Word on the street continues to suggest that “leading” advertising agency and creative powerhouse, Saatchi & Saatchi (SA), are STILL restricting employees’ access to 2oceansvibe.

Saatchi & Saatchi SA’s website
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For a company so highly regarding in the SA advertising industry, one wonders how long this China-like restriction on websites will be condoned. Even the likes of DiData and Discovery eventually lifted the block, realising that the country’s most well-read lifestyle blog should surely form a part of their employees’ local online vocabulary. Would that not stunt creativity?

With big companies and ad agencies in the US and most of the developed world focussing so heavily on blog advertising and marketing, it becomes clearer why the South African advertising industry’s glory and respect has faded so dramatically following the successes of yesteryear.

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