The Work of Society: Archive

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The first video from our Speak Up project for Capitec Bank. Jon Cherry from Cherryflava.com gives us his thoughts on how banking could be re-imagined.

Feb 22nd

Walk through time for Johnnie Walker Africa

Johnnie Walker Africa has been with us since almost day 1. We now manage communities across Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Angola, Cameroon (and other French speaking markets) and various places in between. Given that we are one of the drinks brands to really embrace social media at scale in many of the markets there are high interaction / engagement rates on most content (less local clutter on...

Feb 18th

Crowdsourcing new ideas on banking for Capitec...

We’ve recently launched a campaign to crowdsource ideas on how banking could be improved for Capitec Bank. Ideas are submitted via the Capitec Facebook Page and we’ve been sharing the best ones and other inspirational content through their social media channels. We’ve had 500+ so far and they range from drive through ATMs to creative uses of mobile phones to send and track...

Feb 12th

We're hiring! Looking for a social media creative

We’re looking for: A Copywriter / Social Media Creative King James social media and community building unit Society (previously +one) is looking to add a new copywriter / Social Media Creative to join our award winning team. Our clients include some of South Africa’s best known consumer brands including Johnnie Walker, Bells, J&B West Africa, Steri Stumpie and Europcar. We also do...

Feb 2nd

Jan 18th

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New work for J&B West Africa

We recently launched some new activity for J&B West Africa including regular streamed DJ mixes and what we’re calling the J&B Party Machine. It basically mixes a drink and mixes a Hip Hop track at the same time: the glass choice is also the beat choice, the mixer choice adds melody etc. It will be supported by Facebook advertising in the new year. I’m afraid most if its in...

Dec 22nd

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Dec 9th

Dispatches from the Facebook mothership

We were lucky enough to sit in on a presentation from one of the global Facebook representatives this morning and these are some of the notes: What’s singing out very clearly is that we’re a mobile lead market (alongside others such as Nigeria and soon to be mobile-led markets like Ghana and Kenya). At the current rate of growth there is likely to be more Facebook users than...

Dec 2nd

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Dan's slides from 27 Dinners Cape Town

How to achieve intergalactic domination in 2012 - some notes to self View more presentations from Dan Pinch

Nov 27th

Two Silver Bookmarks

In our debut at the Bookmark Awards (SA’s digital awards). We’re very pleased to have picked up two Silver awards in the social media category. One for kulula’s tenth birthday and the other for Plascon (both integrated campaigns that included a number of agencies within the King James Group).

Nov 16th

New Request a Steri tab

We recently launched a Request a Steri tab on Facebook allowing fans of the flavoured milk brand to request an emergency Steri Stumpie drop or introduce someone who’s never tried it (if such people really exist…).

Nov 16th