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 over 100 marketers in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban which consists of creatives, developers, writers, strategists, account managers, producers and many others. We create ideas which impact some of the world’s most recognised brands including KFC, Tecno, BP, Nivea, Nokia and Unilever to disruptive challenger brands like us.
We help our customers of all shapes and sizes decide what’s next for their business, and then we take them there by helping them build great brands and engaging customer experiences.
We are all about creating 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 Cape Town is the retail heartbeat of the group. We are a client-centric team, intent on exploring and encouraging growth for our client portfolios via an omni-channel approach. We employ data-driven strategies that ensure business transformation across the various disciplines.
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.
Avatar PR 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.
Fresh AF is a youth specialist marketing digital agency. We offer brands insights-driven, full-service marketing campaigns from concept creation through to content marketing, and everything in-between. We engage with over 100 000 young people monthly through our own platforms from which we derive the latest trends and insights.
Zibusiso Mkhwanazi is the founder and Group CEO of M&N Brands, a holding company with diversified investments in leading advertising, media and communication businesses.
M&N Brands, owns Avatar JHB, Avatar CPT, Avatar PR, Mela Events, Bozza and AMA a full-service media agency. The group also has M&N Entertainment, a content hub that has already made its first acquisition through the purchase of Zkhiphani.com. The holding company is involved in the Esihlahleni Women’s Empowerment, an NPC dedicated to empowering lives of women from disadvantaged areas.
Zibusiso has more than 20 awards and accolades to his name, including being selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders and a finalist at the Ernest and Young World Entrepreneur Awards.
Zibusiso’s entrepreneurial journey started in his bedroom at the age of 17 with R2000 as seed capital. He has over 20 year’s experience running various agencies which he founded and eventually became Avatar.
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.”
Avatar’s DNA is all about passionate and caring individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit. We have to balance the right amount of science
with the perfect blend of magic and we have to master the art of ideas that move people.
