About Me

I'm Chris Corbet a Garden Route based digital marketing specialist, videographer and photographer.

I'm Chris Corbet

Providing a content creation and digital marketing service, including Google Ads, YouTube advertising, website design & development and social media management, mostly in the tourism, tech and real estate spaces. You won't find me in a city centre office with massive overheads, but it's not a one-man show, working remotely with a network of experts I can handle projects of any size, efficiently and at a lower cost.

I also do property & commercial photography, and create professional quality videos. While I'm based in the Garden Route, South Africa, I'm available to travel all over Southern Africa and internationally.

Background

I've enjoyed a rewarding digital career spanning over 20 years, initially as founder & CEO of Synergize Digital, one of Africa's most respected digital marketing agencies. Acquired by the Publicis Group in 2013, Synergize was merged with Saatchi & Saatchi, becoming the hub of their global digital marketing offering, with offices in London, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Budapest. I served there as a director until 2016.

In 2018 I launched a boutique digital marketing & design consultancy geared towards meeting the demands of the mobile age. These days the focus has shifted towards video marketing, with massive growth in video over the past few years, it's my firm belief that it's the future of online marketing.

Blog & Video Channel

My other love is to explore off the beaten track places, I run a popular adventure blog which you can see here, and a YouTube channel where I share my adventures in video. Please do head on over and tell me what you think: youtube.com/@Kangela.

Trusted Partners

WHY VIDEO?

Whether it’s a cave, a luxury ocean front villa or a high street business, powerful, striking and perfectly exposed and aligned videos or photographs, with the proper lighting, are essential to promote any brand.

72% of potential customers would rather learn about a product or service by way of video.
70% of viewers bought from a brand after seeing it on YouTube
Viewers retain 95% of a message when they see it on video, compared to 10% when reading text.
Including a video on your website's landing page can boost your conversion rate by up to 80%.

Customer Testimonials

I have been working with Chris since 2001 and have always had Excellent service, commitment and his passion has shone my business Shark Bookings to new strengths. Chris was the... read more read less

Dave Caravias

Chris is a great guy to work with and delivers a great service. He has helped us with his expertise and showed us how we can elevate our online... read more read less

Jacques de Kock

Prepaid24 have been dealing with Kangela Digital, over the past 3 months and the personal assistance and advice that we have been receiving from Chris, has been fantastic. I would... read more read less

Ben Lindeque
Chris from Kangela has been a tremendous help in getting our online business off the ground by radically improving usability and driving traffic to the site. He has very... read more read less

Tracy Coughlan

In my professional career I've been doing business with Kangela for many years. My most recent project, White Shark Divers is another site designed, built and marketed by Kangela. Chris... read more read less

Elna Caravias

Our website was old fashioned, not mobile friendly and difficult to use. We asked Chris from Kangela for help and we are glad to say that as a result of... read more read less

Anthony Cloete
Chris‘s bespoke service is of note: it is professional, hands-on, down to earth. I would like to thank Chris for being instrumental in making my business more noticeable and prominent... read more read less

Barbel Blaser-Ritzenthaler

As the owners of AfriCamps I had the pleasure of working with Chris Corbet from Kangela on a series of videos for our camps. He visited and filmed almost all... read more read less

Jeroen van Rootselaar

Kangela Digital Marketing and African Fusion Travel have an excellent working relationship. Chris the owner of the company is a dream to work with. We value his... read more read less

Butterfly Bishop
Kangela lead the digital marketing space and stay ahead of all changes to algorithms etc done so frequently by the likes of Google and apply it to their clients' benefit.... read more read less

Werner Redelinghuys

I love working with Chris, his passion for what he does is infectious! I always get high quality work that surpasses my expectation.

Amanda Ferreira

Helpful and personalised digital marketing company.

Mandy Marais
African Fusion Travel
We've worked with Chris from Kangela for almost 20 years now. He has a wealth of experience in the travel marketing space, I have no hesitation in recommending his company... read more read less

Alex Simon

Very professional, great quality and pleasant!

Trienke Lodewijk

Quality

A perfectionist, I will treat your home or business with utmost respect and deliver the highest quality results.

Experienced

I bring experience gained from a digital career spanning over 20 years in the tourism, tech and real estate spaces.

Customised

Whatever your your needs I'll deliver "out the box" thinking and guaranteed personalised results.

Support

I'm just a phone call, text or email away to ensure total satisfaction & provide a quick response in plain language.

On The Blog

The blog has been mostly about a video and photographic experience, but I'll be throwing in some marketing related and possibly some "how to" posts in the future. Whatever the subject though, your comments are welcome as always.