

Accenture Song Cape Town
Accenture Song is a South African creative ideas agency making global moves.
Cape Town
Accenture Song Leadership: James Barty
MD Accenture & CCO Accenture Song (Africa): Alistair King
ECD: Cameron Watson
We put idea explosion ahead of idea integration. Everything starts with a bold idea, and where that idea comes from in the group is irrelevant. In our experience, the best ideas have a flammable quality. Everyone that encounters it wants to add to it, with interest, and in doing so the idea is exploded through the group into whichever mediums make it more powerful. This collaborative structure has a significant effect. There are no parameters to how we think. No limitation to our solutions. There’s no idea that can’t be had, can’t be acted upon or made better by someone else in the building. We take the most compelling qualities of a brand and make them spectacularly memorable for a world that doesn’t think in media silos.
KingJames Group
Roodebloem Manor,
22 Lawley Road, Woodstock, 7925,
Cape Town, South Africa
Chief Executive Officer: James Barty
gwen@kingjames.co.za
Chief Creative Officer: Alistair King
gwen@kingjames.co.za
Human Resources:
careers@kingjames.co.za
FEATURED WORK
AWARDED WORK
FEATURED
Jury Duty, changing how South Africa shows up in Cannes
Last week, South Africa’s Cannes Lions jurors made a little history. For the first time, current jurors came together with former jurors and Jury Presidents for Jury Duty, a new IDIDTHAT.co and Nedbank initiative designed to share knowledge and hard-earned lessons before they step into the world’s most influential judging rooms.
WISH I IDID THAT
We all know that feeling. A piece of work drops and your stomach sinks a little because… damn, you wish you’d did that. The idea, the craft, whatever it is, it gets under your skin in the best possible way. So instead of pretending creatives don’t get wildly jealous of good work, we decided to celebrate it. We asked some of South Africa’s top talent to look at the work released between September and December 2025 and pick the pieces they genuinely wish they’d done themselves.
South Africa’s D&AD Work & Winners 2026
South Africa picked up a handful of shortlist recognitions at this year’s D&AD Awards, with a Wood Pencil awarded to Accenture Song for Allan Gray’s ‘A Seat at The Table’. Love this work, go team! And while it wasn’t the country’s biggest year at D&AD, getting shortlisted here still means the work stood out among some of the best creative entries in the world.
IDIDTHAT reveals South Africa’s Cannes Lions Predictions 2026
Last night, at a packed Cannes Predictions Dinner hosted by IDIDTHAT in Johannesburg, South Africa’s 2026 Cannes Contenders were revealed live to the industry. And now you can view that work right here.




