Those festive folk at New Zealand Post’s targeted communications department have launched a new service for businesses and individuals hoping to send a few personalised cards over Christmas.
Monteith’s is sure to set a few e-tongues a-waggin’ with today’s ‘soft-launch’ of its Worth Talking Over website.
Colenso BBDO/AIM Proximity have a few more trophies to put on the treehouse mantelpiece after it was given some big ups at the Digital Media Awards in Shanghai.
Last week, our dear leader turned a few symbolic clods on the banks of the Waikato River and kicked the New Zealand Cycle Trail project into ‘high gear’.
It’s fair to say that ridiculing New Zealand towns – or, more particularly, the slogans attached to them – is one of our nation’s favourite pastimes. And we have the metrics to prove it
Porter Novelli reeled in one of the biggest accounts in the country yesterday after it was appointed as Microsoft’s “public relations agency of record for product and corporate communications”. And, adding to the new account festivities, Big Communications and NewImproved have been enlisted as the creative agency partners for the hospitality arm of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Josh Lancaster and Jamie Hitchcock have confirmed they are leaving Colenso to set up their own agency. And Colenso have made a few changes to the creative roster as a result.
Who for: Orcon broadband
Why we like it: Iggy writhes to the online Kiwi cacophony.
And number two:
Who for: Panasonic Lumix
Why we like it: It’s filmed in New Zealand. And it’s a moderately comical way to show the camera’s waterproofery.
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Joanna Seddon, the executive vice president of Millward Brown and global head of Millward Brown Optimor, has been announced as the international keynote speaker for the 2009 Marketing Forum in December.
Asia Pacific marcomms newspaper Media has announced its agency of the year shortlist and TBWA’s Andy Blood and DDB’s Toby Talbot are in the running for the creative of the year award.
This week in the Consumer Counsel: The US Food and Drug Administration recently began hearings into pharmaceutical marketing – and specifically online pharmaceutical marketing. And it seems the marketers are happy to take some guidance.
This week from The Media Counsel: BBC television content is now available on your mobile. