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Win the room before you even walk in the door: Credentials and the sizzle reel

Direct Marketing

Win the room before you even walk in the door: Credentials and the sizzle reel

Issued by DMASA 24 Jun 2025

Source: © 123rf The most recent IAS Media Auditing Masterclass explored the often-overlooked parts of agency spend where bloated Scope of Work (SOW) estimates and unchecked costs run rife

Media

IAS Media Auditing Masterclass: If you’re not auditing, you’re bleeding

10 Jun 2025

Source: © 123rf Johanna McDowell, CEO of the Independent Agency Search & Selection Company, looks at the secret weapon to winning pitches

Advertising

What's your secret weapon in winning pitches?

29 May 2025

Your credentials are your greatest pitch – IAS backs first 10 agency submissions for 2025

Direct Marketing

Your credentials are your greatest pitch – IAS backs first 10 agency submissions for 2025

Issued by DMASA 8 May 2025

Volkswagen Group Africa continues their creative partnership with Ogilvy

Advertising

Volkswagen Group Africa continues their creative partnership with Ogilvy

Issued by Ogilvy South Africa 6 May 2025

Source: © 123rf The 2025 first half AdForum Summit will take place in New York between 12 and 16 May 2025 with one of the key meetings with the leadership of Omnicom Advertising Group

Marketing & Media

AdForum Summit includes key meeting with Omnicom Advertising Group leadership

6 May 2025

Source: © 123rf The IAS Media Assurance Masterclass series, in partnership with Media Marketing Compliance (MMC), continues its four-part masterclass series with a deep dive into programmatic media, exposing inefficiencies and shedding light on the challenges and solutions facing advertisers today

Marketing & Media

IAS Media Assurance Masterclass Series spotlights Programmatic Media

24 Apr 2025

Source: © 123rf Agency Scope South Africa 2025/26 is set to launch in May 2025, and has been expanded to include AI, influencer marketing and retail media as well as a wider industry scope

Marketing & Media

Agency Scope South Africa 2025/26 to launch in May, with expanded categories and reach

4 Apr 2025

Source: © 123rf Scopen's research shows that the latest global trends signal a growing reliance on AI, a strong push toward integrated agency solutions and a strategic re-evaluation of in-house marketing structures

Marketing & Media

EXCLUSIVE: Scopen research - Be integrated, AI-powered and strategic, or be left behind

20 Mar 2025

Scopen has unveiled key trends from its first media agencies’ New Business Report in South Africa, which shows that South African media agencies participated in an average of 45 pitches last year (Image supplied)

Media

South African media agencies compete for new business in 45 pitches annually

14 Mar 2025

Source: © 123rf Scopen unveils key trends from its first creative agencies’ New Business Report in South Africa, which shows that South African creative agencies participated in an average of 47 pitches last year

Marketing & Media

Exclusive: South African creative agencies compete for new business in 47 pitches a year

11 Mar 2025

Source: © 123rf The IAS Media Marketing Compliance Masterclass series, in partnership with Media Marketing Compliance (MMC), addressed one of the industry’s biggest concerns—non-disclosed media models

Marketing & Media

IAS Media Marketing Compliance Masterclass Series: Tackling non-disclosed media models head-on

11 Mar 2025

Source: © 123rf The IAS Media Auditing Masterclass Series, in partnership with Media Marketing Compliance (MMC), is a no-charge, short but highly informative four-part webinar series designed exclusively for marketers.

Education

Master media transparency: The IAS Media Auditing Masterclass Series

4 Feb 2025

Source: © 123rf Scopen South Africa has launched its New Business Report, a no-charge resource designed to enhance industry knowledge around new business activity in the advertising and communications sectors

Marketing

Scopen South Africa unveils creative and media agencies new business report

30 Jan 2025

Source: © 123rf Panoramic view of Santiago de Chile with the Andes mountain range in the back. Scopen's latest report analyses the new business practices of creative companies and advertisers' practices in Chile

Marketing

Scopen research finds Chilean creative companies invest an average of R500,000 per year in New Business

28 Jan 2025

Source: © 123rf The sixth wave of the Agency Scope study in South Africa will begin in May 2025

Research

Agency Scope 2025 to include more marketing and agency professionals

14 Nov 2024

Source: © 123rf Scopen research shows how media fragmentation means creative agencies and media partners need to have closer connections.

Marketing & Media

Scopen: Marketers seek close collaboration between creative and media agencies

10 Jul 2024

Source: © 123rf Social Media continues to claim a large share of digital spend in SA according to Scopen's Agency Scope SA

Marketing & Media

Digital spend, digital return – and digital snake oil salesmen

4 Jun 2024

Johanna McDowell

Marketing

SA represented at 2024 AdForum Summit in New York City

8 May 2024

Source: © 123rf As marketing agencies continue to seek ways to deliver the goods, we are seeing ‘old agency’ bumping up against ‘slick martech’, writes Johanna McDowell, CEO of the Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) and Scopen partner

Branding

Creating a “magic middle”, not a “them and us” of brand vs performance

Johanna McDowell 29 Apr 2024

Source: © Melpomen 123rf Ogilvy, Joe Public and TBWA as well as Carat, OMD and TheMediaShop are all standouts in the Agency Scope as rated by marketers

Marketing & Media

Agency Scope: Top creative and media agencies according to marketers

27 Feb 2024

Source: © Anne Spratt Agecny Scope 2023 has found that the trend of in-house marketing operations is starting to wan, as marketers start to respond to the post-Covid world

Marketing & Media

Scopen 2023 trend: In-house agency heading for the out house?

