Monthly Archives: September, 2010

Awards
Ask a good question, get a great answer
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The New Zealand Marketing Association’s RSVP & Nexus Awards is the only awards programme dedicated to celebrating marketing that demands a reply, stimulates a conversation or prompts some deeper brand involvement that leads to a measurable-response. And marketers, agencies, consultancies and suppliers who have been involved in the development of a project or campaign that demonstrates brilliance in response-driven marketing are asked to prepare their entries so they can be recognised as leading the way in New Zealand marketing.

News
New and improved
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Who’s it for: Vodafone by Colenso BBDO and Flying Fish

Why we like it: Place this firmly in the ‘how’d they do that?’ category. Colenso BBDO and Flying Fish’s Wade Shotter have joined forces to create a TVC that’s intended to start a conversation …

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Goodbye Automatic, hello Waitemata
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They’re the producer and director duo responsible for DairyNZ’s ‘Other Countries’, the NZBlood campaign, Fisher & Paykel’s ‘Lost My Sock’ and L&P ‘Tourism Paeroa’. And after doing the business with Automatic Films, Mike Oldershaw and Johnny Blick have decided to form their own production company called Waitemata Films.

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Walker hits Prime time in Australia
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TVNZ ‘s recently departed head of advertising sales Dave Walker has accepted a role as national sales manager with Prime Media Group in Australia, putting to bed a few rumours that ex-TVNZ and now MediaWorks chief executive Jason Paris had implemented some kind of dastardly scheme to poach the whole TVNZ staff after Walker, Sharon Daly and general manager of marketing Charlotte Findlay all departed in quick succession.

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Just one year out and questions on RWC ‘clean zones’ still to be answered
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DHL announced its sponsorship of the Rugby World Cup today (and to celebrate Grant Fox kicked a rugby ball off the Skytower). And while the rules for the tournament’s official sponsors seem fairly clear, media owners, media buyers and the host of other companies that haven’t forked out but are hoping to jump on the RWC marketing bandwagon are still waiting to find out from the government how the Major Events Management Act (MEMA) could affect marketing activities, particularly when it comes to out-of-home media.

News
Does a bear shoot in the woods?
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YouTube vids are soooo passe. Interactive ‘pick a path’ YouTube vids, like the recent one from Hell Pizza, are all the rage. But this one from Tippex is one of the best efforts we’ve seen. And, as it offers you the opportunity to write something to make a hunter do anything to a bear (well, almost anything: it couldn’t handle lambast, operate on or tackle), it’s way more interactive than most.

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Holt! Who goes there?
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Andrew Holt, currently a group account director at Colenso BBDO, will be shifting south, moving up the executive chain and battling the breeze after being appointed as managing director of Clemenger BBDO in Wellington.

News
One man, one desire, heaps of news
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Pull up an ear as we attempt to make all your marketing dreams come true with news of account wins, new hires, newish agencies, old departures, big rebrands, Taika Waititi, Air New Zealand, wallpaper, beer and giant balls. 

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Beauty and the Best
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The finalists have been announced for the 2010 Best Awards. And, from cool album covers to modern buildings, from striking packaging to branding and identity, it’s a who’s who and what’s what of New Zealand’s design scene.

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DDB drowns in ORCAs after cheeky Stella spot takes August honours
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The Radio Bureau’s August ORCA winners have been announced and DDB has taken its second gong of the year, with Joe Hawkins and Dave Brady, who were were finalists in the 2009 Grande ORCAs for the National Foundation for the Deaf ads, getting the nod for their self-referential Lion Nathan – Stella Artois Légère campaign.

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Fairfax’s display dollars grow, but by how much, nobody knows
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Pfala via Flickr

Stuff.co.nz dominated the digital categories at this year’s Qantas Media Awards and it appears as though the advertisers have responded, with Fairfax Media claiming it has “significantly outperformed the market” in terms of its display advertising revenue, “almost doubling” the 38 percent increase achieved by the market since last quarter. But there are a few Fairfax figures that aren’t quite so forthcoming.

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Terrible pun used as Colenso, DraftFCB and Barnes, Catmur & Friends all bubble with EFFIEvescence
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The EFFIEs aren’t usually seen as the most glamorous or creative of the CAANZ events (as evidenced by the historic victory of Farmer’s Red Dot Specials a few years back). But, in terms of what advertising is actually meant to do, it should really be deemed the most important. And Colenso BBDO, DraftFCB and Barnes, Catmur & Friends have come through the first two rounds of judging as the country’s three most effective agencies for 2010.

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Bank wars: TSB leads, Kiwibank closes the gap and the big five improve
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Despite anecdotal evidence that suggests all banks are sneaky, recent actual research from the June 2010 Roy Morgan New Zealand Banking Customer Satisfaction Survey has revealed positive shifts in the overall satisfaction levels for most of the major banks, with TSB retaining its position at the top of the satisfaction pile, but Kiwibank is on its tail.

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Tourism NZ, Amnesia Razorfish and the ‘digital revolution’
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Speaking at the Inbound Tour Operators’ Council (ITOC) annual conference in Blenheim recently, Doug Chapman, executive director of client services at specialist digital agency Amnesia Razorfish, told delegates marketing was in the midst of a revolution thanks to the internet. And, with a raft of new technologies and hundreds of new social sites to take New Zealand to a travel-hungry world, it is a revolution Tourism New Zealand is well-positioned to take advantage of to reach potential travellers in a cost-effective way.