
WORK WITH US
As a leading cultural compass for the now in Africa, we are uniquely positioned to help clients, brands and creatives effectively capture the dynamic and rapidly growing African market.
We have a local focus with a global reach.
We take clients from ideation to execution and utilise our unique media ecosystem to amplify these services when needed.
OUR AGENCY OFFERS:
Advertorial and Editorial Campaigns
We craft editorially-led stories and branded content that live across our magazine, digital channels, and partner platforms. Our approach balances exceptional creative direction and narrative integrity with brand messaging to create culturally resonant, high-impact campaigns.
Production
From creative development to final delivery, we produce photo, video, and multimedia content rooted in visual culture. Our network of emerging and established creatives ensures bold, relevant output across formats.
Youth Culture Data Insights and Reporting
We translate youth sentiment into strategy through surveys, interviews, and cultural listening. Our reports deliver real-time insight into emerging trends, behaviours, and subcultural shifts.
Paid Media
We activate campaigns through precision-targeted media buys across social, digital, and niche platforms. Our placements are informed by data and designed for resonance, reach, and return.
Content Marketing
We develop content ecosystems that connect brands to audiences through ongoing storytelling. From always-on assets to campaign bursts, we deliver value that makes a cultural impact, beyond just the scroll.
Strategy
We define and position brands at the intersection of culture and commerce. Our strategic offering spans audience architecture, brand articulation, and campaign direction.
We support clients from ideation, right through to execution and utilise our platform to amplify each project’s success and reach to our discerning readers and followers across the world. We use our advanced audience insight and youth culture-centered lens to inform strategic campaigns that make an impact.
As an independent media house CEC is a trusted source of critical and current content – allowing us to organically amplify campaigns, storytelling and co-branded content.
ABOUT US
An independent media space & integrated agency capturing the zeitgeist of South Africa’s creative arts community. Covering news, music, fashion, art, culture and creativity.
We are committed to analysing, curating, and proliferating stories of youth culture & creativity; this is essential in harnessing the explosive potential of South African brands, creatives and wayshowers.
We focus on innovation and selling newness through our curatorial lens of popular culture and storytelling. We believe that independent media is critical for containing and creating impactful content as it happens.
With the integration of our media publication and digital agency, we offer a uniquely positioned set of skills and services that effectively capture the markets’ shifting landscape and allow us to amplify campaigns, editorials and co-branded content through our media eco-system. Contact us for media submissions, advertising and sponsored article content and head to our agency page to find out more about our services.
OUR MANIFESTO
The world exists in a constant state of flow. A sunset gust in Acapulco becomes a summer tide in Tahiti.
Information flies across the world untethered, but it can be directed, curated and injected with positive energy. Everything is connected, yet sometimes we can only see that looking backwards towards the past.
What if we could connect things yet to come through vision and foresight?
Through understanding the shifts that created the challenges and recognising the best way to change them requires our technique, intuition and vast experience.
We exist for our community, businesses and brands to thrive by always connecting everything forwards; into the future and beyond.
CEC – a producer, an orchestrator and a multiplier: Bringing value to your brands, business and our community where it matters most…
By Connecting Everything Clearly.
We are culture. We are Connect Everything Collective.