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The Life of Bruce and Brian: 2degrees and TBWA\’s animated approach makes big Ad Impact
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After taking out the big one at the Marketing Awards last year, selling its wares to over 580,000 customers and bringing home a few other weighty accolades in its 18 month history, 2degrees and TBWA\ are already well-accustomed to winning. And it can add another trophy to the box sitting in Rhys Darby’s attic after the new Bruce and Brian spot was judged the winner of the March edition of Colmar Brunton’s Ad Impact Awards. 

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Gloveslap! Victories claimed, rises charted and rebuttal given as old broadcasting foes face off once again
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The latest TV viewership figures for March are out and, amid the many regularly overused adjectives (primarily staggering, dramatic, massive and all-important), both warring parties are, as per usual, claiming victories, with TVNZ’s news audience increasing substantially and MediaWorks trumpeting a big rise in more lucrative eyeballs since the launch of FOUR. And while there’s always a bit of press release-based argy bargy when these numbers are set loose, it’s pistols at dawn when it comes to the morning news figures. 

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Axis Ondemand: For those who weren’t there and those who can’t remember
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The Axis Awards are now available to view on TVNZ Ondemand in glorious technicolour, so fill you boots with an edited package of the creative hoedown that includes red carpet highlights, as well as numerous interviews with gold winners, industry luminaries and the esteemed international judges explaining why they awarded certain campaigns. And, not to let an chance go by, TVNZ has also explained some of the creative opportunities the medium allows, with an explanation of Ad on Pause and the joys of the ‘Companion Banner’ chucked in for good measure. 

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TRB releases its ‘unofficial’ Axis awards video
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To leverage its sponsorship of the Radio category at this year’s Axis awards, the Radio Bureau ran a very impressive promotion to choose the decade’s best radio ad and gave away some top notch booty to the voters/winners on awards night, including a couple of round the world airfares. Now it has released its ‘unofficial’ Axis awards video, which, in a rare bacon-free performance, is hosted by ‘that guy’ Leigh Hart, whose typically awkward interviewing style and complete lack of shame makes for a fairly entertaining spiritual journey through the exciting world of advertising—and advertising stereotypes.

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TVNZ Student Axis: Jono Fox + Jack Delmonte, AdSchool
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The brief from TVNZ to the young advertising whippersnappers was to get more viewers to tune into ONE’s flagship 6pm bulletin. And Jono Fox and Jack Delmonte of Adschool took the win with their smart integrated campaign ‘Make Sense of it at Six’. The other finalists were Jen Waldron and Ben Polkinghorne of  AdSchool and Adam Martin of AUT University’s Creative Advertising School.

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Outdoor Billboard & Campaign: DDB, Colenso BBDO + DraftFCB
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Disappointingly, there were no golds dished out in these categories, but Colenso’s ‘Real Stories’ for TVNZ’s The Pacific took silver in the Outdoor Campaign section, as did DraftFCB for Prime’s ‘Eating Out’ (this campaign also won a bronze in the Transit Advertising—Single category). DDB and Sky’s rather nifty ‘Through Someone Else’s Eyes’ for the Travel Channel won bronze in the Outdoor Campaign section and also took a bronze for the Billboard—Special Build. 

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Copywriting & Art Direction and Typography: DDB + Clemenger BBDO
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In the copywriting section, which included both print and electronic, DDB took bronze with its Noland ad for Sky’s Arts Channel, while in Art Direction & Typography, Clemenger BBDO’s Hamlet-inspired book sculpture for Booksellers New Zealand was awarded a silver and DDB’s Catalogue and Tee Shirt Folding Machine for AS Colour took bronze.

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Creative Business of the Year: Yellow Pages Ltd
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As the entry video shows, Yellow and Colenso believed you could get anything done with Yellow. But in a world dominated by Google, they had to say it loudly. And, like the award-winning Yellow Treehouse before it, Yellow Chocolate did just that. Whether this campaign achieved business results is debateable (Yellow could also be in line for the Creative Accounting Business of the Year), but that’s an argument for another day. In keeping with the creative Axis vibe, what is clear is that Colenso came up with a big, complicated idea, the Yellow powers that be were brave enough to run with it and the pair brought the many disparate parts together in the form of a chocolate bar. 

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StopPress squeezes Creative juices all over new channel
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Ewwwww, what’s this? Why it’s us, softly launching a juicy new Creative channel on StopPress. Just as you’ve come to love and expect, we’ve got loads of creative advertising to show off, and loads of news about advertising creatives. So to help you get it faster, we’re putting it all in one place—minus all the distractions. Just the work, the awards and the work. Check out the new channel here and fill your boots with a virtual cornucopia of Axis awards winners. Love, The StopPressers.

