Today, 5 September, marks another anniversary for Kakic Universe.
This year, we celebrate nine years of building, creating, growing and helping brands communicate, connect and do more.
Every anniversary gives us an opportunity to celebrate, but more importantly, it gives us an opportunity to look back at the journey: the projects we have completed, the brands we have helped grow, the milestones we have reached, the lessons we have learned and the kind of company Kakic Universe is becoming.
This year in particular has been one of significant growth and expansion.
Kakic started with a strong foundation in creativity, animation and storytelling. Over time, our work expanded into digital marketing, content production, photography and videography, websites, advertising, strategy and increasingly, digital systems and technology.
Today, we are becoming something broader:
A creative, digital and business growth partner for the organisations we work with.
And 2026 has been an important year in that journey.
One of the biggest changes we have seen this year has been the depth of our involvement with our clients.
Our work is no longer simply about asking:
What should we post today?
Increasingly, the conversations are bigger:
How can this business attract more customers?
How can we create new commercial opportunities?
How can its website, social media, advertising, physical spaces and customer experience work together?
How can technology make its operations better?
How can creative work translate into measurable business results?
That shift has shaped much of our work in 2026.
One of the proudest moments of the year came when Kakic Universe received the Excellence in Digital Media and Visual Storytelling Award at the 2026 National Excellence Hall of Fame Awards.
The recognition was particularly meaningful because Digital Media and Visual Storytelling describes a large part of what Kakic has spent the last nine years building.
It represents work across animation, photography, videography, digital marketing, content, campaigns, creative advertising and the many ways we have helped organisations tell their stories.
More than recognition for a single project, the award represented years of work, growth and consistency.
It became another important milestone in the Kakic Universe story.
Our relationship with Joina City remains one of the clearest examples of how our work has evolved.
What began primarily as digital marketing has expanded into website development, tenant promotion, content production, campaigns, event coverage, advertising, business development support and broader marketing strategy.
The growth of Joina City’s digital community over the years has been significant, but the relationship now extends far beyond social media numbers.
And in 2026, that relationship entered another major chapter.
On 1 January 2026, Joina City officially launched its new LED advertising infrastructure.
The development introduced three major digital advertising assets to Harare’s CBD:
The 360-degree Crown Screen positioned at the top of Joina City.
The large Plaza Screen at the building’s main entrance.
And the 3D Corner Screen positioned at the intersection of Julius Nyerere Way and Jason Moyo Avenue.
For Kakic Universe, the launch created an entirely new area of opportunity.
Our involvement has grown beyond marketing Joina City itself into helping market the advertising platforms, developing campaigns around the screens, approaching potential advertisers and creating content specifically designed for large-format digital advertising.
The screens have also allowed us to connect one of Kakic’s oldest capabilities with one of its newest commercial opportunities.
Animation.
Animation has been part of the Kakic Universe story from the beginning.
In 2026, that experience took on a new form through the development of 3D anamorphic advertising content.
Unlike ordinary screen advertising, anamorphic content is created around the dimensions, perspective and physical viewing position of a particular LED screen to create the illusion that objects extend beyond the screen itself.
The introduction of Joina City’s 3D screen gave us an opportunity to combine animation, motion design, visual effects, advertising and physical media in a completely new way.
This year, Kakic formally expanded its services into 3D anamorphic advertising, creating another connection between where the company started and where it is going.
It is a particularly meaningful development for us.
Nine years ago, animation was one of the foundations on which Kakic was built.
Today, that same capability is being applied to some of the most modern outdoor advertising infrastructure in Zimbabwe.
Our work with Westgate Cinemas has also continued to grow.
Beyond regular cinema marketing, our involvement now includes event promotion, advertising partnerships, cinema hire, business development, sponsorship opportunities and the creation of new commercial opportunities around the cinema.
One of the standout moments of 2026 was the campaign around Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
The objective was not simply to advertise the movie.
The campaign was built around anticipation, urgency, partnerships and turning the premiere into an event.
VIP tickets sold out.
General tickets followed.
Demand eventually resulted in all four cinema halls being allocated to the movie, with screenings continuing at capacity in the days that followed.
Projects such as this have reinforced something we increasingly believe:
Marketing should not exist separately from the business.
Creative work, partnerships, events, advertising and sales work best when they form part of one connected strategy
Another major area of progress in 2026 has been technology.
Over the years, Kakic’s website work has moved far beyond simply creating pages on the internet.
