M&C Saatchi Abel is a creative company with over 200 talented, creative & diverse people driven by the philosophy of Brutal Simplicity of Thought. Since opening in 2010, the agency has been recognised by Financial Mail twice as Agency of the Year, as well as winning the coveted Partnership of the Year award with their clients Nando’s and the Takealot Group. Delivering integrated and connected creative solutions for a broad range of clients, the agency seeks out to create beautifully simple solutions for today’s increasingly complex and challenging world. The Street Store, a not for profit movement created and run by the agency, has to date clothed over 500,000 homeless people around the world and been recognised as one of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas.
M&C Saatchi Abel is a part of M&C Saatchi Group South Africa.
From full integration to a particular communications discipline, the choice is yours. M&C Saatchi Abel has specialists across a broad spectrum of services, and deploys them in ways that have the greatest positive impact on the brands we work with.
ATL
You may think of it as “traditional” advertising, but we see TV, radio, press, print and out-of-home as the perfect opportunity to make big brand statements, in ways that are both relevant and refreshingly unexpected.
Retail
Whether retail or e-tail, few agencies have the experience and the agility to manage quick turn-around, high-impact retail campaigns, which is exactly what we do for clients such as Edgars, Nedbank and takealot.com. Our services extend to promotions and POS for MWEB, Yardley of London and Lil-lets, as well as category branding for brandhouse.
Design
M&C Saatchi Abel’s design talent has won gold awards at Cannes, Clios and Loeries, and has been awarded design projects by clients based in Europe, the rest of Africa, and of course, here at home.
Digital
If there’s one area in which remarkable change is expected on an almost daily basis, it’s in the fast-moving digital space. From the desktop and mobile Internet to the universe of social media and even the Internet of things, our team is passionate about pixels – and about what they can do to give your brand the edge.
Strategy
Great work may be at the heart of what we do, but it’s most effective when rooted in simple, sharp and incisive strategic thinking. This is where our ethos of Brutal Simplicity of Thought truly comes to life, and our strategists strive to cut through the fluff and the noise to produce clear, cogent strategies that provide practical and powerful departure points for the creative work.
Channel
Darwin said that it’s not the strongest that survive, it’s the ones most responsive to change. At Connect, our channel-agnostic approach provides clients with clear, measurable and objective solutions to complex communication problems. It’s simple, really – as long as we remember that consumers will always connect with content that is relevant to them.
CRM
The world of CRM has evolved to a level of complexity that, if allowed to, is potentially paralysing. That’s why we provide simple but very effective CRM services to clients such as the Edcon Group, MWEB and Heineken.
Activations
As our CEO Mike Abel says, behaviour is truth. And there’s no better way to invite consumers to experience the reality of a brand – and to raise engagement – than through carefully-planned and executed activations. From Heineken to MWeb, Frisco to Mr Delivery, and of course The Street Store, an open-source activation that has changed the lives of homeless people around the world, our activations have literally brought our clients’ brands into the hearts and minds of the consumer.
Content
From video to photographic, written or online content, we are able to work beyond our advertising skills and to generate longer-format content for your brand.