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2011 Creative Circle Ad of The Year Winners from Ogilvy

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Last night was the South African Creative Circle awards. The creative circle is made up of select members of the South African creative community and aims to develop and improve the standard of the South African advertising industry’s creative product, and to enhance its reputation as one of the country’s world class industries. Ogilvy walked away with wins in TV, Print, Outdoor, and Experiential. Below are the winners. A big thank you to all our clients, partners, and agency teams that helped on this work.

For a run through of all the winners from Creative Circle Chairman Chris Gotz, go to adlip.co.za.

Experiential: 1st Place: Carling Black Label Be The Coach, Ogilvy Cape Town.

2nd Place: Carling Black Label Carling not Darling, Ogilvy Cape Town.

Print 2nd Place Volkswagen BlueMotion, Ogilvy Cape Town.

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Outdoor and Ambient 3rd Place: Volkswagen Marching Band, Ogilvy Cape Town.

TV 3rd Place: KFC So Good, Ogilvy Johannesburg

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Black label Team Wins Best Integrated Sports Marketing Campaign

Carling Cup supportersJOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - FEBRUARY 23, Nicole Flint, Hilary Jamiason, Shawn Katz and Owen Nkumane during the 2012 Virgin Active Sports Industry Awards from Emperors Palace on February 23, 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa Photo by Lee Warren / Gallo Images

Carling Black Label recently won the ‘Best Integrated Sport Marketing Campaign’ award for its campaign ‘Be the Coach’ at the Virgin Active Sports Industry Awards.

The winning concept was based on a key insight into SA football fans: they desperately want to be heard by the coach, in fact, they want to be the coach of their team. So much so that the hand-rolling movement from fans in stands impatiently demanding a substitution for an out-of-favour player has become an iconic South African gesture. 

Responding to this, we gave the supporters of the country’s two biggest clubs, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs, the right to select their starting XI’s for the new Carling Black Label Cup final and to make line-up changes during the game.

10.5 million votes for team selections were cast via USSD codes found under bottle caps on CBL beers in the seven weeks, and the metrics on all the social media and online platforms also showed triple digit growth.

As for the match itself, 85,000 fans attended the sell-out game and millions more watched on television and saw Orlando Pirates win it on penalties.

Andrea Quaye, Carling Black Label’s General Manager, comments on the success of the campaign: “This unique sporting property has turned the tables of sponsorship on its head and continued to change South African beer drinkers’ perceptions of the brand. Carling Black Label’s proposition was brought to life in trade and captured the imagination of soccer loving supporters with the biggest and boldest through-the-line campaign in the history of the brand.”

Carling Black Label fans can look forward to the next Carling Black Label Cup campaign, which kicks off in May this year. To find out more, watch the case study video below.