We have increasingly been involved in building directories, booking platforms, customer-management systems, automation tools and digital infrastructure designed around how a business actually operates.
This year, that direction became even more important.
One of Kakic Universe’s most significant technology milestones has been the development of Invozim in partnership with CN Technologies
Built specifically around the realities of Zimbabwean businesses, Invozim provides tools for invoicing, quotations, receipts, customer management, expenses, products, reporting, payments and other everyday business processes.
For Kakic, Invozim represents an important evolution.
For years, we have helped businesses market themselves online.
Now, we are increasingly building the technology that helps those businesses operate.
It is a significant step in the growth of Kakic Universe from a creative and digital services company into a business capable of developing its own digital products.
While much of Kakic Universe’s growth over the years has been commercial, one part of the company has always remained particularly important to us:
Our original creative work.
Animation and storytelling were at the heart of Kakic Universe when we started, and over the years that side of the company has produced projects such as Panze, Poetry Showdown, Journey of the Forsaken, Sibo the Civil Engineer and several animated collaborations with artists, comedians and storytellers.
That creative side of Kakic Universe now has a permanent home.
One of our most important milestones has been the completion of Studio Kakic.
For several years, Studio Kakic existed as a vision for what we wanted the original-production side of Kakic Universe to become.
Today, that vision has become a physical creative space.
The completion of the studio gives us a dedicated environment for photography, video production, interviews, podcasts, creative productions, set-based content and the development of Kakic’s own original projects.
For us, however, Studio Kakic represents more than having another place to work.
It represents infrastructure.
Over the past nine years, we have spent considerable time building our creative abilities, developing our team, producing original work and growing the commercial side of Kakic Universe.
The studio gives us a stronger foundation from which to bring all of those capabilities together.
It also gives Kakic Universe something we have wanted for a long time: a dedicated space where ideas can move from concept to production under one roof.
As Kakic Business has grown, client work has naturally occupied a significant part of our attention.
Studio Kakic gives us the opportunity to continue growing commercially while also placing renewed focus on something that has been part of our identity from the beginning:
Creating our own stories.
Studio Kakic is the creative division of Kakic Universe focused on original productions, visual storytelling and the development of creative worlds and experiences.
The objective is not to move away from the commercial work that has helped Kakic grow.
It is to strengthen both sides of the Universe.
Kakic Business continues working with brands, organisations and institutions.
Studio Kakic gives our storytellers, animators, filmmakers and creatives a dedicated platform through which we can develop work of our own.
And now that the studio itself is complete, the next phase is about filling it with productions.
We already have a number of projects planned for Studio Kakic.
Some will build on the forms of storytelling that Kakic audiences already know us for.
Others will introduce new formats, new stories and a broader approach to original production.
Across animation, film, visual storytelling and studio-based productions, our goal is to begin developing a stronger and more consistent catalogue of original Kakic Universe content.
We will be revealing those projects individually as they move closer to production and release.
What we can say today is that Studio Kakic is no longer simply an idea for the future.
The space is here.
The foundation has been built.
And the next stories are already on the way.
For a company that began nine years ago with a love for animation and storytelling, there could hardly be a more fitting way to enter the next chapter.
Nine years ago, Kakic Universe began with ideas, ambition and a belief that creativity could become something bigger.
Today, we look back at a journey that has taken us through animation, digital media, major campaigns, long-term client partnerships, technology, outdoor advertising, original productions and now a completed Studio Kakic ready for the next chapter.
The company has changed significantly over those nine years.
The vision has grown.
The responsibilities have grown.
The scale of the work has grown.
But the core has remained the same: create meaningful work, keep raising the standard and build something that lasts.
There is a great deal we are proud of, but there is still so much more we want to do.
More stories to tell.
More businesses to help grow.
More campaigns to build.
More ideas to bring to life.
More original productions to create.
And more milestones that, today, may still feel out of reach.
To every client who trusted us before we had the portfolio we have today, every partner who opened a door, every collaborator who added their talent to ours, every team member who helped carry the vision forward and every person who has supported Kakic Universe along the way:
Thank you.
Every project, every opportunity and every challenge has helped shape the company we are celebrating today.
As we mark our ninth birthday, we are grateful for how far we have come, proud of what we have built and confident about where we are going.
The first nine years built the foundation.
Now, we build what comes next.
Celebrating our 9th Anniversary, Kakic Universe.
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