Awards season has been in full swing with some great results at Cannes Lions, Bookmarks, The Gong Gong Awards, the Mark Awards and our very own Giraffe Awards.
Cannes saw great returns for the Groupe with congratulations going to Publicis West Africa for supporting Publicis Singapore who won 1 Gold and 4 Bronzes for Vaseline’s The real Nigerian Prince campaign, LePub with two Cannes shortlists for Heineken’s Bar De Change and Max Speed pieces and Machine with three shortlists for Spotify’s Don’t.Stop.The.Music. And closing out the festival with Leo winning Regional agency of the year at Cannes Lions.
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Bookmarks had 8 judges from the Groupe overseeing the best digital work from the last year and on the night saw 21 finalists convert into LePub winning 5 Bronze and 4 silver Pixels for the Heineken brand and Machine winning 2 Bronzes for Spotify. With one of LePub’s Clients Andrea Quaye from Heineken winning Digital Marketer of the Year
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The Gong Gong’s were up next, and the Publicis West Africa team owned the night at Ghana’s Local Awards show. No less than 16 Golds, agency of the year and their client Nestle’ walked away with brand of the year
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The Publicis Groupe Africa Giraffe Awards showcased the very best work from across the Groupe with Special Honours going to The Partnership for their Red Giraffe for the best example of Power of One, Heineken Social Screens from LePub winning the Black Giraffe, not failing to mention that The Production Practice and not LePub Johannesburg won a Gold for Heineken Max Speed in the Design Craft, a Gold in Digital Craft for Heineken Social Screens and a Silver for Heineken Max Speed in Post Production. The overall winners were, in Third place, The Partnership, Second Place, Machine_SA and in First Place LePub.
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Lastly, the Mark Awards were hosted recently with a special mention to our Fearless CEO Koo Govender who represented Publicis Groupe Africa as a judge in the XXX Category. And on the awards day, saw Machine_SA winning Gold and Best of show in Out Of Home for the Spotify Don’t.Stop.The.Music. campaign and LePub walking away with a Bronze for the Max Speed work.
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With all these wins, we have to show some new pieces of work from across the Groupe.
First up is LePub with their latest MacDonalds campaign for the Mega Cheesy Burger and the Mcflurry Pistachio
The Toyota Hilux campaign is back for a third instalment of the “It’s not a Bakkie Campaign” from the Publicis Studio One team
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Machine’s new campaign Aw’phelelwa kuSpotify just hits different
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