About Us
We are a multi-disciplinary content agency with access to global expertise in 13 markets. We employ award-winning editors, creatives and industry specialists in each region. Our content is engaging, locally relevant, data-informed and, above all, puts clients and their customers front and centre, leading to proven ROI.
What we do
Great content marketing can increase sales, drive reputation, deepen loyalty and retention, boost recommendations and inspire action. It makes your messages ignite on social media, develop in the pages of award-winning magazines read by millions, inspire mobile purchase, and jump from blogs to crowds on busy streets.
We’ll not only help you create your message, we’ll make sure it gets to where it can connect. All our content is informed by industry-leading insight and strategy – up to and including distribution and audit – and executed by the best cross-channel creatives there are. It might become part of an integrated, multichannel campaign, an e-commerce site, an inspiring magazine, a website, a social game, an app, social media, or TV and audio. It’s wherever your target consumers are.
And while our monitoring teams ensure that it’s always data-driven and tech-enabled, our commercial team can help you monetise it too.
Who we are
B-BBEE
John Brown South Africa is proud to be a B-BBEE Level 1 contributor and an Empowered Supplier under the Revised Codes of Good Practice 2013. As a group, we are totally committed to transformation and embrace it fully. For us, transformation goes beyond compliance – it is embedded in our company values.
In addition to being part of the dentsu Group Empowerment Trust, we also contribute to the education of our employees’ children from nursery to tertiary level. We have expanded our training portfolio with a special focus on media and digital training through skills development, whereby more than 15 tertiary-level students are supported through bursary allocations, coupled with on-the-job training during and after completion of their qualification.
Our track record speaks for itself in the B-BBEE space, and we will continue to pay close attention to every aspect of our empowerment scorecard. Plans are in place to maintain our status under the Media Advertising and Marketing (Mac) Sector Codes, a commitment that is supported at every level of the John Brown Media Group and the global dentsu Group.
Awards
Since the launch of John Brown South Africa in 2007, we have won 255 local and international awards for our work. International awards include The Content Council Pearl Awards (New York) and International Content Marketing Awards (UK), while local accolades include PICA Awards, The Bookmarks, Galliova Awards, SA Publication Forum Awards and New Gen Awards. Most notably, the John Brown Group won the 2019 Best Large Content Agency Award at the International Content Marketing Awards (UK).
