AVATAR is an established and successful full-service agency group with specialist agencies in traditional advertising, digital advertising, public relations, B2B consulting, and media.
AVATAR unites a professional team of well over 100 marketers in Johannesburg and Durban which consists of creatives, developers, writers, strategists, account managers, producers, and many others. We keep creating ideas that impact some of the world’s most recognised brands including ISUZU, ABSA, Bata, South African Tourism, Puma Energy, National Lottery, Snowflake, Robertsons and LegalWise to disrupt, challenge, and enhance consumer perception and participation, give your competitors sleepless nights, and impact your market position positively.
We are all about Imagining Growth Together for our clients, their customers and brands of all shapes and sizes. Let’s partner in deciding what’s next for your business, and then, let’s take it there by helping you build iconic brands, sales success, market growth, and a loyal as well as engaged customer base.
If we Imagine Growth Together – We can create Ideas That Move People.
Avatar Jozi is a born-digital, integrated agency placed at the intersection of South African culture in Johannesburg. Inspired by our purpose to cultivate ideas that move people, we create work that speaks to diverse audiences. Our office locations and our people are reflective of those audiences, enabling us to derive the human truth behind our data approach.
Avatar DBN is an award-winning, full-service agency specialising in FMCG, retail, below-the-line, and shopper communication. We deliver smart, insightful and relevant cross-channel brand experiences that move people – and our clients’ products.
North Star is an agile team of thinkers, storytellers, data engineers, and connectors. As an award-winning agency, we build trust and take pride in engineering purpose-driven narratives across the entire media ecosystem, fusing data-driven creative, digital marketing and traditional public relations into a communications agency built for the future.
We are a transparent, digital-first, data and tech-driven media agency with ROI being our foundation. We strategically integrate into the Avatar Group network to provide not just a media lens but also advise how different strategies from digital, brand and communication collide with media. We speak with our customers’ customer at the opportune moment, using the most engaging messages to drive them to take the desired action.
We are a B2B growth practice made up of entrepreneurs, strategists, designers, marketers, technologists, and creative content experience makers. United in a shared passion for your growth, we work with our clients to engage customers, influence sales prospects, rally employees and execute digital transformation programmes.
Luckily there’s still the rest of Africa and the World.
That’s why we try even harder, every day.
A strategist turned creative, Veli has not only co-founded Avatar, but also inspired a new agency offering, YGK, and is part of M&N Brands, a holding company with diversified investments in leading advertising, media and communication businesses.
Veli serves as Advisory Board Chairman at the Red & Yellow School, sits on the IAB’s Transformation & Education Council, is a DMA Board Member and has judged the Loeries, Apex, Bookmarks, Pendorings, PRISM and AdFocus Awards.
Constantly learning, constantly innovating, 36-year-old Veli has also learnt the pitfalls of success, “I have learnt that one must define what success means to oneself, as there is a great danger with conforming to the one society creates.”
Zibusiso has been in the industry for the past 23 years running various agencies. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a finalist for the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year and 2025 Agency Leader of the Year.
He has completed management programs at Harvard and Yale Universities.
Avatar’s DNA is all about passionate and caring individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our goal is to Liberate African Creativity for The World. We want this for every single creative individual in Mzansi and on the continent, for every client, every brand, every business, every enterprise, all types of organisations, every start-up, and for every generation, in any sector. Unleash the African creative excellence that’s within you.
14 July 2021
14 July 2021
14 July 2021
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