Advertising Agencies in South Africa
Easily find the best Advertising Agencies in South Africa – based in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
Blueprint Advertising
We are a 100% black owned, full-service Advertising agency that delivers bespoke solutions to social, economic, business and brand challenges. We are respected for our grasp of the local market – as well as our agility, capability and personalized service.
Johannesburg
Founder and Chairman: Groovin Nchabeleng
MD: Tracey Copley / ECD: Sandile Mkhasibe
Clockwork
An independent award-winning agency with a unique approach, we focus on helping brands tell the right stories, to the right people, at the right time. Driven by metrics and data, we’ll help you develop a unique and resonating brand narrative, no matter the platform.
Johannesburg
Co-CEO: Tom Manners / Nic Simmonds
Creative Business Unit Director: Marc de la Querra / Executive Head of Client Service: Lynne Krawchuk
Interactive Director: Ciaran Burnand
DDB South Africa
Our advertising is part of client’s products and they expect us to be as progressive as they are. We are changing because they are changing. The way to get people to give a damn is to make advertising what they give a damn about.
Johannesburg
CEO: Emmet O’ Hanlon
Executive Creative Director: Conan Green
Draftline JNB
Draftline JNB is 1 of 12 global award-winning in-house agencies for Ab-InBev. As a multiskilled team of creatives, strategists, trend analysts, influencer managers and digital specialists, we drive creative excellence that gets business results across the entire brand portfolio of SAB Ab-InBev on the African continent.
Johannesburg
DUKE
DUKE is an integrated marketing company that puts the best people in the corner of contender brands so they can win the fight for customers’ attention.
Cape Town
Chief Executive Officer: Wayne Naidoo / Executive Creative Director: Mike Beukes
Chief Strategy Officer: Steve Miller / Client Services Director: Kate Wilson
Grey Advertising Africa
Grey is the leading global advertising group, positioned as “Famously Effective” since 1917. We work as a “Networked agency” rather than an agency network tapping into the collective creativity of 10 000 of the brightest thinkers worldwide.
Johannesburg
CEO: Paul Jackson / ECD: Fran Luckin
House of Brave
House of Brave exists to challenge the status quo with strategic and creative intelligence. In doing so we create brave spaces for brands to live in and grow.
Johannesburg
CEO: Karabo Songo / MD: Andrew Shuttleworth
ECD: Vanessa Pearson / Strategy Director: Rob Van Rooyen / Digital Director: Musa Kalenga
Iconic Agency
Iconic is an integrated digital communications agency with a focus on content production and performance.
We make remarkable content for brands and connect them with their audience.
Cape Town
Managing Director & Creative Director: Andrew Kirkby
Executive Producer: Keane Balt / Strategic Lead: Daniel Kolossa
Net#work BBDO
We believed that great ideas have the power to change the world, mobilise behaviour and change and build social cohesion. We still do, and in fact, now we know they can. Great ideas break through the wallpaper of mediocrity and the wall of indifference.
Johannesburg
Group CEO Boniswa Pezisa / Managing Director: Leo Manne
Chief Creative Officer: Mike Schalit / Executive Creative Director: Roanna Williams
Promise
Promise is an independent, owner managed full-service creative agency. A diverse group of thinkers with an appetite for the unexpected. Our work is driven by data rich insights, a deep understanding of our clients business’s and an unrelenting pursuit of memorable creative work that works.
Johannesburg
ECD: Marc Watson / Integrated CDs: Greg King & Nic Kostouros
CEO: James Moffatt / MD: Craig du Preez
Retroviral
Retroviral has made more brands ‘go viral’, globally than any other agency in Africa. Strategy, Content Creation, Dissemination, and Reporting is how we execute our craft while supporting our partners’ business objectives. Virality for us is integrating eyeballs with sales.
Johannesburg
Chief Creative Officer: Mike Sharman
Saatchi & Saatchi South Africa
Saatchi & Saatchi is the “Nothing is Impossible” agency, driven by big thinking, big ideas and a can-do spirit.
Cape Town & Johannesburg
Managing Director: Quinton Luck / Managing Partner: Firdous Osman
Chief Creative Officer: Jonathan Beggs / Head of Strategy: Mia Cronje
Sunshinegun
Sunshinegun is an inspirational company focused on strategic brand design and communication. Based in sunny South Africa and not so sunny London, we deliver illuminating work for our clients, throughout Africa, the Middle East, UK, Canada, USA and Australia.
Johannesburg & London
Managing Director: Katinka Pretorius / Creative Partner: Bronwen Rautenbach
Creative Partner & Music Director: George Rautenbach / Digital Director: Roshni Morar
Wunderman Thompson South Africa
Creatively Driven, Data Inspired. Wunderman SA is a digital marketing partner specialising in advertising, marketing, social media and consulting solutions with offices in Johannesburg, South Africa. WPP Agencies under the Wunderman SA group are: Acceleration, Applogix, Aqua, Base2, and Cerebra.
Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban
