Integrated creative agency
TBWA\Hunt Lascaris
TBWA's South African agency, winner of the Grand Effie at the Effie Awards South Africa 2025.
TBWA\Hunt Lascaris is the TBWA network's agency in South Africa; TBWA is one of the three creative networks Omnicom kept in its 2025 consolidation. At the Effie Awards South Africa 2025 it won the Grand Effie, the year's top effectiveness honour, for City Lodge's "Save Our Stay" campaign, plus Gold and Silvers for the same client and a Bronze for Savanna Cider.
Standing in the Report's landscape
No. 7 in Top agencies in the Middle East and Africa, 2026
3 points: the Grand Effie at the Effie Awards South Africa 2025; tied at 3 on an Effie title, it is placed alphabetically.
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The rankings behind it
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Where it shines
- Grand Effie 2025, South Africa's top effectiveness award.
- A multi-award client relationship with City Lodge, shown across Grand, Gold and Silver Effies.
Check before signing
- Owned by a holding group that also owns competing agencies: ask how conflicts are handled.
- Omnicom reorganised its networks in 2025–26: confirm the agency's current name and team.
What it offers
- Industries
- Hospitality and travel
- Markets
- South Africa
How it is classified
- Category
- CreativeFull-service
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Our six checks
- Ownership is public: not known yet
- Services are published: not known yet
- Offices are listed: not known yet
- Privacy is published: not known yet
- Effectiveness is evidenced: met
- Work is shown: not known yet
- Ownership is publicNot assessed
It names its owner (the holding group) or states that it is independent, and names its leadership.
Its brand names the TBWA network (Omnicom); leadership was not checked on its own pages.
- Services are publishedNot assessed
A services or capabilities page says what it does.
Not checked on the agency's own pages for this listing.
- Offices are listedNot assessed
It publishes where it operates: its offices or markets.
Not checked on the agency's own pages for this listing.
- Privacy is publishedNot assessed
Its site has a privacy notice, and a code of conduct where one was seen.
Not checked on the agency's own pages for this listing.
- Effectiveness is evidencedMet
An independent effectiveness ranking or award from 2023 to 2026 names it (the Effie Index, the IPA Effectiveness Awards, the WARC Effective 100).
Grand Effie at the Effie Awards South Africa 2025.
- Work is shownNot assessed
It publishes case studies or named client work.
Award coverage names its City Lodge and Savanna Cider work; its own case pages were not checked.
Not assessed is not a failure — it means we have not checked yet. Methodology
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Identity
| Type | Agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Categories | Creative, Full-service | |
| Founded | Not recorded | |
| Headquarters | South Africa | |
| Ownership | Part of a larger group | |
| Parent company | Omnicom (TBWA) | |
| Added by | IMC Report team |
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The community
| "Looks right" confirmations | 0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Community experiences | 0 |
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