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Embrace the power of now and win ‘self-help’ beer
Monteith’s new website Worth Talking Over aggregates all the things Kiwis are yakking about online, making it easier for you to figure out what to discuss at the dinner party.
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Aussie Audsley takes up Impey’s TV reins
Ian Audsley, formerly the chief operating officer of the Nine Network in Australia, has been announced as the executive director of television for MediaWorks NZ TV. He will join the board and commence work in January.
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Good Shopping Handbook gets rub of the green
Is all that planet-killing commercial detritus getting you down this Christmas? Of course it is. You need some knowledgeable greenfingers to guide you through the environmental maze. And our sustainable cohorts at Good magazine have just launched the first edition of The Good Shopping Handbook to help you out.
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Kiwi consumers: a retrospective
The Newspaper Advertising Bureau’s ‘The Kiwi Consumer’ retail report for November 2009 shows how much consumer behaviour has changed since 2001 and how it has impacted on the retail and advertising sectors. And it makes for some rather interesting reading.
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Necessity the mum of reinvention for AXIS awards
The 30th anniversary of the AXIS awards next year is sure to be a nostalgic shindig. But it will also be referencing the future.
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Colenso hogs a few more awards
Festive season just got a little bit more festive for the greedy award-hoggers at Colenso BBDO after it added another notch to its recent accolades belt on Friday night and took out the Kiwi agency of the year gong at the B&T agency of the year awards.
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‘Grand Masters’ select 2009 RSVP and Nexus finalists
In a year that’s presented its fair share of challenges, New Zealand marketers have worked determinedly to deliver campaigns that generate solid results. And, from a record number of entries, Marketing’s ‘Grand Masters’ have selected the finalists for the 2009 RSVP and Nexus Awards.
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Plaudits for Kiwi tourism promotions
Carat New Zealand has delivered a digital media first in the New Zealand market by creating a new campaign for Tourism Australia entitled ‘Short Breaks’.
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Ads@6: 26 November – 2 December
The Christmas ads were all-pervasive this week, with plenty of new, mostly terrible albums on the stocking stuffer ad agenda. And Coke’s summer campaign also kicked off. Big, dumb fun in the water, just like the old days. Look how much fun those virile, tanned young things are having splashing their sticky beverages over each other!
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Hit for six
In our semi-non-regular (regular?) hexagonally-themed question and answer section devoted to helping you find out more about some of the Heppest Cats in the Kiwi marcomms industry, we go in for the probe with Nick Fracture.
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‘Avin a Looksy
Auckland film-maker and critic Lewis Bostock is aiming big by thinking small: he’s trying to create the largest collaborative film ever made.
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Insights with Attitude
Our generous friends at Perceptive have developed a website that aims to provide “a growing hub of intelligence for Kiwi marketers”. And they’re offering StopPress readers a chance to get a free taste of the insightful action.
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Colenso whippersnappers ranked third in world
Colenso BBDO’s young creatives have bagged six of the 11 awards handed out to New Zealand agencies at the Young Guns International YGAwards, including the country’s only gold and silver bullets.
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George Hickton 100% done
After leading Tourism New Zealand through a decade of success and helping to develop the 100% Pure New Zealand tourism campaign, chief executive George Hickton put in his last day at the coalface today.
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Colenso fills management hole – maybe
Campaign Brief are reporting that Nick Garrett, BMF Sydney’s group account director, will be taking over from Brent Smart as managing director at Colenso.
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Herald gets Mudie
Ryan Mudie has been appointed as group account manager for nzherald.co.nz and will join the team on 7 December.
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MAGNET attracts more accolades
Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has been announced as a finalist in the public sector category of 2009’s UK Chartered Institute of Marketing Marketing Excellence awards, the only New Zealand organisation to be recognised.
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Brandish scratches Metro’s itch
Throwing the design of the Metro cover over to a bunch of ad creatives has lead to a “scratchable” magazine cover and an award for Samantha Holmes of Hamilton agency Brandish.
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Call goes out for Axis awards
Next year is the 30th anniversary of the Axis awards and TBWA/Whybin’s Andy Blood and Dave Walden, as well as Rick Osbourne, CEO of CAANZ, are making sure it’ll be a right royal nostalgic hooley.The call for entries goes out on 1 December (entries close …
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Indy iron envelope entrant takes the biscuit
A DIY envelope made of steel and copper by independent entrant Barak Yahav has taken home the Best In Show prize at this year’s Art of The Envelope awards.
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MagMag gets set for launch
The renovations are almost complete and MagMag says the launch of its new consumer magazine subscription website this week will open up a new era in magazine subscription marketing.
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L’Oréal throws a pitch out
L’Oréal New Zealand and ZenithOptimedia are set to part ways after three years together.
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Fly Buys delivers well-executed random acts of kindness
Fly Buys celebrated the handing out of five million reward redemptions in fine awkward style at Wellington Airport last week by gathering together an array of gift-bearing strangers, tromboners (!), middle-aged dancers, cartwheelers, humans in animal suits and a range of other carnies to surprise the winners of the …
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Ads @ 6: 12 November – 18 November
Tuesday 17 November was the biggest news night of the week, with ONE chalking up 657,720 viewers and 3 News nabbing 350,070. TVNZ continues to dominate (and gloat). Best of the ad bunch: Circulon kitchenware evokes elderly tattoo cringe, a future scourge that should really be investigated by some kind of taskforce.
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Different companies announce a range of new things
Another day, another massive list of new, exciting things to report.
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Christmas: on the cards. Giving: to those less fortunate
Those festive folk at New Zealand Post’s targeted communications department have launched a new service for businesses and individuals hoping to send a few personalised cards over Christmas.
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BBDO put more trophies in the treehouse
Colenso BBDO/AIM Proximity have a few more trophies to put on the treehouse mantelpiece after it was given some big ups at the Digital Media Awards in Shanghai.
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Iggy gets his act together
Who for: Orcon broadband
Why we like it: Iggy writhes to the online Kiwi cacophony.
And number two:
Who for: Panasonic Lumix
Why we like it: It’s filmed in New Zealand. And it’s a moderately comical way to show the camera’s waterproofery.
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Joanna Seddon, ‘Thought Leader’, to speak at forum
Joanna Seddon, the executive vice president of Millward Brown and global head of Millward Brown Optimor, has been announced as the international keynote speaker for the 2009 Marketing Forum in December.
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Talbot and Blood get creative
Asia Pacific marcomms newspaper Media has announced its agency of the year shortlist and TBWA’s Andy Blood and DDB’s Toby Talbot are in the running for the creative of the year award.