21 Feb 2024

Image supplied. Agency Scope’s Top 10 most admired media agency professions is headed up by Wavemaker's Merissa Himraj and half of the top 10, are women

Media

Wavemaker's Merissa Himraj tops Agency Scope's Top 10 media professionals rankings

16 Feb 2024

Image supplied. The Agency Scope 2023 – 2024’s Top 10 top creative agency professionals have been revealed

Marketing

Joe Public United's Pepe Marais and Xolisa Dyeshana lead Agency Scope's top creative professionals

14 Feb 2024

Source: © Shopright Holdings The perception some clients have of agency environments is often ‘creativity coupled with chaos, overseen by someone called traffic’, writes Johanna McDowell, CEO of the Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) and Scopen partner

Marketing

Unlocking agency methodologies: Why understanding operations is crucial for clients

Johanna McDowell 14 Feb 2024

Source: © The Good Things Guy Art Installation by Kilmany-Jo Liversage at Nando’s Maponya Mall in Soweto, Johannesburg

Marketing

Agency Scope 2023-2024: Industry respect for Nando's marketing three times that of nearest rivals

29 Jan 2024

Stellar debut for RAPT Creative in Scopen’s 2023 Agency Scope

Marketing

Stellar debut for RAPT Creative in Scopen’s 2023 Agency Scope

Issued by RAPT Creative Agency 16 Jan 2024

Image supplied. Ogilvy SA was awarded two of the newly introduced trophies as Agency Scope's leading creative agency in overall market perception & overall competitor´s opinion in South Africa

Marketing

Ogilvy SA, Carat SA and Promise Agency the first Agency Scope trophy recipients

30 Nov 2023

Image supplied. For the first time in South Africa, Agency Scope will replace certificates with trophies for the winners in six of its categories

Marketing

Agency Scope introduces trophies for SA winners

14 Nov 2023

Source: © 123rf Marketers and agencies want to avoid a relationship that does not work following a pitch process

Marketing

Post pitch relationships: Keep the glow when the real work hits hard

Johanna McDowell 13 Nov 2023

Source: © Chris Schippers From 5 to 9 November 2023, the bustling city of London will play host to the AdForum Worldwide Summit

Advertising

AdForum's true value: Learning from visionaries, bringing home gold

30 Oct 2023

Source: © 123rf Johanna McDowell, CEO of the Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) and Scopen partner says don't get caught out at pitching time

Marketing

It's pitching time as marketers are looking ahead to 2024

Johanna McDowell 27 Sep 2023

Source: © 123rf With Agency Scope SA 2023/2024 fieldwork well into its third month with close to 200 interviews completed, the survey has enjoyed a very good response

Marketing

Agency Scope SA 2023/2024: A very good response

21 Aug 2023

IAS Agency Credentials Award 2023: Guidance for a shot at the prize

Marketing

IAS Agency Credentials Award 2023: Guidance for a shot at the prize

Issued by DMASA 17 Jul 2023

Source: © 123rf Already within the first three weeks of fieldwork over 150 marketers committed to an interview for Agency Scope

Research

Agency Scope part of SA agency and marketing industry culture

6 Jul 2023

Source: Campaign Creators Even as we get used to remote and hybrid boardrooms and studios, nothing substitutes for in-person pitches writes Johanna McDowell, CEO of the Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) and Scopen partner

Marketing

Exclusive: The jury's in: Reality wins in visual versus virtual pitches

Johanna McDowell 26 Jun 2023

Source © 123rf The face-to-face interviews - approximately 60 minutes in length per professional interviewee - results in a non-biased, academic-style view of the facts for the Agency Scope report

Research

Agency Scope SA 2023-24 field work to begin

13 Jun 2023

IAS Agency Credentials Award 2023 beefs up agency opportunities to shine

Marketing

IAS Agency Credentials Award 2023 beefs up agency opportunities to shine

Issued by DMASA 22 May 2023

Source © alphaspirit The fieldwork for Agency Scope South Africa 2023/2024 is set to make tracks in May,

Research

Agency Scope SA: Divulging what marketers really think

17 Mar 2023

Source: © Canva Studio It’s clear that in the creative industries, creativity is enhanced by being in contact with colleagues

Marketing

Predicting 2023 for creative agencies and clients

Johanna McDowell 12 Dec 2022

Source: © Fauxels Independent Agency Search & Selection Company and Eley Consulting have formed a partnership offering media assurance auditing

Media

IAS, Eley Consulting partner in media assurance auditing

1 Nov 2022

Source © Paul Skorupskas The fifth wave of the Agency Scope study is on track in South Africa with fieldwork on the study beginning in May 2023

Research

Scopen 2023/24: South Africa's fifth wave study set for May

25 Oct 2022

Source: © fauxels CMOs want one agency within their ecosystem that is an integrator

Marketing

Integrators and relationships: what CMOs are looking for from agencies

Cesar Vacchiano 29 Aug 2022

Source: © rawpixel Is the age-old billable hours system starting to give way to the rise of ‘output-based costing? It might be the case

Advertising

Output-based costing: An alternative to billable hours for agencies?

Johanna McDowell 28 Jul 2022

Source: © rawpixel The Agency Scopen has revealed some key trends in the SA agency market

Marketing & Media

Key marketing and media agency trends in South Africa

13 Jun 2022

Agency Scope launches data platform to enable effective business success

Digital

Agency Scope launches data platform to enable effective business success

4 Apr 2022

Winning teams are more than just pitchers

Advertising

Winning teams are more than just pitchers

Johanna McDowell 29 Mar 2022