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04 Aug 10
Boerie blast for spice meisters, Freddy Hirsch
Zoom chose SA’s iconic boerewors as the standard bearer for a national promotion for renowned spice traders and meat magnificos, Freddy Hirsch.
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06 Jul 10
Bright ideas for Flash mobile technology
Highly flexible design solutions are helping to spread the Flash savings and credit co-op concept, driven by Cell C. Through Flash, shop owners can sell on airtime and electricity and facilitate money transfers at rates cheaper than banks.
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01 Jul 10
Backsberg wines Tread Lightly in innovative new bottle
Zoom further honed its green credentials by helping Backsberg, the first SA winery to achieve carbon neutral status, to again make history. The project was the launch of the first certified wines in South Africa to be sold in Mondi’s innovative, light* PET soft bottle.
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16 Jun 10
Zoom helps Shoprite sell teamwork to 90 000 employees
A staff motivation programme for a group of companies with over 90 000 employees, across 1 400 branches in nine SA provinces and further within Africa, Shoprite’s BBB exercise is no small task. But Zoom was thrilled to kick off and run with the 2010 gameplan.
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01 Jun 10
In search of Shoprite Group’s Topstars
Separate but simultaneous with the Shoprite BBB programme, the Topstars internal talent search – lead by South african music icon, Mynie Grové – has also demanded of Zoom a combination of inspirational design and seamless organisation.
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01 May 10
Apex Award for Zoom’s U.N. enviro campaign
‘Advertising that works’ was rewarded in May when Zoom scooped a bronze at the 2010 Apex Awards*. The winning campaign was its ‘Consider Us’ launch for the United Nations Environmental Programme Finance Initiative’s global round table summit. This spearheaded Cape Town Green Week and was an important event in the run-up to the 15th climate change summit in Copenhagen in December 2009.
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29 Apr 10
Leica helps launch SA photographic archive
Zoom produced sleek design worthy of both the iconic camera brand and the event, when Gavin Furlonger’s Photographic Archival & Preservation Association (PAPA) held an exhibition at Wembley Square between April and June.
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20 Jan 10
PEPcell’s RICA RICHES a roaring success
the new RICA act, Zoom launched the PEPcell RICA RICHES campaign at the start of December. Six weeks into this 13-month campaign, the numbers are simply staggering.
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30 Oct 09
Zoom’s bread now buttered on both sides
Having handled the SASKO below-the-line and packaging work for around two and a half years, Zoom added the balance of the SASKO Bakeries account to their portfolio in October 2010.
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30 Sep 09
Building the Steinbuild brands
In October 2010 Zoom Advertising was awarded the Steinbuild account, comprising both the Pennypinchers and Timbercity brands.
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23 Jun 09
APEX Gold & Grand Prix for PEP Generations
Following their Gold and Grand Prix at the 2009 Sunday Times Marketing Excellence Awards, Zoom Advertising repeated this feat at the prestigious APEX Awards for Effective Marketing with Gold and Grand Prix for their PEP Generations campaign.
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03 Oct 08
Zoom challenges brands that aren't conscious
By publishing an illuminating little book called 'The Conscious Brand', Zoom Advertising explains the agency's sustainable approach to business (and life in general).
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05 Jun 08
Innovation pays off for Zoom
After a three-way pitch, Zoom Advertising has been awarded the Jordan Shoes account.
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09 May 08
Zoom is zero-rated
Zoom Advertising is the first advertising agency in South Africa to become carbon neutral.
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23 Jan 08
Zoom lands the plum job
CareerJunction - the largest jobs portal in South Africa - has appointed Zoom Advertising to handle all its marketing and advertising with immediate effect.
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