Gameplan Media delivers exceptional results based on our ability to deliver and manage across a wide variety of platforms, working on the clients traditional PR and Media output, website, social media, SMS, eNewsletter, and event management, graphic design and activation elements, delivering a consistent message to the targeted audience.
Public Relations
Gameplan Media is a full spectrum public relations and media consultancy that provides an innovative approach to corporate and sponsorship PR and Media.
We take time to understand the commercial brands involved, and the passions and needs of the brand or event supporters and consumers. Then by using our in depth understanding of the workings of contemporary newspaper, magazine, radio, television, social media and online platforms we develop a strategy to best service these organisations with relevant client information.
In an effort to cut free of the media clutter we strive to be innovative, and create and manage unique media-friendly events that support the client brands.
Our media contact strategy is technology driven, and generally based around our “push-pull” strategy pivoting on our website as a source of dependable copy, photographs, audio reports and information.
We provide a full spectrum service to our clients by managing their traditional PR and media, together with website design and content management, graphic design and photographic services, as well as event contact services.
Event Media
The agency provides a high quality event news service that provides copy, photographs and video material, syndicated to all targeted media. This involves our “push-pull” media strategy, and utilizes email and the Gameplan Media website portal.
Full results, copy, and a wide selection of photographs are made available to meet all news deadlines.
In addition we provide a skilled radio service that can deliver live voice reports and packaged wrap radio reports from the event venue, at no cost to the broadcaster.
We also cater for television crews, assisting them with their coverage of the event, as well as post event liaison, script-writing and voice-overs, while Dave Macleod as a seasoned radio and television presenter can provide voice over and stand-upper presentation services.
Recent Clients:
ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships Camps Drift
UCI MTB XCO and Marathon World Championships Pietermaritzburg
UCI BMX World Championships
Hollywoodbets Dolphins
FNB Dusi Canoe Marathon, Non Stop Dusi Canoe Marathon
Sappi Karkloof Classic
aQuellé Tour Durban
Vodacom Durban July
Olympic Games (Media officer flatwater and slalom events)
Canoeing South Africa
Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon (Event media management)
Berg River Canoe Marathon
International Canoe Federation (World Championships media service)
Website Design & Management
Every business, brand or event must have a profile on the worldwide web that reflects their core operation, their corporate character, and ideally facilitates doing business faster and more efficiently.
Getting a creative website up and running needn’t cost you an arm and a leg. We specialise in designing websites, from conceptual graphic design and “look-and-feel” to the registration and uploading of the websites.
We also feel passionately that a website is only as good as its last update, and we offer a full-time website administration service to ensure that websites.
Newsletters are a great way to drive visitors to your website, and we can offer a personalised individual email newsletter solution.
While we strongly subscribe to a basic ethos of keeping websites simple, and easy and fast to download, we can easily include active elements such as polls, forums, galleries, video and audio playout on our websites.
All of our websites can be used to provide a large number of email addresses that take the same identity as the website, providing a flexible, easily manageable and professional option for corporate email address.
eNewsletters
Gameplan Media can provide a flexible service of emailed, newsletters sent to a database of any size. These rich HTML eNewsletters are personalised and sent individually, with embedded hyperlinks that drive traffic back to your website, mobisite or social media platforms.
The newsletters conform fully with requirements to offer unsubscribe facilities to every recipient.
Social Media
Now a critical part of the media mix, it is essential that the brand output across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Linked In, YouTube and Vimeo is carefully, creatively and consistently managed. Equally important, dedicated staff members continually monitor these platforms to ensure timeous response to engagement with your audience, and to trouble shoot issues that might arise on these open public platforms.
Event Presentation
We are market leaders in event presentation, where we provide a high quality package of video, audio, music and compere/master-of-ceremonies services, as well as overall eventing origination and production to ensure an appropriate blend of entertainment, information and sponsor exposure.
Dave Macleod provides the matchday presentation services, and brings with him over twenty years experienc
e in on-field presentation and co-ordination.
Recent Clients:
Cricket South Africa (all incoming cricket ODI, T20 and test matches)
The Sharks (all home games)
The Dolphins (All home games)
sani2c (Adventure MC)
Comrades Marathon (start, finish presentation)
World Rugby (World Sevens Series, Stellenbosch, Durban, George, Port Elizabeth, U19 World Cup)
SA Lifesaving (SA Champs)
United Bank (Soccer Festival)
Scripting and Voice Overs
With years of experience in the radio and television industry, Gameplan Media provides a fast, efficient and contemporary service for writing scripts and providing audio voice-overs for television productions, radio features and commercials.
We have a very strong track record is in commercial and sport productions, and watersport and canoeing events in particular.
We have an in house studio facility to provide high quality studio voice recordings, at very cost effective rates.
Scripts and voice overs can be provided quickly and cost effectively by sending videos by YouTube or Vimeo, and the completed recordings can be equally quickly returned as WAV or mp3 files by email of electronic transfer platforms.
We have a number of voice artists on-call to provide voice-overs to handle audio presentations and scripts in a wide variety of styles and deliveries.