discipline within the overall brand-activation mix, is all about creating the kind of buzz that genuinely piques people’s interest. In the lead-up to this year’s Cape Town Carnival, for instance, three buzz-creating mini-events were held to raise interest in the carnival and keep it firmly in the public focus.
12th April 2017

Brand activation through event marketing

It’s said that in any marketing/PR campaign, content is king. This, of course, means quality content. So forget the hard sell and/or dry press releases. Today’s audiences are looking for content that they can really engage with. In this first of a two-part series, we talk to Ross Hillier, photographer and filmmaker, about what makes quality film content.
28th February 2017

Storytelling, shareability and other key ingredients for successful digital communication.

Estée de Villiers has her finger firmly on the social-media and digital-marketing pulse. She tells us who’s getting it right and why, and reveals a few surprising trends, including a move away from Facebook, partly because people are finally beginning to value their privacy.
7th February 2017

Coming soon to a device near you… digital marketing trends to watch out for this year

Social media is no longer just for keeping in touch, boasting about what you had for breakfast and posting artfully filtered pics of your hols. It’s now a bona-fide mainstream marketing tool. Our digital marketing expert Michael Richards tells us what’s coming down the wire in 2017.