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Brand Strategy & Positioning
Clarity on where your brand stands, where it is going and how it should be understood.
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35 – 16th Avenue Media House
Strategy, media, creative and craft under one roof, building brands people choose to follow.
We partner with brands, founders and organisations to define who they are, develop stories worth telling and put that work where it matters most.
A full-service agency built for the story-first era
35 – 16th Avenue Media House is a proudly South African agency working at the intersection of strategy, media, creativity and craft.
From boardroom presentations to social feeds, from brand launches to long-term brand building, we bring strategy, creative, content and growth together. One team. One address for your brand. One clear story.
Great brands are built through more than beautiful visuals. They are built through clear positioning, meaningful stories and communication that reaches the right audience.
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Team, one clear story
What we do
Integrated services across strategy, branding, content, digital and media, delivered end to end by one team.
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Brand Identity & Design
Visual identity systems that make a brand recognisable everywhere it appears.
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Content Production
Video, photography and audio built around the bigger brand story.
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Social Media Management
Consistent, relevant presence across the channels your audience actually uses.
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Digital Campaigns & Paid Media
Creative and media planning that puts the right message in front of the right audience.
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Web & Digital Experiences
Websites, landing pages and microsites designed to move people toward action.
Explore this serviceHow we work
Great creative work starts with great thinking. Our process takes a brand from discovery through to measurement.
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Discover
We listen before we create. We immerse ourselves in your brand, market, audience, competitors and ambitions to understand what makes the business different.
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Define
We create the blueprint. Positioning, story, messaging and strategic direction become the foundation everything else follows.
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Create
We bring the strategy to life through identities, content, campaigns and experiences built to make an impact.
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Amplify
We put your story where your audience lives, across social, digital platforms, campaigns and broader media opportunities.
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Measure
We report against agreed measures, analyse performance and keep refining the work.
What working with us feels like
Storytellers at heart
We are a media house before we are an agency. Narrative is our native language, whether we are developing an identity, producing a film or running a feed.
Boutique speed, full-service range
You get the range of a full-service agency with the attention and agility of a boutique team. Senior people stay close to every account.
A proudly South African lens
We understand how stories need to land across boardrooms, townships, timelines and communities, with an African perspective that still travels.
Accountable to numbers
Creative work should look good and it should work. We connect creativity to commercial objectives and measure against agreed goals.
Let us build your next chapter
Your brand has a story. Tell us where you want it to go and we will show you how we would get there.
What clients say
We came in asking for a new logo and left with a business case for how we talk about ourselves. The identity followed, and it was better for it.
Nomsa Dlamini
Marketing Director, financial services
The team shot three days of content and gave us a library we used for eight months. Nothing felt recycled.
Ruan Kotze
Founder, consumer goods start-up
Reporting is the part I appreciate most. We know what the spend did, every month, in plain language.
Thabo Mabaso
Head of Growth, professional services
From the studio
Notes on brand building, production and marketing in the South African market.
Why positioning should come before the logo
Most rebrands start with a visual problem. The real problem is usually a sentence nobody in the business can agree on.
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What separates content people watch from content people skip
Production value helps. It is not the reason someone stays past the first four seconds.
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Building brands that land in the South African market
A campaign can be technically correct and still feel imported. Local context is not a decoration you add at the end.
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