ARTICLES RELATING TO
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Jessie J may have worked as the house artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, but at the upcoming MOBO Awards she is the lead nominee.
Beyoncé's pregnancy announcement on the red carpet at the MTV Video Music Awards has all but overshadowed the ceremony.
As it did last year, Ogilvy Group is making the running at the finalist stage of the Loerie Awards. But this time it’s Ogilvy Cape Town that’s turned in the more spectacular performance to top the first stage of the standings lists, which were released last week.
Net#work BBDO has surged into the lead as the field spreads out behind it after the D&AD and Cannes Lions awards. With the four contending international awards events now over, and the field past the halfway mark, there are probably only four candidates with a realistic chance of winning the race for creative leadership this year.
An outstanding performance at the Cannes Lions Festival last week by Net#work BBDO shot it back to the top of the creative pile after a period during which its trophy cabinet has looked rather bare.
Attending an event like Cannes gives South Africans the ability to see into the future. What’s happening and on display here and now at Cannes will be happening in SA next year.
After seven years of drought have the rains returned to South African television advertising? Though predicting success at the Cannes Lions is a dangerous game, the local industry has more commercials with realistic hopes of winning something at the world’s top advertising competition than we’ve had for several years.
Taylor Swift's fans gave her another trophy, and Sheryl Crow's underwear made an unexpected star turn at the CMT Music Awards.
Stings
This year’s ad agency creative race has hotted up, with five in contention for the lead after the announcement of the 2011 Clio Awards. Ogilvy Johannesburg, despite picking up no points at the Clios, is still clinging to the lead.
A SAMA attendee laments the poor organisation of the South African Music Awards from the inside.
Terrence Malick's controversial drama The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt as a domineering father, has won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palm d'Or.
Liquideep, Professor, Die Antwoord and Locnville were big winners at the 17th South African Music Awards.
The SAMA nominees for Record of the Year have been reduced to the final five.
Finweek magazine's Marc Hasenfuss has been named overall winner of the Citadel Words on Money journalism award for the second time since 2003.
