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Last Friday night at Carriageworks in Sydney, the 37th edition of the Awards Awards saw Y&R NZ walk away with nine gold pencils, as well as the Best in Show and Agency of Year gongs.
Following the $49 million acquisition of iSite Media by QMS, the pair of companies have now completed their integration and will now trade under the name QMS NZ.
For a channel that’s purportedly on its deathbed, it’s been a pretty eventful week for television. We look at a triumvirate of happenings.
Huggies Nappies has partnered with Plunket for a heart warming campaign by Ogilvy to encourage parents to ‘make time for hugs’.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
Barnes, Catmur & Friends Dentsu executive creative director and managing partner Paul Catmur has confirmed to StopPress that his agency has parted ways with Independent Liquor.
Pakistan’s The Daily Times took a stand against censorship with a ‘Free my voice’ campaign, which gave readers a taste of having their words inverted.
Whittaker’s has released a campaign via Assignment Group to promote the newest additions to its artisan range, and it’s brought back its brand mascot Nigella Lawson.
The social media team behind the Waikato Civil Defence account need an honoury medal of some sort. And if a suitable hunk of metal does not exist for them, one should promptly be created. The reason being that these brave folks perform a great public service every day, providing life-saving weather updates.
Fight the monster of a missed deadline and get yourself an extension to enter in the 2016 TVNZ Marketing Awards. Your personalities will thank you for it.
DDB and Special Group waved the Kiwi flag at this year’s edition of the APAC Facebook Awards, winning three virtual gongs between them.
This year, The Warehouse has changed things up a little by throwing a bit of a promotional celebration for its 34th anniversary. And the spot is likely to hit a few mums in the feels.
Squinty eyes, puckered mouths and red faces make up a large part of Moa’s new campaign for its sour beer range, which Moa says people either love or hate.
Last week radio presenters and producers left the comfort of the studio, revealing themselves for the New Zealand Radio Awards, a celebration of all things radio and a competition between MediaWorks and NZME.
Last year, a Kiwi agency picked up the nation’s black pencil at D&AD. And it has been followed up this year with our first black and gold.
ASB is celebrating its sponsorship of the New Zealand Sevens with a little bit of magic by American vine superstar Zach King and Saatchi & Saatchi.
MediaWorks has been on a bit of a hiring mission, adding several new staff to its agency and national direct teams as well as promoting other staff.
Saltwater Brewery, with New York agency We Believers, hopes to save marine animals by removing plastic from its packaging and replacing it with fish food.
Industry happenings at Y&R, Novo, Designworks, Dots and Crosses, NZME, OMSA, Mi9, AppNexus, PRINZ, Photography Films, Eat My Lunch.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
In a world where books are competing for attention with smart devices, FCB New Zealand and Mexico collaborated with National Geographic Learning and turned smartphones into books with the ReadOn app.
Marlborough winery, Wither Hills has launched a multifaceted campaign with DDB, Young & Shand and ZenithOptimedia, designed to inform consumers that Wither Hills is more than a name, it’s a place where wine is “Made beautifully”.
Digital outdoor advertising shells are allowing creatives do more than ever in the space, and with a little Disney magic posters can even come to life.
Speight’s made use of Kiwi’s unfinished projects to win the Colmar Brunton Ad Impact Award for April.
StopPress understands that creatives Freddie Coltart and Matt Williams have resigned from FCB and will be joining Colenso BBDO. During their time at FCB, the pair were involved in a host of award-winning campaigns, which picked up metal on both the local and international awards circuit. However, rather than holding onto these trophies for sentimental reasons, FCB has instead decided to sell them on Trade Me in a bid to raise funds for the pair’s leaving do.
MediaWorks followed up the announcement of the new season of The Block NZ with a campaign launch on Sunday night, drawing attention to the ‘battle of sexes’ premise underpinning this edition of the show.
Sometimes what seems like a brilliant idea, doesn’t always translate how you imagine it will when you put it into force. That’s what Sky and DDB may have discovered with their ‘#CommandTheUnsullied campaign’, which has received a fair amount of backlash. But, as you’ll see if you read on, Twitter fails aren’t exactly few and far between.
Burt’s Bees has released a couple of new spots via Baldwin & Raleigh, which hit you right in the feels. One with a deaf musician and the other with an African American model with albinism.
Short-term loans have joined a list including guns, tobacco and drugs as Google bans its ads from ad systems.
