News
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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Opinion
It’s not easy being green
This week from the Consumer Counsel: It’s not easy being green. Tough economic times have led to reduced environmental spending. But the greenest consumers are showing little change in their commitment to the environment. They’re just replacing idealism with hard-boiled pragmatism and modifying their own behaviour rather than buying green products that many believe are overpriced.
News
Herald gets Mudie
Ryan Mudie has been appointed as group account manager for nzherald.co.nz and will join the team on 7 December.
Opinion
Sky re-dips its toes in the internet stream
This week from the Media Counsel: The ‘Sky Online’ service was switched off back in August. But look what’s happening now.
News
Newspaper ad mediocrity abounds in November
So mediocre were the entries for the November newspaper ad of the month that the judges decided not to pick a winner. They didn’t even hand out any merit certificates.
News
Pitch report: Blomfield confused; TVNZ not amused
Last week, Matt Blomfield, Hell Pizza comms manager and co-owner of Pitch Televsion, told StopPress a new reality TV show that pitted young advertising creatives against each other in a series of pitching battles had been commissioned by TVNZ and would screen on Saturday nights at 7.30pm starting in May.
News
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.
News
Lambasting the lamb-eaters
Who it’s for: Silver Fern Farms
Why we like it: Good Kiwi man ‘o the land takes back what’s rightfully ours from a bunch of Euro aristocrats. More patriotic post-colonial New Zealand humour from the stubbie-loving Colenso crew.
News
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.
News
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 …
News
Advertising: where dreams become reality shows
Mad Men ticks all the fictional advertising boxes on TV. And now Pitch, a new TV show that’s just been commissioned by TVNZ will focus on the ‘reality’.
Opinion
Shop till you read
In this week’s edition of eBuzz from the Media Counsel: The NZ Herald Online adds shopping to its portfolio. But how exclusive are its offerings?
News
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.
News
Very blue Sky thinking from DDB
As my mother always said, whether you’re engaging in shemale love, being attacked by a shark, suffering from horrible sunburn or lying under a car close to death, there’s always someone worse off than you.
News
Ads @ 6: 19 November – 25 November
We don’t mute the ads. Or fast forward through the ads. We record the ads. At six.
News
Bird flies the coop to join Naked
Naked has hired Simon Bird as one of the key personnel in its New Zealand operation. Management duties will be shared by Bird and Matt O’Sullivan, who left Carat after just nine weeks a few months back to set up the New Zealand arm of the international media agency.
News
Battle of the bottles
The StopPress towers have been inundated with new bottles of stuff recently. Which got us to thinking: what is New Zealand’s best looking bottle? Or New Zealand’s best looking label?
News
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.
News
Arty envelopes vying for supremacy
The 2009 finalists for the Art of the Envelope awards have been announced and a panel headed up by TBWA\Whybin’s Andy Blood will announce the winners on Thursday night.
News
L’Oréal throws a pitch out
L’Oréal New Zealand and ZenithOptimedia are set to part ways after three years together.
News
Herald harnesses raw power of Shopping 2.3
Tanning kits, kettles and wine have now joined political scandals, gruesome homicides and pictures of crocodiles being attacked by hippos on nzherald.co.nz after its new shopping section was released this week. And it’s just in time for Chrissy!
News
The 2009 TVNZ/NZ Marketing Awards
For those who missed out, here’s your chance to feast your eyes on all the results from the year’s biggest event in marketing.
News
Hanover Finance and Chapman Tripp go to Hell
Photo: gotcha.co.nz
Hell Pizza love a bit of advertising-related controversy. And it created some more after releasing a couple of mobile billboards headlined ‘greed’ that featured head and shoulders photos of the founders of Hanover Finance, Mark Hotchin and Eric Watson.
News
Dental as anything
Who for: SkyTV
Why we like it: ‘Lomu, aww, aww, aww, awww.’ A bravura performance in the dentist’s chair. And the armchair. DDB go to the happy place.
News
Allan Scott wine giveaway
Allan Scott Family winemakers have come to the Christmas party and are generously giving away a few bottles of sweet, sweet Marlborough nectar to two lucky StopPress readers.
News
Fairfax: getting better war stories
Fairfax Media Networks is going to war with its new trade marketing campaign Arm Yourself, which will be launched later this week.
News
Brent Impey to stand down from MediaWorks
MediaWorks NZ CEO Brent Impey will be stepping down from the role at the end of this year after nearly 10 years in the hot seat.
Opinion
Danone’s six step process
This week in the Consumer Counsel: Global food giant Danone thinks the “world at large has gone, and is still going through, a profound transformational phase which will have a long-lasting impact on society and on consumer behaviour.” And there are six converging trends it believes businesses need to pay attention to.
Opinion
Grinch to Christmas: “You’re goin’ down”
This week from the Media Counsel: Christmas looms. But can Kiwi wallets be pried open?
News
Don Draper gets Drafted
A few weeks back, DraftFCB took the fairly unusual step – for an advertising agency, at least – of sponsoring Mad Men on Prime TV. But they’ve upped the weirdness quotient even further and fashioned a few promotional Don Draper dolls.