Client Success Stories
Your success is our success. We've helped clients solve their problems, over and over again. Here are some of our recent client success stories and testimonials.
Turning Customer Stories Into New Business
South Africa's First Live Shopping Beauty Week
A Skincare Brand Built to Own Its Name
Bringing 125 Years of Heritage Online
Making Futurists Look the Part
South Africa's First Live Shopping Beauty Week
Bash wanted to bring live shopping to South Africa before anybody local had properly tried it. We helped shape the concept, built the set around the demands of vertical video, and ran the full production of Bash Beauty Week through to live broadcast.
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Building an Engaging Quarterly Community Event
Every quarter, Barrow Properties fill the Oxford & Glenhove precinct with art. We replaced email-and-spreadsheet artist submissions with an online application form that fed the whole team accurate details, and marketed the event across the precinct to grow the crowd it draws.
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Turning Customer Stories Into New Business
Sage is one of our longest-standing partners. The Spotlight programme has grown into a large library of B2B customer testimonial films that now shape Sage's marketing strategy, run through their sales channels, and give their whole team the confidence to communicate with prospects.
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Slide Decks That Win the Room
Sage's senior leaders Gerhard Hartman and Jordaan Burger needed speeches in their own voice and fully custom, on-brand slide decks for the Finance Indaba. We wrote and designed both from scratch, in three weeks from final briefing to handover.
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A Standout Ad for Sage's Busiest Season
Tax year end is the noisiest moment in Sage's calendar. We made one advert to cut through it, fast: scripted and heavily pre-produced, then shot in a single half-day with a real Sage customer performing on camera and on voiceover.
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Turning Dull Topics Into Real Leads
Tax and payroll are not subjects that anybody downloads for fun. We planned Sage's lead magnets six months at a time so that each ebook fed into the next, turning the least exciting parts of running a business into something worth an email address for.
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Two Financial Brands, One Clear Voice
Orca Risk and Orca Finance were sister brands serving similar clients, so their leadership merged them into one firm: Orca Group. We ran a full-day workshop with both teams, then built the unified messaging, the identity and a Framer website they run themselves.
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Building the Loyalty Behind an Acquisition
Drovers wanted newsletters their customers would actually look forward to. We built fun, pun-led content tailored to one pet-parent avatar, adapting their brand messaging for the inbox. It drove high click-through rates and real loyalty, loyalty that mattered when Drovers was acquired.
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Selling a Coastal Estate Before It Was Built
Barrow Group were entering Plettenberg Bay with a development that did not physically exist yet. We built the Webflow site and the social channels together, so that the sales team had somewhere to send interested people from the first day of the launch.
Read moreBringing 125 Years of Heritage Online
Barrow Group have adapted for 125 years, and after Covid that meant going properly digital. We rebuilt their Webflow site with dedicated room for both Properties and Construction, then built their social channels from nothing. Two years on, we still run them.
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Ready for the Summer Rush From Day One
Robbergbay opened its doors in November 2024, into a Plettenberg Bay market where Market Square already had years of local loyalty behind it. We built a Webflow site that the on-site team update themselves, live in time for the Garden Route summer season.
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Making a Health Brand Sound Human
Ajuda had a health-tech mission that sounded like a brochure every single time they tried to write it down. We left the big cameras at home, filmed twenty brand videos on mobile, and built a social presence that sounds like a person rather than a datasheet.
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A Vet Brand Pet Parents Connect With
Drovers came to ThinkStory for a website and left with a brand messaging strategy that reframed pet owners as pet parents, built hand in hand with their CEO. We rebuilt the site around that language, and the new positioning later proved instrumental when Drovers was acquired.
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Making Futurists Look the Part
TomorrowToday Global advise businesses worldwide on what is coming next, and over a long partnership we kept them looking the part. We refreshed the brand, rebuilt their website, and created the video and photo content that carried across their channels, courses and client communication.
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A Studio That Became a Platform
Gabs and Mel had built a wellness community that could only ever reach the people who could physically get there. We rebuilt the brand, built a subscription platform on Shopify, and set up the production line that keeps a new class going out every week.
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The Message That Earned Student Trust
ADOWA needed students to trust them quickly, in a market where every single provider claims more or less the same things. We built the messaging framework that gave them a clear position to work from, and everything published since has been built on it.
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Leasing Office Suites Without a Viewing
Barrow needed prospective tenants to walk through their Rosebank and Waverley office suites without ever leaving their desks. We filmed walkthroughs that agents have now used for over five years, then covered the rooftop mixer entirely on mobile phones.
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Filling a Residence Before the Deadline
ADOWA had a brand-new residence to fill and a hard intake deadline. We ran a paid media campaign across Meta to reach students at scale and drive applications, supplemented by the meme pages inside the student communities. The first residence filled, ahead of the intake.
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One Site for Investors, One for Students
ADOWA were asking a single website to impress property investors and help students find a room to live in. We split it in two, built the student platform to load on a weak connection, and added a multilingual FAQ that answers before anyone has to ask.
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Selling a Building Through the Man Who Built It
Barrow Construction needed to fill The Crescent in Bryanston. Instead of filming the building itself, we filmed Mike Makhudu, their Contracts Director, telling the story of how he first got started in the industry and what he wanted the place to become.
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Turning an EP Into a Film Worth Watching
Daniel Basckin wanted his new EP seen, not just heard. Backed by the National Arts Council and the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, we filmed it as a multi-camera studio session at the SABC studios in Johannesburg, made to be watched long after the recording.
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A Skincare Brand Built to Own Its Name
Eliqsur's founder had a product ready to launch and a name too crowded to own. We renamed the brand so they could secure the trademarks and domains, then built the full identity, textured packaging, website and launch content, right down to the pitch decks that took it to market.
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Onboarding Students Without Repeating Yourself
ADOWA staff were repeating the same move-in instructions over and over again, every single intake. We filmed induction videos at Ellis Park in Johannesburg and Frederick Street in Pretoria, using the students who actually live there rather than actors.
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Turning a Museum Into a Venue People Book
Zeitz MOCAA needed prospective clients to feel their event spaces rather than read about them. We filmed an orchestra playing Vivaldi in the atrium, photographed full menus during live service, and built the events team a content library they still use.
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A Full Magazine Feature in One Day
Women's Health wanted their own editors in the 2019 winter challenge feature, each of them trying out a sport outside their usual routine. We photographed the entire team across Cape Town in a single day, most of them used to being behind the camera.
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