The latest agency news, campaigns and client wins (and losses) making headlines across Aotearoa.
The first-ever tap and go donation panel has hit our streets thanks to oOh!media. The bus shelter allows passengers to tap their eftpos card to make a three dollar donation to the Breast Cancer Foundation.
Last night our nation’s finest agencies gathered together at Galatos for the Battle of the Ad Bands (BOTAB) held by Flying Fish productions. There was singing, there was dancing, there was no lack of feathers and glitter, and most important there were some very deserving winners.
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NZME’s group director of entertainment, Dean Buchanan, has announced today that he will be departing the business on 29 November after six years in the role.
Launches, expansions and acquisitions across the Industry.
MediaWorks has announced it intends to sell MediaWorks TV as well as its Flower Street property which includes its television head office and studios. It will retain ownership of radio and QMS.
Broadcaster MediaWorks is cutting key local TV comedies. Mediawatch says It’s a further sign of the company’s deepening problems and wider troubles in free-to-air television, and is also a headache for the broadcasting funding agency New Zealand On Air.
On Ponsonby Road, a Lumo digital billboard has been spotted in front of a JCDeaux billboard. StopPress went to the players involved to ask what was going on.
This week marked New Zealand’s very first Think With Google event, ‘Bridging the Digital Divide’. Here, country director of Google New Zealand Caroline Rainsford shares how these events will help create meaningful business connections.
AA Insurance brings together a clash of fantasy versus reality in its latest spot via DDB New Zealand.
Everybody cha-cha real smooth for Education New Zealand, BNZ, Huffer and AA Insurance.
Gone is the red building at 22 Stanley Street in Parnell, Auckland as New Zealand’s newest independent agency has taken over. Dubbed Stanley St, the agency is now standing on its own two feet without the support of the Ogilvy name or WPP AUNZ ownership. A bold move to break free from a holding company, Erin McKenzie sits down with the new managing director Ian Rodney to hear what Stanley St stands for.
Bank of New Zealand has launched its latest campaign ‘Kids’ Room’ via Colenso BBDO – and for anyone who has shared a room with a sibling, it will strike a chord.
New Zealand Rugby is to take a 5 percent stake in Sky as it unveils a new broadcast deal.
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In the first of a series highlighting the vibrant women in New Zealand business doing great things in their respective fields, Elly Strang, editor of Idealog profiles Hilary Ngan Kee, the head of strategy and a director at award-winning agency Motion Sickness.
Spark Sport says it has broadcast rights to NZ Cricket fixtures from April 2020 with TVNZ as free to air partner.
Huffer has partnered with the Mental Health Foundation and Kiwi musicians support mental health awareness in a musical campaign by Reload & Smoke.
Education New Zealand has shinned the light on some of the joys of studying on our shores with the help of Special Group. The campaign message encourages potential international students to ‘Ask New Anything’, as they hear the benefits of studying in New Zealand from past students.
Stanley St has put a focus on local talent acquisitions. It’s introducing five new roles into its Wellington office, including Aaron White as head of Stanley St Wellington.
The 2019 Best Awards was held at the Spark Arena on Friday night celebrating the crème de la crème of the design industry. It recognised designers, young and old, for their craft across a range of categories, from graphic to moving image to product design. Most who attended were in agreement that the night was a blast, and resembled the maturing success of the design industry in Aotearoa. Here is a breakdown of the supreme winners.
In the wake of comments in bad taste making their way into StopPress’ comment section, we want to know what you think of the platform and how you’d like to see it used in the future.
Everybody jazz hands for NZTA, Abes Bagels and the Breast Cancer Foundation.
To celebrate Jo Mitchell’s Marketer of the Year win at the 2019 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards last month, oOh!media took it to the streets.
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Launches, expansions and acquisitions across the Industry.
The New Zealand Transport Agency and Clemenger BBDO have released a new campaign that stresses the same old story; if you drink and drive you will get snapped.
From beauty and personal care to chocolate, Philip Poole’s impact on New Zealand’s marketing industry is undeniable.
In the wake of Scapegrace Black hitting shelves, we talk to the distillery’s co-founder Mark Neal about how the new gin reaffirms what the brand stands for while pushing innovation in the spirits industry.
The Breast Cancer Foundation NZ and Colenso BBDO have launched Pre Check, a multi-sensory app that uses intuitive haptic technology to teach your hands how to look for breast cancer.
The 100 finalists for this year’s Effie Awards have been announced and DDB leads the way with 28 mentions, followed by FCB and Colenso BBDO, both on 20.
Heineken is one of six global sponsors for Rugby World Cup 2019. StopPress spoke with Sean O’Donnell, director of marketing at DB, about the value of sponsorship, innovation and Kiwis’ love for rugby.
Out-of-home advertising has a new innovation with real-time traffic sight reports. This new report will help advertisers use metrics and the data collected to get the best effects possible with out-of-home activations.
Bash those palms against each another repeatedly for Vogel’s, EECA, and L&P.
L&P has taken an interesting step with its latest campaign by DDB. Titled ‘The Best Day Ever’, the new campaign promotes itself as being ‘refreshingly different’, yet in some ways, it falls more into the refreshingly disgusting category.
Colenso BBDO has taken the title of Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year at the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity.