After leading Tourism New Zealand through a decade of success and helping to develop the 100% Pure New Zealand tourism campaign, chief executive George Hickton put in his last day at the coalface today.
Monthly Archives: November, 2009
Everyone loves free stuff. Especially women, it seems, as a new campaign that tests what lengths the ladies will go to to get their hands on some of the world’s most coveted items has shown.
Campaign Brief are reporting that Nick Garrett, BMF Sydney’s group account director, will be taking over from Brent Smart as managing director at Colenso.
This week from the Consumer Counsel: It’s not easy being green. Tough economic times have led to reduced environmental spending. But the greenest consumers are showing little change in their commitment to the environment. They’re just replacing idealism with hard-boiled pragmatism and modifying their own behaviour rather than buying green products that many believe are overpriced.
Ryan Mudie has been appointed as group account manager for nzherald.co.nz and will join the team on 7 December.
This week from the Media Counsel: The ‘Sky Online’ service was switched off back in August. But look what’s happening now.
So mediocre were the entries for the November newspaper ad of the month that the judges decided not to pick a winner. They didn’t even hand out any merit certificates.
Last week, Matt Blomfield, Hell Pizza comms manager and co-owner of Pitch Televsion, told StopPress a new reality TV show that pitted young advertising creatives against each other in a series of pitching battles had been commissioned by TVNZ and would screen on Saturday nights at 7.30pm starting in May.
Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has been announced as a finalist in the public sector category of 2009’s UK Chartered Institute of Marketing Marketing Excellence awards, the only New Zealand organisation to be recognised.
Who it’s for: Silver Fern Farms
Why we like it: Good Kiwi man ‘o the land takes back what’s rightfully ours from a bunch of Euro aristocrats. More patriotic post-colonial New Zealand humour from the stubbie-loving Colenso crew.
Throwing the design of the Metro cover over to a bunch of ad creatives has lead to a “scratchable” magazine cover and an award for Samantha Holmes of Hamilton agency Brandish.
Next year is the 30th anniversary of the Axis awards and TBWA/Whybin’s Andy Blood and Dave Walden, as well as Rick Osbourne, CEO of CAANZ, are making sure it’ll be a right royal nostalgic hooley.The call for entries goes out on 1 December (entries close …
Mad Men ticks all the fictional advertising boxes on TV. And now Pitch, a new TV show that’s just been commissioned by TVNZ will focus on the ‘reality’.
In this week’s edition of eBuzz from the Media Counsel: The NZ Herald Online adds shopping to its portfolio. But how exclusive are its offerings?
A DIY envelope made of steel and copper by independent entrant Barak Yahav has taken home the Best In Show prize at this year’s Art of The Envelope awards.
As my mother always said, whether you’re engaging in shemale love, being attacked by a shark, suffering from horrible sunburn or lying under a car close to death, there’s always someone worse off than you.
We don’t mute the ads. Or fast forward through the ads. We record the ads. At six.
Naked has hired Simon Bird as one of the key personnel in its New Zealand operation. Management duties will be shared by Bird and Matt O’Sullivan, who left Carat after just nine weeks a few months back to set up the New Zealand arm of the international media agency.
The StopPress towers have been inundated with new bottles of stuff recently. Which got us to thinking: what is New Zealand’s best looking bottle? Or New Zealand’s best looking label?
The renovations are almost complete and MagMag says the launch of its new consumer magazine subscription website this week will open up a new era in magazine subscription marketing.
The 2009 finalists for the Art of the Envelope awards have been announced and a panel headed up by TBWA\Whybin’s Andy Blood will announce the winners on Thursday night.
L’Oréal New Zealand and ZenithOptimedia are set to part ways after three years together.
Tanning kits, kettles and wine have now joined political scandals, gruesome homicides and pictures of crocodiles being attacked by hippos on nzherald.co.nz after its new shopping section was released this week. And it’s just in time for Chrissy!
For those who missed out, here’s your chance to feast your eyes on all the results from the year’s biggest event in marketing.
Photo: gotcha.co.nz
Hell Pizza love a bit of advertising-related controversy. And it created some more after releasing a couple of mobile billboards headlined ‘greed’ that featured head and shoulders photos of the founders of Hanover Finance, Mark Hotchin and Eric Watson.
Who for: SkyTV
Why we like it: ‘Lomu, aww, aww, aww, awww.’ A bravura performance in the dentist’s chair. And the armchair. DDB go to the happy place.
Allan Scott Family winemakers have come to the Christmas party and are generously giving away a few bottles of sweet, sweet Marlborough nectar to two lucky StopPress readers.
Fairfax Media Networks is going to war with its new trade marketing campaign Arm Yourself, which will be launched later this week.
MediaWorks NZ CEO Brent Impey will be stepping down from the role at the end of this year after nearly 10 years in the hot seat.