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SABRE Awards, Gold, EMEA, 2020
Jet, a fashion retailer, increased awareness and reduced the stigma surrounding breast cancer in South Africa by creating bare breast tutorials with influencers and sending personalised media drops to key media personalities.
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SABRE Awards, Platinum Finalist, Africa, 2020
Shield, a deodorant brand, launched PR events that discussed the state of football development in South Africa to increase relevance for the brand and its soccer sponsorship.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
Philips, an electronics company, created awareness around a large killer in South Africa, cardiovascular disease, by creating a campaign that got the public to get their hearts racing and back in rhythm through cycling challenges.
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SABRE Awards, Platinum Finalist, Africa, 2020
Jet, a fashion retailer, promoted Breast Cancer Awareness Month in South Africa by launching bare breast tutorials featuring influencers doing self-checks on camera.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
Glencore, a trading and mining company, launched #SheRocks in South Africa which put GoPros on the hard hats of its female workers to show how women can do the jobs that are stereotyped as male.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
Vodacom, a mobile operator, launched a Mum & Baby service in South Africa to encourage mobile engagement by equipping mothers with advice on caring for their children.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
MenaCal.7, a calcium supplement brand, launched the Woman to the Bone campaign which creatively positioned the brand with a heart by celebrating women as the backbone of South Africa.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
Bolt, a ride-hailing brand, partnered with Harambee, an organisation focused on solving youth unemployment, to create a campaign that pushed rider and driver sign-ups by supporting youth unemployment in South Africa.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
Nupen Staude de Vries Inc (NSdV), a law firm, attracted corporate business in South Africa by developing a company brochure and newsletter celebrating its success.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
Cartoon Network, a cable channel, launched a new season of the most popular soccer animation series in South Africa and partnered with Supersport United Soccer Schools to promote soccer among children.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
Audi, an automotive brand, created a virtual reality-enabled Customer Private Lounge to demonstrate its first class design and drive sales in Nigeria.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
Audi, a car brand, increased car sales in South Africa by launching a video campaign that featured key influencers that aligned with the campaign tagline of living in the now.
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SABRE Awards, Platinum Finalist, Africa, 2020
Biogen, a biotechnology company, documented the journey of a regular person using Biogen products to promote itself as the number one health brand in South Africa.
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SABRE Awards, Africa, 2020
KFC, a restaurant chain, created a social campaign that asked the South African public to find a couple that had a proposal in one of its restaurants to increase brand love and awareness.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
Dove, a skincare brand, launched a bespoke 100-colour fabric to celebrate the colourful continent of Africa and promote its Dove Invisible Dry deodorant.
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SABRE Awards, Gold, Africa, 2020
Dulux, a paint brand, promoted its Colour of the Year at key moments throughout the year by implementing a quarterly palette launch to bring purpose to its paint with consumers in South Africa.
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Alice Miller, WARC Awards, Entrant, Effective Social Strategy, 2020
Multinational information technology company Hewkett-Packard ran an outreach and awareness campaign in Europe and South Africa.
News
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10/03/2020
South African retailer Woolworths used a chatbot on Facebook to create a persona-driven alternative to traditional food diary-based research, revealing deeper insights by boosting engagement and data quality.
Rankings
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WARC Media 100, 2020
Otees, a cereal brand, launched a mobile game to help South African consumers decide which new flavour cereal should become a permanent product.
Rankings
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WARC Media 100, 2020
For its third year supporting the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence international campaign, LegalWise, a legal insurance services brand, launched an in-feed video-ads-based campaign to increase awareness for the issue across South Africa.
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Sam Peña-Taylor, Event Reports, IIeX Europe, February 2020
Woolworths, the South African retailer, used a bot to conduct qual research on its customers’ food habits and motivations revealing insights that have adapted its comms and NPD.
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04/03/2020
Consumers in South Africa, hit by rising living costs and growing job insecurity, are showing marked changes in their spending patterns, a new study shows.
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WARC Creative 100, 2020
Joburg Ballet, a professional ballet company, increased ticket sales in South Africa by transforming consumer trends into new ballet performances.
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Nicholas De Canha, Michael Ewing, and Ali Tamaddoni, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 60, No. 1, 2020, pp. 87-103
The advertising-sales relationship remains paramount. This study, believed to be the largest that focuses on automotive sales and advertising, investigates ceilings and thresholds by optimizing budget allocations among media.
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MRS Awards, Winner, MRS Award for Healthcare Research, 2019
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, an American private foundation, helped cast a fresh light on young men in South Africa, demonstrating they are complex, vulnerable individuals in harsh circumstances.
