Music video wins Loeries Craft award - Giant Films
The Parlotones hit, "I'll Be There", received a Craft certificate for animation and special visual effects. This marks the first time a music video has won at the Loeries. 11 Aug 2008 11:59

Producing the audiovisual goods for Loeries
A recommendation by Velocity Films executive producer, Peter Carr, saw Be Phat Motel Film Company approached early in 2008 to produce a series of visuals for this year's 30th anniversary Loerie Awards ceremony, specifically the six musical performances. Be Phat Motel is an up-and-coming collaboration between a number of young South African industry professionals. 5 Aug 2008 08:50

Condor Cape Town is the post powerhouse behind nine major Loeries awards - Condor Cape Town
Condor Cape Town proudly salutes its award-winning clients on bringing home no less than nine Loeries, including the Grand Prix. 4 Aug 2008 11:45

Margate, Maputo or Matjiesfontein?
With the dust barely having settled after this year's Loerie Awards, rumours are already flying about which town will host the 2009 event. 4 Aug 2008 09:14

Draftfcb South Africa Group claims second overall spot in Loeries tally - Draftfcb (South Africa)
A strong creative performance by Draftfcb Johannesburg and Joe Public this past weekend (July 29) in Margate has Draftfcb South Africa ranked second - as a group - on the points table for The Loerie Awards 2008. 1 Aug 2008 20:13

Keith Rose of Velocity wins Grand Prix for Allan Gray 'Beautiful' - Velocity Films
This year's Loeries judges awarded the TV Grand Prix to the craftsmanship and masterful storytelling of Allan Gray 'Beautiful'. The commercial was conceptualised by agency King James and directed by Keith Rose of Velocity. 1 Aug 2008 16:26

Loeries Grands Prix for youth market campaigns
[Tshepiso Seopa] Whose mother wouldn't be proud if her creative child brought home a highly treasured bird, the Loerie Grand Prix award, after a weekend in Margate, KwaZulu-Natal? It's been almost a week since the excitement of the Loeries festival weekend and today we find out more about the concepts that won the judges' hearts, featuring Trigger Communications and the duo of Net#work BBDO and Gloo Digital Design. 1 Aug 2008 09:00

Seen beside the Velocity poolside - Velocity Films
The Velocity party by the pool was its usual rockin' self. Sweat.x got those feet tapping and all those folks going down brown whilst the girls in tight lycra introduced everyone to Jose and the boys in gold shorts and painted toenails shook their well formed booties. 31 Jul 2008 17:01

Airport threatens Loeries from roosting in Margate
[Suren Naidoo] Margate wants the Loeries Awards extravaganza to roost in the town, but KwaZulu-Natal's new international airport at La Mercy, north of Durban, could see the South Coast hot spot losing the big event in 2010. That's because when the new airport opens in 2010, it will take more than two hours for Loerie Award delegates - more than 80% from Johannesburg and Cape Town - to drive from the new airport to Margate. 31 Jul 2008 11:16

FoxP2 finish fourth on overall Loeries winners' list - FoxP2
[Jennifer Vivier] FoxP2 left Margate over the moon and under the weather in the early hours of Monday morning, 28 July 2008, with the joint highest number of golds won and in fourth position in the overall Loeries ranking, with 2250 points - just a hundred points short of creative powerhouse Net#work and ahead of agency giant Jupiter. 30 Jul 2008 16:51

Frieze Films features at The Loeries - Frieze Films
Frieze Films directors Tony Baggott and Steve Tanchel projects picked up Loerie Awards this weekend: Baggott notched up two bronzes, one each for Audi and KFC 'Love Notes'; while Tanchel won a bronze for Soweto Rugby Club. His MTN 'Snapshots' commercial, which he directed for Metropolitan Republic, picked up a gold editing craft. 30 Jul 2008 15:08

Joe Public brings home 12 Loeries - Joe Public
Advertising agency Joe Public has great reason to celebrate. Over the past 12 months, the agency has worked hard to meet strategic and creative goals, culminating in 12 Loerie Awards and as a result of the newly implemented Creative Circle Creativity Points system, Joe Public has received an overall fifth place ranking at the 2008 Loerie Awards in Margate. 30 Jul 2008 13:36

The Loerie Awards: Advertising people get plastered - juju
This year's Loeries weekend was the biggest yet and there are already many impressive behind-the-scenes statistics. For example, there were more drunk people covered in juju stickers on Saturday night than at any previous point in the history of alcohol, juju stickers and Margate. 30 Jul 2008 11:54