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The Stoppies voting has officially closed and our sophisticated algorithm is now crunching the numbers and determining the editorial and people’s choice victors in each of the categories.
Media Design School has its annual End of Year Portfolio Show tonight – and the invitations have been causing a bit of a stir among creative teams.
Adshel New Zealand has completed the expansion of its Adshel Live digital street furniture after adding 70 additional screens as part of the phase three roll-out.
Spanish creative agency Sra. Rushmore and the International Committee of the Red Cross have come together with ‘Decisions’.
On 10 December, farm gates will be open around the country.
Australian department store Myer is showing there’s nothing like being together at Christmas in a gorgeous animation featuring an Elf on a mission to find new friends.
Raise a glass for Dulux, Rebel Sport, Rodney Wayne, New Zealand Transport Agency and Blunt Umbrellas.
The New Zealand Transport Agency is taking on stoned drivers in a bold new campaign via Clemenger BBDO.
Hair Salon brand Rodney Wayne has launched a new collection of styles, dubbed #devotedtoyou, in a new campaign via brand development agency Lachlan McPherson and Friends.
Who are New Zealand’s biggest spending brands? Nielsen has shared the top 30 spenders on advertising for the last three years and each list appears to be a shuffled version of the one that came before.
KFC has continued to roll out retail goods in time, and specifically for, Christmas. The company’s newest campaign features a bath bomb, a candle and a selection of Christmas ornaments for purchase.
Oxfam New Zealand, Blunt Umbrellas and Kiwi artist Flox have collaborated on a limited-edition ‘Flox for Blunt’ umbrella to help raise interest in, and funds, for Oxfam NZ’s climate change initiatives in the Pacific region.
Outdoor advertising company Adshel NZ has partnered with the Wellington City Council and the Urban Art Foundation in an initiative to enrich the vibrancy of the capital city.
Spark Lab recently pitted social media against traditional advertising in a bid to see which would perform better in launching a product, a drink dubbed Kiwinade, in the local market.
KiwiPlates and Saatchi & Saatchi are encouraging people to express themselves in a campaign called ‘Whatever you’re into. Own it’.
industry happenings at Val Morgan, Reckon, Motion Sickness, The Edge and Fish.
Created for Christie’s, Droga5 worked with photographer Nadav Kander to place a hidden camera beneath the Salvator Mundi (a painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi, Savior of the World) by Leonardo da Vinci.
Nestlé Purina has won the oOhMedia Excite competition, with an idea to match people with a shelter animal.
KPEX chief executive Richard Thompson has announced that AppNexus will become the primary platform partner for the local ad exchange, founded by NZME, Fairfax, TVNZ and MediaWorks. KPEX has, since its inception in 2015, been working with the Rubicon Project, which previously powered the Pangea Alliance (a premium ad exchange consisting of news publications such as The Guardian, Reuters and CCN).
This week New World, Arnott’s, Briscoes and Kiwiplates show us how it’s done.
Canadian agency John St. has decided to bring the world together with a shared hatred of bad ads.
Fairfax Media has appointed Mark Stevens to the role of editorial director.
All the world’s most successful people tend to make their own luck. And through a combination of talent and tenacity, Joan Withers has become very lucky indeed.
Paddington Bear and a surprised burglar star in a delightful Christmas tale for Marks & Spencer.
It’s not Christmas until New World’s heart-warming Noel character makes an appearance, and this year he’s back to confuse more children, and even the police, in a madcap journey by 99.
The Pure Imagination Project uses one of the disease’s most well-known sufferers, Gene Wilder, to appeal for funding.
Arnott’s has rolled out the epic finale of its ‘Apoloclypse Steve Hansen’ campaign that plays out in a bizarre, action-packed short film by Y&R.
The Make New Zealand Great Again Party failed to make its advertising great again after a complaint against a sponsored Facebook post, suggesting the Labour Party was going to solve child poverty with abortion, was upheld.
