South Africa part of global Social@Ogilvy rollout
20.05.12
By Herman Manson Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide has announced the rollout of Social@Ogilvy ( @SocialOgilvy ), a unit that promises to deliver social media solutions to Ogilvy clients, and which will operate across numerous marketing disciplines such as advertising, direct marketing and public relations.
The new unit promises to offer brands a broader and more strategically integrated approach to social media than has previously been the case,
or it claims, can be offered by specialist social media agencies.
Speciality offering
The new unit builds on Ogilvy’s global social media capabilities, much of it derived from a speciality offering housed inside Ogilvy Public Relations, into an international network of 550 dedicated social media experts and another 4000 digital experts across 35 markets.
The new practice is also being introduced into Ogilvy’s South African operations, with the local team headed by Joanna Oosthuizen ( @joopr24 ), MD of Ogilvy PR, and Amanda Sevasti Whitehouse ( @AmandaSevasti ), social media account director, both in Johannesburg, and Gavin Levinsohn ( @gavlevie ), MD of Ogilvy Cape Town in the mother city.
Source: MarkLives.com