News about industry awards.
There was plenty to celebrate last night at the Campaign Agency of the Year 2018 Awards as local agencies took to the stage, with DDB New Zealand and Special Group collecting the most gongs.
The finalists for the 2018 NZDM Awards have been announced and with 18 finalists across 11 unique campaigns, it’s Colenso BBDO leading the way.
Last night, at Sky City’s Bar Twenty-One, New Zealand’s PR, brand experience, events and social media industry professionals celebrated the best campaigns from the last year at the inaugural PREScom Awards.
Last night New Zealand’s TV stars gathered at Auckland’s Civic Theatre to celebrate the best in show at the Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards. TVNZ people and programmes won across 14 categories and MediaWorks won across five.
Next week PR, experiential and social professionals will be gathering with their clients for the inaugural PREScom Awards, and it’s Spark PR & Activate, Copper Brand Experiences and Fuse Leading the finalists.
Auckland’s Shed 10 was taken over by advertising and marketing folk last night, excited to celebrate the country’s most effective marketing campaigns at the 2018 NZ Effie Awards in association with TVNZ.
Insight and analytics agency TRA has won gold at the ESOMAR Research Effectiveness Awards for its segmentation work with Paymark.
Next month, Auckland’s Shed 10 will be taken over by the next generation of female leaders to hear from industry experts, pioneers and game changers at the Femmepire Summit of 2018.
In just a few short years, Rebecca Barnett has managed to make a name for herself at Loyalty New Zealand as a stand-out marketing executive and all-round team player. Working with the Fly Buys Rewards team has seen Barnett go from strength to strength and this Rookie Marketer of the Year is only just getting started.
From a calming, machine-learning led interactive experience at Starship Children’s Hospital, to the story of a goat that acts as anti-bullying initiative and teaches children the effect their actions can have, the best in New Zealand design was crowned at the 2018 Best Awards on the weekend – and a discussion about gender equality in design has been brought to the industry’s attention. Here are the supreme winners, and a statement from the Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ) CEO Cathy Veninga on the protests that took place.
PR, experiential and social media campaigns are set to be recognised with a new annual PREScom Awards, run by The Commercial Communication Council’s PR, Experiential and Social Media Committee (PREScom).
From launching the TAB’s most successful marketing initiative yet to attracting a new generation of customers, head of strategic marketing Simon Jarvis has taken the challenge of refreshing the brand to new heights.
NZME was the most successful New Zealand brand at the News Media Awards in Sydney last week, with News Corp topping the honours taking home the 2018 News Brand of the Year.
The ability to tackle change head-on is a trait most successful people share. And throughout his career, Kevin Bowler has never shied away from a challenge.
Last night, at the Cordis Hotel, the New Zealand marketing industry celebrated the best in business. And while there was plenty of success on show, it was The New Zealand Automobile Association and AA Insurance that took out the Supreme Award, while Simon Jarvis from New Zealand Racing Board (TAB) was named Marketer of the Year.
Following the announcement of the Webstar Magazine Media Awards Finalists, voting has opened for the Magshop People’s Choice Award.
The Radio Bureau announced the return of the Outstanding Radio Creative Awards (ORCA) in 2019.
The finalists have been announced for this year’s Best Design Awards.
The 2018 Webstar Magazine Media Awards finalist lists are out for this year’s 39 categories.
Queenstown Rotary Club hopes to change the perception that advertising means annoying sales pitchy commercials at the Australasian premiere of Night of the AdEaters.
The 2018 News Media Award finalists have been announced by News Media Works after a panel of 50 industry judges narrowed down the entries to shortlists across the 32 categories.
Over the weekend, Colenso BBDO saw Gold once again, as it collected its second, this time for Pedigree’s ‘The Child Replacement Programme’.
Overnight, it was a great haul of Bronze and Silver Lions for DDB, alongside Lions for Y&R, FCB, Clemenger BBDO and Ogilvy.
Last night, DDB, Y&R and The SweetShop collected their first Lions while Colenso’s ‘SelfiStix’ for Pedigree continued its winning streak.
While we slept, Colenso BBDO added to its gong collection, with four Lions awarded to Pedigree’s ‘SelfiStix’. Saatchi & Saatchi also made the scoreboard with a Bronze Lion and New Zealand’s success looks to continue with more finalists announced.
This week, New Zealand’s PR practitioners gathered to recognise and celebrate best practice at the PRINZ Awards where the Department of Internal Affairs was awarded the Supreme Award.
Colenso BBDO and FCB New Zealand have been ranked third and fourth Most Effective Agencies in Asia-Pacific in the Effie Effectiveness Index. Meanwhile, Special Group has been ranked the Most Effective Independent Agency in Asia-Pacific and the sixth Most Effective Independent Agency in the world.
On Friday night, journalists from around the country gathered to celebrate excellence in their practice – and there was plenty on show, with 355 finalists across 68 categories. The big winners on the night were The Weekend Herald and the New Zealand Herald’s Matt Nippert.
Last night, a sell-out crowd of just under 1000 keen New Zealand media personalities came together for the 2018 Commercial Communications Council Beacon Awards, in association with NZME. In what was a celebration of the industry’s best work from the past year, the Viaduct Events Centre turned it on as the media industry leered up for the annual celebration.
Idealog’s Design Series Event is fast approaching, and will feature talks from design deity Peter Haythornthwaite, Method Agency’s managing director Sam Ramlu, craftsman, sculptor and educator Carin Wilson, and RCG’s associate director Andy Florkowski, live painting from up-and-coming artist Jake Feast, as well as the grand reveal of the winner of our Blunt + Generator Umbrella experiment. With just over a week to go, now is a great time to get tickets.