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WAVE grows comms team
Creative communications agency, WAVE, has announced the expansion of its public relations & communications team.
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‘Tis the season to say ‘yes’
Optus is bringing a new optimistic story to Australians this festive season showing the great things that can happen from saying yes.
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oOh!’s Innovation Awards shine light on incredible innovation in Out of Home industry
Today, oOh!media is calling on the Kiwi marketing and media industry to vote for this year’s most innovative Out of Home campaigns.
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Stanley St appoints new Creative Directors
ECD at Stanley St, Brad Collett, has wasted no time in attracting new talent into his creative department by appointing new Creative Directors.
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Latest TVC for Tower Insurance shot remotely in Queenstown by Flying Fish
New work from Flying Fish for Tower Insurance sees the creative production studio tap into remote shooting utilising the freedoms from the rest of NZ.
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A Virtual Show for the 2021 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards
The organisers of the 2021 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards, NZ Marketing mag and MA, have made the decision not to go ahead with an in-person Awards Night.
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Rova 2021 NZ Podcast Awards announces their inaugural winners
An esteemed pool of local and international judges have trawled through submissions from 170+ Kiwi podcasts, which came from 400+ nominations.
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NZME appoints Jared De Wet to lead Digital Agency Sales
NZME has announced experienced digital marketing leader Jared De Wet as its new General Manager Digital Sales, Agency.
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Scroll Media and Gameloft unite to gamify brands
Adtech business Scroll Media is representing global games platform Gameloft to help advertisers reach in game audiences.
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Look forward to easier and healthier meal options with Republik
Freemans Bay indie agency Republik has created a campaign to promote Regal’s Cold Smoked range of King salmon products.
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Aussie agency Bastion takes majority stake in Shine
Local independent agency Shine has signed a partnership with Australian independent agency group Bastion.
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Special lead the way at shortlist stage of Campaign Asia ‘Agency of the Year’ awards.
Special leads the NZ agency pack by some way with 9 finalists across Agency of the Year categories including ‘New Zealand Agency of the Year’.
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Sky Tower lights up as New Zealand celebrates vaccination milestone
New Zealand’s iconic Sky Tower is to light up in support of the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
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Lucinda Sherborne departs DDB to set up strategy consultancy
Strategist Lucinda Sherborne has departed DDB Aotearoa after nearly 15 years to establish her own strategic consultancy business.
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Villa Maria and Contagion celebrate those perfect moments
Villa Maria has rolled-out a new brand campaign ‘Perfect Moments’ via their creative and media agency, Contagion.
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Special PR team grows
Special PR has appointed Sarah Prigg as an Account Director & Duncan Killick as a Senior PR Manager to its Auckland office.
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oOh!media launches Art In The Hood installation
This is oOh!’s second year supporting the community initiative, the goal of which is to engage local schools in creating unique art for Auckland.
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Kiwi Wealth encourages savers to look beyond #1 rankings via The Goat Farm
Kiwi Wealth’s ‘Smarter Reasons’, in collaboration with The Goat Farm & Sneakers Media, aims to reframe the conversation around retirement saving.
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RUN’s Raymond McKay set to be a juror for the Clio Awards
RUN Co-founder and CCO, Raymond Otene McKay will be a juror for the prestigious Clio Awards for 2022.
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MediaWorks welcomes Polly Gillespie, Mark Richardson, Wilhelmina Shrimpton & Robett Hollis
MediaWorks has announced a host of new talent who will be joining its talk brand in 2022.
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Kirsty Muddle joins dentsu as Creative Group CEO
Dentsu has announced the appointment of creative industry heavyweight Kirsty Muddle to run the Creative businesses across Australia & New Zealand.
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Discovery selects True to relaunch free-to-air portfolio
Discovery will partner with indie agency True to create and launch a refreshed portfolio of free-to-air entertainment brands into the local market.
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Clemenger Group wins big at 2021 Effie Aotearoa Awards
The Comms Council has this evening celebrated the country’s most effective marketing campaigns via a virtual 2021 Effie Aotearoa Awards.
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AM Show gets a shake up, and a new co-host to wake up to
Discovery has today announced that Melissa Chan-Green will join Ryan Bridge as co-host of Newshub’s all-new morning show ‘AM’.
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Discovery unveils bold plans for local audiences and advertisers in 2022
StopPress speaks with Discovery’s Glen Kyne on what a 70 percent increase in its local content means for Kiwi advertisers.
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LUMO welcomes in new hires for 2022 expansion
LUMO Digital Outdoor has welcomed in two new hires across its account management and operations teams.
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Publicis Groupe unveils new paid leave policies and remote working initiative
Publicis Groupe ANZ have announced a raft of new paid leave entitlements, and remote working initiative, Publicis Re’Union.
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Restaurant & Cafe magazine gets behind Hands Up 4 Hospo auction
Stoddart NZ and Restaurant & Cafe magazine have created an online auction called Hands Up 4 Hospo to help support affected businesses.
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Farrimond appoints Lou Devine as MD
Lou Devine, previously at The Warehouse Group, has joined Farrimond as Managing Director where she will be responsible for developing the agency.
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Film Construction signs 1 billion views director
Signed to Smuggler in NY, Antidote Films in Ireland, & now Film Construction for Asia Pacific, Brendan Canty pretty much has the world at his feet.