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Last night, the winners of the 2019 D&AD Awards were announced with local agencies scoring 11 pencils. Among them, it’s Colenso BBDO with the most to celebrate as it claimed four pencils including the only Yellow for New Zealand.
Industry happenings at Kantar New Zealand, Imagic Creative and NZME.
Alina Godfrey is returning to New Zealand after five years overseas to take up the role of group business director, Saatchi & Saatchi has announced.
Sanitarium’s new out-of-home campaign uses bold colours and hands popping out of holes to remind Kiwis about their breakfast cereals.
PHD Group has announced the appointment of Nick Scott as strategic partnerships director, and the promotion of PHD group business director Helen Brown to group investment director.
With an April full of public holidays and potential long weekends, the month was a big and busy month for advertising. But Countdown’s own-brand campaign surpassed the competition to be named the Colmar Brunton Ad Impact Award winner for April.
Following judging by 38 senior public relations and communications practitioners, the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ) has announced 25 finalists for the 2019 awards.
Auckland agency Amplifier has been in the design and marketing game for 17 years. We caught up with director Sean O’Brien on the challenges they’ve overcome in order to stay on top of a rapidly evolving industry.
A round of applause to ANZ, Queenstown Airport Corporation, Genesis and Pet Refuge.
Australian charity product organisation Thankyou has launched its latest Kiwi campaign, combining that fact that 100 percent of its profit goes towards helping end global poverty with its use of perfume-grade botanical oils in its products.
Everything is energy according to a new campaign for Genesis by Shine, that gives the intangible idea of energy a tangible definition.
Queenstown Airport Corporation – which manages both Queenstown and Wanaka Airports – has launched a new brand showcase with Shotover Media called ‘Why Do We Fly?’.
On Friday night, New Zealand’s journalists gathered to celebrate the industry’s best across print and online at the Voyager Media Awards, in a showcase of how journalism has transformed over the years.
It was FCB Media’s night last night at the 2019 Commercial Communications Council Beacon Awards, when the agency took home gold after gold in front of a sell-out crowd of New Zealand’s media personalities.
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To celebrate turning 30, Instant Kiwi has launched a new brand campaign highlighting the unique ways real New Zealanders have played the games in the last three decades.
Aliesha Staples, a pioneer of virtual and augmented reality, has been appointed TVNZ’s inaugural future director.
ANZ is following the supply chain of honey in a new ‘Bee to Bee’ campaign by TBWA, to demonstrate how businesses connect and contribute to each other’s success.
Extra Gum and Colenso BBDO have released a new campaign that utilises a voice assistant-based-conversation tool designed to build confidence.
In October 2018, former FCB managing director Rufus Chuter and former OMD chief digital officer Kris Hadley announced they were launching a new strategy, technology and media management agency, Together. In the time since they’ve focussed on establishing their agency while operating on a simple philosophy: creating a great work environment, to attract great people, to produce great work. Chuter and Hadley fill us in on how they’re running their agency with the future in mind.
Spark has paired with Kiwi documentary maker and journalist David Farrier in its latest campaign, which celebrates Spark’s 5G innovation.
For our next issue of NZ Marketing magazine (on sale in July), we’re getting in on the listicle action by selecting the best of the bunch in the media business. While the editorial team put their heads together to figure out who and what comes out on top, we need avid readers with their fingers on the pulse to vote for their favourite magazine, TV channel, radio station, media companies, visionaries and more. Voting closes 31 May.
Sky has welcomed Steve Bayliss to the role of chief marketing officer.
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Healtheries latest campaign shows how its products can help Kiwis strive and thrive.
New Zealand’s media agency market has had a difficult start to 2019, with total national marketer ad spend falling more than 5 percent from the same quarter last year, as the market remains plagued by a lack of business confidence.
Earlier this year, StopPress gathered the industry for an evening of self-congratulation as we celebrated the work that made 2018 so great, as well as the moments that got lips moving. Winners across the 16 categories were chosen by the editorial team who — along with the application of very sophisticated algorithms, immersive VR experience, AI chatbots — discussed and debated the results. Now, we revisit some of those winners for a behind-the-scenes look at why they are successful.
Following the global merger of J. Walter Thompson and Wunderman, WPP AUNZ has announced the upcoming launch of Wunderman Thompson in New Zealand.
