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IDIDTHAT Promotes and Connects South Africa’s Advertising, Marketing and Production Industry.
IDIDTHAT Directory
Quickly find the right people to work with by searching through our curated Directory. We make the process of sourcing South African companies to work with easy, simple and downright sexy. Basically, if you’re not listed on IDIDTHAT.co, you simply don’t exist, like Bruce Willis in that movie with the kid that sees dead people, except nobody will see you…#Shame
IDIDTHAT Featured Stories
Find out who we’re talking about. Read the latest advertising, production, and creative news. We write it so it’s not kak. Let us know if you’d like us to feature your big stories.
Ogilvy brings 19 Loeries home with its clients at the 2024 awards
Ogilvy enjoyed wins on both nights of the Loeries this year, with 19 Loeries in total for clients including Volkswagen SA, KFC, The City of Cape Town, Carling Black Label and Doom. Work was celebrated across a wide number of categories including; Direct, Film, Integrated, Radio, Activations and various industry craft categories.
Friends in High Places
During Loeries Creative Week, Open Chair, in partnership with Nedbank, hosted a speed dating afternoon with a difference. Aptly called, “Friends in High Places,” it was held at The Cape Wheel at the Waterfront. 65 mentees had face time with 31 mentors from across the industry. The pods on the wheel served as an ideal safe space for these women to share their stories and receive guidance.
We tracked down NETO+SHOOKAN, the South African company behind 8 Cannes Lion wins for Coca-Cola and VML
This year, South Africa’s NETO+SHOOKAN, in collaboration with VML SA helped win 8 Cannes Lions for a global Coca-Cola campaign. We spoke with Executive Producer Paresh Shookan and photographer Kgomotso ‘Neto’ Tleane, who crafted the South African contribution.
Usual Suspects Films, a lean, big value Post-Production offering
Operating on a lean model with minimal overheads, Usual Suspects Films offers agencies and clients big value at highly competitive rates. Since its founding in 2017, the post-production house has been delivering top services across commercials, feature films, and doccies, as well as long-form on platforms like Amazon, Netflix, and Showmax. They offer everything from offline and online editing to colour grading, whatever the project needs.
42 South African advertising and PR agency contracts with fossil fuels listed in new Clean Creatives SA F-List report
Clean Creatives is stepping up efforts to hold the SA ad industry accountable for its ties to the fossil fuel industry. Their 2024 SA F-List report has been published and exposes 42 contracts between local agencies and fossil fuel companies like Engen and BP.
IDIDTHAT Monthly Craft Awards
Find out who’s doing the best work in South Africa. Every month we team up with industry leaders to award South Africa’s best in Production Craft. Huge thanks to our recent guest judges who’ve taken the time to judge IDIDTHAT Craft Awards. Look how sexy they are in these black and white pictures we put up – FYI we used the ‘Inkwell’ filter.
IDIDTHAT Craft Awards April 2024
This month’s IDIDTHAT.co Craft Awards were judged by our forever reigning queens Juliet Honey, Creative Director at TBWA Hunt Lascaris and Justine Puren-Calverley, Director at FirstPencil. We bow in awe because wow, this was a particularly tough month with some really strong work! Chicken Licken takes it! Congratulations to the team behind the spot Dave ‘Legs of Thunder’ Mgijimi.
IDIDTHAT Craft Awards March 2024
This month’s IDIDTHAT.co Craft Awards were judged by the honourable Tshepo Tumahole, Integrated CD at Joe Public United and Morgan Dingle, Director at Your Girlfriend. We don’t know what they’ve put in the water over at 7Films but both 7Films directors Hayden Brown and Jozua Malherbe were awarded Best in Craft. Take a bow team!
IDIDTHAT Craft Awards February 2024
This month’s IDIDTHAT.co Craft Awards were judged by industry legends Roanna Williams, CCO & Co-Founder of South Africa’s brand new agency Boundless and Kim Geldenhuys, Director at 0307 Films. Congratulations to Monde who is taking away top honours this month!
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IDIDTHAT Presents ‘SHE DID THAT’ May 2023
SHE DID THAT is a female filmmakers showcase that shines a spotlight on the women in the South African production industry. Although we will only be featuring women and non-binary people, the goal is that it will encourage the inclusion of more underrepresented filmmakers across all production work created by South Africans. This month features Sam Sterling-Court from The Star Film Company, Ying-Poi De Lacy from Massif and Benitha Vlok from Video Cartel.
South Africa’s Clio Awards 2023. All the Work and the Winners
IDIDTHAT is super excited to showcase South Africa's winners and the work that won at this year's Clio Awards! Go team SA! The winners were celebrated at the 63rd annual Clio Awards hosted by Anthony Anderson on April 25th at Gotham Hall in New York City.
IDIDTHAT Presents ‘SHE DID THAT’ March 2023
SHE DID THAT is a female filmmakers showcase that shines a spotlight on the women in the South African production industry. Although we will only be featuring women and non-binary people, the goal is that it will encourage the inclusion of more underrepresented filmmakers across all production work created by South Africans. This month features Chloe Coetsee from Darling Films, Jabu Nadia Newman from Romance Films and Renee van Reenen from Platypus.