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Radio Single & Radio Campaign: DDB + TBWA\Tequila
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No golds were handed out in the Radio Single category, but DDB walked away with the next best thing, a silver for its ‘Van Gogh’ commercial, which was part of the Arts Channel radio campaign for Sky TV. It was the only award handed out in the category and adds to the Silver Lion Scriptwriting award picked up by DDB last year at Cannes. Listen to it here. No golds or silvers were handed out in the Radio Campaign category, but DDB won bronze for the Arts Channel campaign (Van Gogh, Rothco and Pollock) and TBWA\Tequila followed suit with a bronze for the 2degrees campaign. Anne Boothroyd and Bigid Alkema’s Sliding Doors was voted the best radio ad of the decade for the Radio Bureau’s Grandest Orca. 

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Social & Digital/Interactive: Colenso BBDO + DraftFCB
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Colenso’s ‘Yellow Chocolate’ was the only campaign deemed worthy of a nod in the Social category and was awarded one of eight golds for its efforts, while DraftFCB’s ‘The Journal’ was also a lonely winner in the Digital/Interactive category after picking up a bronze. 

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Soundtrack: Liquidstudios + The Sweet Shop
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The Soundtrack category honours original music or arrangement as well as exisiting music, and Speights ‘Man Like Natural’ campaign, with its ‘we can grow beards if we want to’ hook, earned The Sweet Shop a silver. Liquidstudios was the only other winner, picking up a bronze in the category for its sonic touch on the ‘Telecom Brand 2010’ campaign.

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Guerilla Advertising: Colenso BBDO
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Colenso BBDO swept this category, receiving both of the awards that were handed out. Having received a silver at the AWARD awards for its ‘Dog Fight’ campaign for TVNZ’s mini-series The Pacific, it went one better this time round and picked up a gold. As well as staging a fighter plane spectacle in Auckland’s Mission bay, the campaign also featured a mural on Auckland’s Symonds Street adorned with hundreds of copies of authentic letters sent by marines, along with photos. Colenso’s other win was a bronze for its ‘A Rubbish Idea’ campaign for Heart of the City and Auckland City Council. ‘Flowerbeds’ were created on rubbish hotspots to discourage dumping and Auckland businesses given an education kit, including some of the floral rubbish bags. 

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Websites: DraftFCB
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There was only one award handed out in the websites category, and while DraftFCB and the Ministry of Health’s ‘The Journal’ wiped the floor at the RSVP & Nexus Awards, a bronze was all it warranted at Axis. 

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Charity: Clemenger BBDO + DraftFCB
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Earth Hour 2011 may have only recently wrapped up, but Clemenger BBDO’s ‘Ads In The Dark’ campaign has reaped the rewards for its efforts to draw awareness to last year’s Earth Hour, picking up a silver award in the charity category. The campaign featured popular commercials from Fatso, Instant Kiwi and McDonald’s, previously bathed in full light, being lit by only candlelight. Picking up the only other award in the category, also a silver, was DraftFCB for its ‘Make a friend in real life, not just online’ Facebook app for the SPCA. 

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Magazine Single & Magazine Campaign: DraftFCB + DDB
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Having picked up a bronze at the recent AWARD awards, DraftFCB has gone one better at the Axis, this time picking up two silvers in the Magazine Single category for some crafty interpretations of takeaway food in the wild. The first came for its ‘Fries’ print ad and the other for its ‘Kebab’ print ad, both part of its ‘Eating Out’ campaign for Prime TV’s Man vs Wild. The ‘Eating Out’ campaign snagged another silver for DraftFCB in the Magazine Campaign category and DDB picked up a bronze for its ‘Newman/Davis/Noland’ campaign for Sky.

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Direct Response/Direct Campaign/Direct Mail: Colenso BBDO, Special Group + DDB
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In the Direct Response section, Colenso took gold for Yellow Chocolate and a silver for ‘A Rubbish Idea’, while Special Group also took gold for ‘Orcon Business Banner’. And in the Direct Campaign, Colenso came home with both awards, a gold for Yellow Chocolate and a bronze for TVNZ’s ‘Real Stories’ to promote its show The Pacific. In the Direct Mail category, ‘A Rubbish Idea’ and ‘Real Stories’ both took silver, as did DDB’s Catalogue & Tee Shirt Folding Machine for AS Colour.

