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Sponsoring: Achievements and Special Honours Section |
| FNB is the oldest bank in South Africa, and can be traced back to the Eastern Province Bank formed in Grahamstown in 1838. Today, FNB trades as a division of FirstRand Bank Limited.
When looking at FNB’s history, two things in particular stand out. The first is a story of survival – different circumstances in South Africa have posed many great challenges in our history, all of which FNB has successfully met. This track record provides a strong foundation for our future challenges. The second is a story of people – our history has always been firmly influenced by the needs of the people we serve. The Acacia tree in our brand logo is a suitable representation of our history. Our roots run deep in South Africa, and we have grown thanks to our commitment to serving the needs of our clients and communities. Contact |
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Sponsoring: Integrated digital marketing & campaigns |
| With News24.com at its centre, 24.com is a network of popular digital publishing brands and online services across internet, mobile and interactive TV that services almost 40% of South Africa’s online population. Together with Kalahari.net – one of the country’s top online retailers – 24.com is the leader in the South African digital universe.
Dedicated to creating and sustaining uniquely South African online and mobile communities, 24.com includes various services for user-generated content, such as MyNews24 and Letterdash (the 24.com blogging platform), aswell as networking tools including Blueworld and Speakerbox BandSpace. The network’s advertising space is managed by THE SPACESTATION, a single point of contact offering advertisers and media planners creative and innovative advertising solutions to engage with online and mobile South Africans across multiple digital destinations. Contact |
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Sponsoring: Best publisher |
| 365 Digital and Primedia Online offer a complete online agency, advertiser and publisher solution to all online ad campaign management requirements be it ad serving, ad sales, email marketing, trafficking and campaign management. We offer a fully flexible service based on each client’s specific needs.
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Sponsoring: Corporate/Retail – large enterprise (websites & microsites) & Media plan – (advertising and search) |
| Ads24 is the leading seller and marketer of South African newspapers to national advertisers and media agencies. As the national sales and trade marketing division for Media24 Newspapers and their digital properties, Ads24 have direct access to the latest trends from around the world. Ads24 is the best option for integrated, innovative solutions.
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Sponsoring: Social Media campaign |
| BrandsEye, a South African-based Online Reputation Management Service, operates in 89 countries.
By tracking all online conversations about a brand, event, campaign or individual; BrandsEye is used to identify real-time strategic risks and opportunities. The process is fully automated to minimise the need for on-going time investment; and combined with the full Reputation Consulting offering, offers brands real insight into how they are perceived, which opportunities to embrace, and how to manage crisis situations. Contact |
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Sponsoring: Paid search & Organic search |
| Clicks2customers is the dominant paid search specialist in South Africa. Founded in 2003 by Vinny Lingham (2006 Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa), with the likes of Mark Shuttleworth and the Oppenheimer family as shareholders, its revenues exceed R100 million a year.
The team of 43, using proprietary technology, has an excellent performance-based track record, strong pricing algorithms and a blue-chip client list. Clicks2customers specialises in keyword-level bidding on long-tail campaigns (up to 1 million + SKUs, 5 000 000+ keywords). The head office and operations are based in Cape Town; with business development offices in San Diego, London and Sydney Contact |
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Sponsoring: Best agency | Best media planner |
| Dash Of Lime is a streamlined digital ad sales and operations platform that provides centralised access to all aspects of Primedia Online’s digital advertising sections: Primedia Online Sales, iAfrica.com and 365 Digital.
The site also enables prospective advertisers to assess what options are available using the interactive Rate Card section, and is an invaluable source for the latest news and innovations impacting the digital environment. Contact |
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Sponsoring: Specialist publisher |
| DStv Online is obsessive about continuously exploring new, innovative ways to enhance users’ viewing experiences across all platforms, and a pioneer in making entertainment, shows, series and services available under one digital ‘roof’. It provides a range of services via popular websites and mobile devices such as DStv.com, SuperSport.com, Omusic.com |
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Sponsoring: Best individual contribution |
| Effective Measure is an innovative Digital Audience Measurement and Research company.
As a pioneer of a groundbreaking Market Intelligence solution, Effective Measure leads the industry with a realistic representation of the digital marketplace through its Digital Helix methodology. It provides best practice products and services to clients across the globe – including South East Asia, Middle East North Africa and South Africa. Contact |
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Sponsoring: Best publishing house |
| IOL represents the very best of journalism in the Independent News & Media stable, from The Star to Sunday Independent. The website is simple, user-friendly and interactive – supported by a number of newsrooms and publications in the three major SA regions which keep it dynamic and responsive to breaking news. Readers engage with the content and are outspoken about their beliefs.
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Sponsoring: Editorial and Best editorial team |
| M&C Saatchi was established in 1995, and is the only agency that was international from thestart.
There are currently 21 offices in 15 countries – the Cape Town office is a year and a half old, and the Johannesburg operation is a recent addition. The agency has a single-minded focus: to employ world-class talent that grows clients’ market shares measurably with brilliant and imaginative work, irrespective of channel. ‘Brutal simplicity of thought’ governs everything they do: from creative thinking to creative work; from structure to systems. They offer integrated advertising services, including channel strategy, digital, design, content, mobile, CRM/eCRM, data & metrics, direct marketing and loyalty, activation, retail, eventing and PR.Their collective experience spans most industry sectors. Contact |
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Sponsoring: Games |
| MyBroadband is the largest IT website in South Africa. As the dominant player in this market MyBroadband attracts over 80% of all traffic to IT websites. Furthermore, MyBroadband is the only IT website to form part of the top 10 largest websites in the country. MyBroadband sees 950,000 unique readers a month who are largely attracted by the quality content and breaking industry news.
MyBroadband also has the largest social networking platform for IT professionals in SA with over 4,8 million posts and 85,000 registered members. As the largest forum in South Africa, MyBroadband sees a variety of IT professionals and has become a hub of activity for IT and telecommunications discussions. Contact |
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Sponsoring: Applications & tools category |
| By delivering compelling and affordable mobile experiences, especially in emerging markets like Africa, Nokia plays a critical role in making the benefits of the information age available to as many people as possible.
In growth economies, its evolving mobile phones and services strategy will be the catalyst for driving the next billion to access the web – with web apps and proxy browsing; while delivering localised, personal, financial and location-based services on mobile phones. |
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Sponsoring: Tech. innovation |
| PREZENCE is one of South Africa’s leading new media agencies and combines extensive in-house development expertise and experience with innovation, highly functional beautiful design and fresh strategic thinking, all with a keen eye to delivering a fresh, exciting and enhanced end-user experience.
Key to PREZENCE’s success is its commitment to, and belief in, forging strong and long-term strategic partnerships and relationships with its clients by working hand in hand with their teams and brands. Through a detailed understanding, analysis, planning and execution of our clients’ brand digital strategies and requirements, PREZENCE creates memorable, immersive and enticing experiences for the target audience making those strategies and deliverables a reality. This is achieved through a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of mobile and online markets and delivered via technological innovations and with a focus on consumer engagement, profiling and communication tools. PREZENCE provides the complete end to end digital solution. |
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Sponsoring: Mobile site – corporate/retail & Music / sound design |
| Vodacom Group Limited (Vodacom) is an African mobile communications company providing voice, messaging, data and converged services to around 40 million customers. From its roots in South Africa, Vodacom has grown its operations to include networks in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, and Lesotho. `it provides carrier and business services to customers in over 40 African countries. | |
