Full-Service Advertising Agency · South Africa

THE PURSUIT
OF REMARKABLE

HOOLA is a full-service advertising agency in Gqeberha, South Africa. We bring brand, strategy, digital and creative together to solve business problems and deliver impact you can measure.

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What we do

BUSINESS LEADS BRAND.
BRAND DIRECTS STRATEGY.
STRATEGY FUELS CREATIVITY.
DIGITAL PROVES IT.

We bring brand, strategy, digital and creative together under one roof, giving businesses one connected partner from strategic thinking through to execution and measurement.

BRAND

01

Every brand is different, so we start by learning our client’s. Your brand team sits between your business goals and everything this agency makes, so nothing leaves here that doesn’t serve you.

Brand consultingClient partnershipsBrand immersion

STRATEGY

02

Good ideas need a plan behind them. We build strategy from stakeholder discovery through to reporting, and we change it when the numbers tell us to.

Marketing consultingTTL campaignsBrand positioningBrand architectureHuman truths

DIGITAL

03

Data without interpretation is just numbers. We read it, act on it, and grow your presence instead of just keeping it alive.

Social mediaSEO/SEMGoogle ads (PPC)Community managementWeb design

CONCEPT & COPY

04

Every idea starts with something true about the people you’re talking to. We find that first. Scripts, campaigns, single lines — all of it comes after, and all of it comes from there.

Creative ideationScript writingCampaign mapping

CREATIVE

05

Creativity isn’t decoration and it isn’t a shelf of awards. It’s the sharpest tool we have for solving a business problem, and we use it that way.

Content creationTTL productionUX & UI designCorporate identity

Our story

DIFFERENCE
DRIVEN.
PEOPLE
FIRST.

2018
Founded
8
Years in business
22+
HOOLAgans

HOOLA is a full-service advertising agency built on one belief: business leads brand, not the other way around. When we understand what the business needs, the brand work will always have somewhere to go.

We started in 2018 out of necessity. With a strong link to the ‘client-side’, the ambition was to create the organisation we would have wanted as an agency partner.

Today we work across brand, strategy, digital and creative from Gqeberha. We don’t accept that you have to choose between work that’s beautiful and work that performs.

Who we work with

GOOD
COMPANY.

We work with ambitious brands across sport and lifestyle, retail, food and beverage, financial services, property and the public sector, each with a different business problem to solve through brand, strategy, creative and digital.

GLOBAL
FSC — HOOLA Agency client
Duca del Cosma — HOOLA Agency client
Adisseo — HOOLA Agency client
ASI — HOOLA Agency client
LOCAL
Puma — HOOLA Agency client
Score — HOOLA Agency client
Umbro — HOOLA Agency client
Hi-Tec — HOOLA Agency client
Airwalk — HOOLA Agency client
First Choice — HOOLA Agency client
John Deere — HOOLA Agency client
Buco — HOOLA Agency client
Billabong — HOOLA Agency client
Quiksilver — HOOLA Agency client
Roxy — HOOLA Agency client
RVCA — HOOLA Agency client
Coega — HOOLA Agency client
Mandela Bay Development Agency — HOOLA Agency client
Tekkie Town — HOOLA Agency client
Just Property — HOOLA Agency client
BKB — HOOLA Agency client
KFC — HOOLA Agency client
Teneo — HOOLA Agency client
Trumps — HOOLA Agency client
Standard Bank — HOOLA Agency client
Timbercity — HOOLA Agency client

How we work

MADE BY PEOPLE
FOR PEOPLE.

The best advertising comes from understanding people properly, their culture, their pressures & what they actually want. That takes time and it takes people.

OUR
APPROACH

Every engagement starts with people. We get inside your world, find what actually drives behaviour, and build work that gets felt, not just seen.

01

DISCOVERY & IMMERSION

Stakeholder interviews, consumer immersion, cultural research. We’re after your world, not just your brief. We live the brand before we build for it.

02

FINDING THE TRUTH

Our creative teams go looking for the tension, the thing your audience feels but hasn’t said out loud. Everything creative gets built on top of it.

03

CRAFT & CREATION

Writers, art directors and designers put intention in everything they produce. Nothing leaves this studio without a thought behind it.

04

MEASURE & OPTIMISE

We track every metric back to a business outcome. We report honestly, including when it isn’t working, and change course accordingly.

The promise

Work that means something to the people you’re trying to reach,
and still means something a year from now.

FELT
Not just seen
BUILT
To last
TRUE
Not assumed

Number of clients served

152

Campaigns delivered

1,474

Client retention

4+ Years

The Hoolagans

THIS IS US.

A collection of people, diverse in almost every way that matters and aligned on the things that count: integrity, humility, and a real appetite for the work. Capable and resourceful in equal measure. We’re here to make effective work that our clients are proud to put their name to.

Danie Brink, CEO & Founder at HOOLA Agency
The Vision
Danie Brink
CEO & Founder

Combining commercial insight with brand strategy and creative thinking to help ambitious businesses grow. He builds lasting client partnerships around a clear principle: great marketing should deliver measurable business value.

Jadine van Breda, Managing Director at HOOLA Agency
The Logic
Jadine van Breda
Managing Director

Combining over a decade of experience in creative, strategy and business leadership to solve business challenges. She identifies opportunities and translates strategic thinking into action, aligning commercial insight, creativity and people to drive business success.

Brad Dubbelman, Strategic & Digital Director at HOOLA Agency
The Brains
Brad Dubbelman
Strategic & Digital Director

Combining research, data and consumer insight to develop strategic brand and marketing solutions. He challenges convention, uncovers new opportunities and translates insight into strategies that drive meaningful business growth.

Senzo Xulu, Executive Creative Director at HOOLA Agency
The Guru
Senzo Xulu
Executive Creative Director

Combining creative thinking, digital expertise and brand understanding to develop impactful digital experiences. He connects creativity with strategy and data to build meaningful brand engagement, drive digital effectiveness and deliver measurable business results.

Jamie Bell, Creative Director at HOOLA Agency
The Guardian
Jamie Bell
Creative Director

Combining over 30 years of international advertising agency experience with expertise in creative concept development, brand building and design integration. He connects strategic thinking with creative execution to build distinctive brands and deliver impactful communication.

Get in touch

LET’S GET
TO WORK

Tell us what the business needs to do.
We’ll tell you how we’d do it.

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130 Fordyce Road, Walmer, Gqeberha, South Africa+27 41 587 5009info@hoola.agency