Ad agency FCB is celebrating its 90th anniversary in South Africa, and Brendan Seery has a Bouquet of Orchids for them.
Cute animals are always scene-stealers in movies or advertising but kids steal the limelight from even the cutest puppy.
Sometimes animals in ads are cute, but sometimes they cause ructions, as when the Cell C dog annoyed a few Mother Grundys.
As a body of work, FCB's years of ads for Toyota would have to receive the Grand Orchid.
FCB's client list reads like a Who's Who of top SA companies: Toyota, FNB, Absa, Cell C, Sasol, Engen, Tiger Brands, Eskom and Vodacom. Here are three of their standout ...
The sweet innocence of FCB's "Glug-glug" and "Baby in the pram" ads for Sasol make them some of SA's favourites.
One of the cleverest lines in SA advertising has to be "Met Eish", which surfaced in FCB's "Friendly Frikkie" ads for Distell's Klipdrift Brandy.
As a product range, Volkswagen’s Golf 7 is arguably the best hatchback on the market. I know Audi fans will say their brand’s Sportback models, based on the same ...
The Loeries scandal highlights how we suspend critical thinking when overwhelmed by hype, writes Brendan Seery.
The FNB campaign is simply a risky attack on the government – for whom two-thirds vote
It’s a sad affair when a business weaves a web of deceit and duplicity
Apart from making a lot of money, FNB has also won many new clients… probably due to Steve.
Anti-poaching forces to use state-of-the-art tools to stop the slaughter, writes Brendan Seery.
The defenders of South Africa’s threatened rhinos have deployed new major weapons in the fight against poachers.
As monuments go, the floating chapel in the Störmthaler See, outside Leipzig in central Germany, is unusual not only because of its construction but because of what ...
The killers of Brett Goldin and his friend need further rehabilitation, not parole, says Goldin’s mother Denise
Maybe I was tired from my Sunday morning run, or that it took just minutes to go through the screaming headlines of the Sunday Times.
The 1750 feels, subjectively anyway, not that quick. And it doesn’t seem to have the flair that its smaller-engined siblings have – to say nothing about the Mito, ...
In assigning guilt to only one sector of the population – and it is very easy to do this, ask Adolf Hitler – commentators are helping to cover up the debate which ...
Maybe it’s because I’m white, born and raised in southern Africa. Maybe it’s because, in more than 25 years as journalist, many of those covering horrors across ...
For years during the reign of the old Nat government, the De Hoop area in the southern Cape was a vast, unknown, and off-limits place – our equivalent of America’s ...
There is a huge, 18km-long vlei inland from the sea at De Hoop, a delightful wetland which has international protected status under the Ramsar conventions.
Almost every week in Saturday Star Travel, we receive complaints from visitors to government-run provincial and national parks. Lovely places, bad maintenance and ...