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and Creative Y&R and SCANAD Kenya are also winners. To reach this level and master advertising, agencies have to work hard. To be effective, great advertising doesn’t need to be pretty. It doesn’t even need to be visual. It certainly doesn’t need to be expensive. What it does need – and here’s the real secret – is a quality of unexpectedness. Advertising that is memorable and truly delights the audience is unpredictable, a little out-there, and sometimes crazy. It’s important not to forget to have some fun. I believe that advertising needs to be everywhere the customers are, and today’s customers are in wildly different places. Our attention is divided by multiple platforms and it’s very difficult to attract our focus. This means that brands need to work a great deal harder to engage with us, putting award-winning creativity front and centre for the foreseeable future. Purchase decisions are often based on emotion not logic. And it’s the role of advertisers to sway those emotions in favour of your product. Humour is really good at delivering a compelling message, and any time people share your advertising, you’re onto a winner. From this year, in August, the Loeries is now including points for Finalists in its Official Rankings across Africa and the Middle East. In the past the Loeries only awarded points for Bronze awards and above. From 2018, ten Finalists awards will be equivalent to one Bronze award, and Finalist points will be capped to a maximum of 30 Finalists – equival