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Television Commercial Single: DDB, Colenso + Saatchi & Saatchi
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DDB, Sky and Capital City Films’ ‘Leafblower’ spot took home the most metal of any TVC on the night, with a gold in the single television commercial category adding to its impressive haul. DDB also picked up a silver for Lotto’s ‘Lucky Dog’ (which has over 750,000 views on YouTube) and a bronze for Volkswagen’s ‘Milk Run’; Colenso picked up a silver for Vodafone’s ‘Double Back’ spot and a bronze for Frucor’s ‘Ladders’; and Saatchi & Saatchi picked up a bronze for Telecom’s ‘Sunrise, Sunset’.

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Integrated, Interactive & Titanium: Colenso BBDO + Special Group
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Colenso BBDO took all three awards handed out in the Integrated category, with gold for ‘Yellow Chocolate’ and a bronze apiece for Frucor’s ‘V Ladders’ and TVNZ’s ‘Real Stories’ to promote its show The Pacific. It also cleaned up in the Titanium category, with ‘A Rubbish Idea’ taking bronze and ‘Yellow Chocolate’ turning gold once again. Special Group took the only Interactive Axis, winning gold for the ‘Orcon Business Banner’.

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PR/Experiential: DDB Group New Zealand & Colenso BBDO
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DDB New Zealand is the only agency in the country with an experiential creative director. And with brands increasingly looking to create more memorable experiences for consumers, you only have to look at recent campaigns like Cadbury’s Billboards to Bags campaign, ANZ’s Rugby World Cup promotion and Cadbury’s ‘Share the Joy’ Kiwi roadtrip to see this events mentality is infusing itself into more and more of the agency’s advertising. And the ‘Snow Globe’ it created in Auckland just before Christmas for Kraft Foods NZ was deemed to be one of the best examples of that, taking out gold in the PR/Experiential category. Colenso and Yellow also took gold in this category for Yellow Chocolate, as well as two more bronzes, one for ‘A Rubbish Idea’ for Heart of the City and the other for ‘Beer: The Untold Story’ for DB Export’.

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Online Advertising & Branded Content: Special Group
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Special Group, Salt Interactive and Orcon took the humble web banner to places the web banner has never been before in New Zealand and took gold in Online Advertising for their efforts with Orcon. And, by adding Twitter and Facebook functions, it became a rare beast: a banner that was actually shared among friends, showing that interactive utility shows its stripes when impressive content is created to suit the medium. Special Group also won bronze in the branded content for the Volvo ‘Blindfold’ campaign.

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Cinema and Projection & Long-form Content: DDB, Colenso BBDO + TBWA\
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DDB’s Lucky Dog remains goldless, despite being a big crowd favourite, but it takes a silver in Cinema and Projection, while Colenso’s moderately controversial ‘Beer: The Untold Story’ comes home with a bronze. And in the Long-Form Content category, Colenso and DB Export win again with a bronze, as does TBWA\’s ‘Give Your All’ papier mache for Adidas.

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Digital Craft: Special Group & Oktobor
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Special Group and Salt Interactive’s ‘Orcon Business Banner’ was a hit with the StopPress punters when it launched and it also tickled the fancy of the judges of the Digital Craft section. Oktobor, which recently announced it would be moving out of the advertising sandpit to concentrate on its new cash cow animation, also picked up gold in Digital Craft for Shihad’s ‘Sleepeater’, which was a fitting way for a production house that has performed very well at Axis over the years to say farewell.

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Editing, Visual Craft & Direction (on any screen): Capital City Films, Curious, Robber’s Dog, Flying Fish, Film Construction + The Sweet Shop
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In the Editing category, Capital City Films took a silver for Frucor’s ‘Ladders’, Robber’s Dog took bronze for DDB and Volkswagen’s ‘Milk Run’, while Curious came away with two bronzes, one for Liam Finn’s Guide to New Zealand for Tourism New Zealand and the other for Nike’s ‘The Tomic Incident’; in Visual Craft, Capital City Films and Sky took gold for ‘Leafblower’ and silver for Frucor’s Ladders, while Flying Fish picked up a bronze for Vodafone’s ‘In With the New’; and in the Direction section, Capital City Films took another gold with ‘Leafblower’ and three other bronzes were handed out, one for Capital City Films and Frucor’s ‘Ladders’, one for The Sweet Shop and Lotto’s ‘Lucky Dog’ and one for Film Construction’s ‘ALAC Sam’. 

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