Pop-up tasting room for La Capra

Categories: Brand Communications, News, Our Work

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The standard way to launch a wine brand is to invite journalists to a stuffy wine bar, swirl some glasses around and talk about terroir... very seriously (yawn). Luckily Fairview wanted something different for the launch of their latest adventure in wine La Capra. Our solution was a Victorian-era styled gypsy caravan complete with vaudeville three piece band and Bridget Back (daughter of the famous Charles Back) dressed up as a fortune teller. We  invited media to come and experience the new wine ... Read More

Sepp (the dog) flies kulula

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kulula haven't exactly been wallflowers during the World Cup (just how we like our clients). Our latest adventure with them saw us flying a young Boston Terrier called Sepp Blatter around South Africa for free (see the release below for the reason why). Sepp was such a hit with kulula they have temporarily donated their Facebook page to him. The young dog has made many friends during his 15 minutes of fame largely helped by media coverage in most South African dailies ... Read More

Branson launches Fans In Training for Virgin Active

Categories: Brand Communications, News, Our Work

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We launched Virgin Active's Fans In Training classes recently with a photo call with Sir Richard Branson himself at the Sandton Virgin Active. He joined in a streaker training class (while he was fully clothed the rest of the participants were draped in strategically placed flags) and was given a lesson in vuvuzela playing by two characters called TK & Vusi. Read More

V&A Waterfront secures giant wheel to Cape Town for World Cup 2010 (client release)

Categories: Brand Communications, Client Releases, News, Our Work

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Cape Town, April 2010: The V&A Waterfront, Cape Town’s oldest working harbour and iconic retail, leisure and hospitality destination, has secured the exclusive right to host the 50m high Wheel of Excellence as one of its attractions for local and international visitors over the upcoming FIFA World Cup tournament. The Wheel of Excellence, a fully illuminated giant wheel will feature 36 fully enclosed luxury cabins which will treat visitors to a unique sightseeing opportunity - providing an eagle eye view of the V&A ... Read More

kulula trademarks the Sky(tm)

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Ok so this was an April Fools joke. But believe it or not kulula's attempt to trademark the sky did have a few people going for a while. The announcement came the week after kulula made headlines around the world for its cheeky new advertising campaign and the subsequent unamused reaction from FIFA. For April Fools we issued a release claiming to have trademarked the sky between 10000 ft and 35000 ft. We also produced a handy PDF guide to the trademark ... Read More

kulula launches new planes and a challenge to rivals

Categories: Brand Communications, News

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kulula is gearing up for the World Cup with a burst of activity. First off the latest design for one of their new 737-800's went supernova on the blogosphere (before the plane even touched down in South Africa). The story pretty much sold itself (but we were responsible for seeding it with some key bloggers). Coverage included some of the world's biggest blogs including Boing Boing (which crashed local blogger Chris Rawlinson's site when it linked to him) and Gizmodo. We then ... Read More

The kulula beach index

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Atmosphere recently launched the Kulula beach index for kulula.com. We worked with a freelance economist to figure out the cheapest beach destinations in South Africa - just in time for the summer holiday season. To get the figures we looked at the price of fish & chips amongst other typical holiday costs for a family of four. Stillbaai in the Western Cape came out as the cheapest and Camps Bay in Cape Town (maybe not surpisingly) came out as most expensive. The ... Read More

We launch kulula’s inflight entertainment podcast

Categories: Brand Communications, News, Our Work, Social Media

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Based on the insight that most people’s inflight entertainment for short haul trip these days is on there iPod we have put together a pilot podcast that is now available on the kulula air home page. The idea was to find some interesting local personalities to interview that would be of interest for both business and leisure travellers on the airline. We invited Seth from 2oceansvibe, brad from beer salon &Union, Thierry from Z News and The Kings of Vegas along for ... Read More

Atmosphere creates pop-up salon for ghd

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The ghd style lounge is now in its second year and touring Cape Town, Joburg and Durban at the moment. Conceived by Atmosphere the event is (as far as we know) the world's only pop-up hair salon. We've worked with sister agency Hammer to create the travelling salon and Cow to create the digital elements of the campaign. The activity was designed to create multiple touchpoints with consumers integrating PR, social media and events to educate and inspire consumers. A limited number of ... Read More

Steri Stumpie social media campaign

Categories: Brand Communications, News, Our Work, Social Media

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Our social media activity for Steri Stumpie has gone from strength-to-strength over the last couple of months. We've had some amazing feedback on the campaign which lives across a blog, Facebook and Twitter.  Our aim is to incite and encourage fans of the brand to send us content (photos/videos etc) that display their love for the brand. Each month we also choose one official unofficial brand ambassador who recieve a performance from their very own marching band. The campaign is a collaboration ... Read More