OppiKoppi began as a small rock-and-roll getogether in the middle of the South African bushveld. It expanded to host its own festival by the same name, and finally, spilled out over the live music network of southern Africa. Oppikoppi is now a fully-fledged events company, with a very active booking and touring agency, sponsorship management divisions and a recently initiated below-the-line advertising agency: all predominately focused on the live music scene. These activities keep the company busy throughout the year all over South Africa and the world, with a host of its own annual events, combined with several other once-off events and tours. OppiKoppi has divisions looking at areas such as: events management; festival network; sponsorship management; artist booking agency; below-the-line agency; media management; sampling exercises; animation; TV; and DVD. The events management team"s past clients include the Aardklop stadium; Levis; Oppikoppi; and Old Mutual Encounters. Oppikoppi is currently involved in festivals such as Aardklop; Tassenberg Legends Live Tour; Innibos; 60s Party; Old Mutual Encounters Concerts; Deuriemikke; Thabazimbi Game and Tourism Expo; Grahamstown; a 10-stop nationwide campus RAG tour (Campus Tour Invasion); Mamelodi Jazz events; and much more. This has allowed the company to establish a strong network of annual events, forming ideal target markets for volume drives, BTL initiatives or other schemes where a large audience needs to be reached. Its artist booking agency is one of the busiest in South Africa, and has recently expanded to include street/informal entertainment bookings for shows (i.e. clowns, fire dancers, traditional dancers and other non-musical entertainment). Oppikoppi"s below-the-line agency has designed unique campaigns for clients such as Nestle; White Horse; Jose Cuervo; Levis; Windhoek; and Old Mutual. Its media management division actively designs, plans and executes formal media campaigns for clients.
It has also carried out several successful sampling campaigns for clients such as Ricoffy; Nescafe; and Cremora through a national student campaign, and also managed the student leg of the new Archers Aqua Less Sugar launch from the conception to the actual sampling. Recently, the company added a new division called KoppiTV, which enables it to create advertisements, television programmes and almost any form of audio visual work required. Aside from making adverts, the division produced more than 13 episodes of broadcast television in 2006 alone. Oppikoppi"s website, www.oppikoppi.co.za, includes upcoming events, album reviews, the monthly newsletter, "buzz", a band noticeboard, posts, band submissions, and a band wish list. One also has the option to subscribe to Oppikoppi"s daily email, directly to its RSS feed or to the monthly electronic newsletter. For more information, email [email protected].