After ACP was purchased by Bauer last year, many have been waiting to see what ze Germans would do—and what its digital strategy would be. And, following on from the launch of Metro Eats and Metro Arts, the next cab off the digital rank is cleo.co.nz.
One of the world’s most enduring and successful agency-client partnerships has come to an end in this part of the globe, with Volkswagen saying goodbye to DDB after 11 years and, in another slightly surprising decision to follow up from last month’s 2degrees pitch, choosing Colenso BBDO as its agency.
Humans seem to have an innate fascination with slo-mo, as evidenced by the eight million or so clips on YouTube. And, judging by the photo booth tomfoolery at various awards evenings, they’re also quite narcissistic, so Dunedin-based design and production shop Motion Sickness Studio has combined those two things and set its slo-mo station loose on the nation.
Z Energy’s follow-up road trip, F&P’s canine lament and a product destruction demonstration for Yours clock up some points.
Ecostore founder Malcolm Rands recently released Ecoman, the story of his and his family’s journey ‘from a garage in Northland to a pioneering global brand’. And he’s doing a bit more pioneering to promote it—and educate more Kiwis about the nasty chemicals some of its competitors use—this time with the company’s first-ever end-of-aisle promotion in the two major supermarket chains. Plus: some glamour shots from the Ecoman book launch.
In an effort to increase the numbers attending the ASB Classic and Heineken Open, Auckland Tennis has created a new umbrella brand called the New Zealand Festival of Tennis, changed its ticketing options and upped its game in terms of food and beverage.
Small Auckland-based publisher and design studio Threaded Media has been showcasing New Zealand’s and the world’s best designers and creatives since 2004 via its “collaborative design publication” Threaded. And now, after a two-year investigation/evolution into expanding the digital division, it’s launched a new iPad app that brings some of its aesthetically-pleasing content to life.
iSite recently launched its new highly targeted outdoor media planning service. And in an effort to show it off to media agencies and marketing professionals, its new agency The Business took a very literal approach to the concept of shooting an ad.
A few weeks back NZTA and Clemenger BBDO launched the second phase of its drug driving campaign, ‘Shopkeepers’, which used humour to create awareness around the fact that having a toke before getting behind the wheel wasn’t safe, despite beliefs to the contrary. And, just as it did with Legend, it’s followed that up with an ad/short film aimed at the Maori community that shows how children view the behaviour of their blazed parents.
Columbus Coffee kicked off in 1995 and it’s grown considerably since then, with 54 stores now dotted around the country. But after an 18 month project to breathe some new life into the brand, the chain is celebrating a new look, a new menu, new fit outs, new products and a host of new partnerships.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
Humans are simple creatures. We love free things. We love tiny things. We love to collect things. So, put them all together, as New World and its retail agency .99 have done for the Little Shop Collectables campaign, and watch the minds get blown.
After departing Eleven PR a few months back and passing the TBWA\ baton to Lauren Vosper, Kelly Bennett has officially launched his new PR consultancy One Plus One Communications and is looking to fill the gap he believes exists “between some of the more well-established, traditional corporate PR agencies and others, which are often housed within advertising agencies or media companies, that offer consumer and activation services”.
The news that Volkswagen was reviewing its relationship with DDB was a surprise to many given the brand’s performance in recent years, and BMW, which managed to reclaim the top spot in the premium stakes from Audi with DraftFCB in the passenger seat, is following suit.
BNZ, New World, Telecom and Peugeot get a ticker tape parade this week.
Spanning over six generations and almost twice as many brewers, the Duncan family have been brewing Founders in Nelson for almost 160 years. But the company is thinking a bit bigger than boutique and its newly refreshed range of craft beers are now available around the nation.
It certainly hasn’t been the best of times for Fonterra over the past few weeks, but it can put a small tick in the plus column after the ad to promote its Milk for Schools programme was named the winner of the June round of Colmar Brunton’s Ad Impact Award.
We live in an increasingly cashless world, with EFTPOS, online banking and various mobile apps making money more of a number on a screen than a wad of notes in your pocket. But for its follow up to the big tease that was BNZ’s ‘Be Good With Money’, the bank and its agency Colenso BBDO have decided to focus on the story—and the power—of a dollar.
The ‘Every Day a New World’ brand campaign earned plenty of fans when it was launched last year (even some from Australia). And New World and Colenso BBDO have followed that up with a series of four ads that aim to, as Foodstuffs’ group brand director Jules Lloyd says, “showcase the craft, expertise and quality of food across our fresh departments, highlight our key points of difference and shift some customer perceptions”.
Direct mail is undergoing something of a renaissance at the moment and was up 16 percent to $58 million in the latest ASA ad spend stats. And Orangebox, which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary, is happily riding that wave.
How do you showcase the power of a car without reverting to shots of driving on winding mountain roads? If you’re Ford and JWT, you create a very hot, limited edition chilli sauce and place the bottles in trendy Mexican restaurants, burger joints where car clubs meet up on cruise nights and food carts at motorsport tracks. PLUS: JWT celebrates its bumpat from Ford global.
When AIG announced its five-and-a-half year sponsorship deal with the NZRU and plonked its logo in the middle of the esteemed black jersey, some naysayers decried the game’s descent into commercialism, while those involved in the deal celebrated the massive boost it would give the game in this country. As is almost always the case, no-one really seems to care anymore. The logo is just … there. And now that the dust has settled on the unveiling of the jersey, AIG has launched its first major rugby-related campaign, ‘It’s Our Job’.
A plethora of good stuff to choose from this week, so we took the NCEA approach and gave everyone an achieved.
After waiting for the dust to settle following the Christchurch earthquake, NZI has launched a big animated campaign that tells the story of the ‘devil’s chair’—and aims to show that the company will be there to help New Zealand businesses when the unexpected inevitably happens.
TBWA\ got a big slap in the face a few weeks back when it lost the 2degrees business to Special Group. But, in what chief executive Todd McLeay says is “some consolation”, it has picked up the TradeMe business.
While most of the focus around road safety in New Zealand has been on alcohol in recent years, drug driving is also a serious issue. It’s not really a laughing matter, but, perhaps following on from the success of ‘Ghost Chips’, NZTA and Clemenger Group have once again gone down the humorous road to show Kiwis that if you’re laughing at soap, taking too long to buy 12 frosty pigs or staring at a waving cat then you shouldn’t be driving.
Soon after brother and sister pair Libby and Ben Crawford won the first instalment of The Block NZ, they opened their own eponymous creative agency, Libby & Ben. So how’s that working out for them?
Not long after one seemingly solid agency-client partnership came to an end when 2degrees shifted from TBWA\ to Special, another seemingly solid agency-client partnership is also up in the air, with Volkswagen putting its business up for pitch. Plus: Hyundai’s recent move.
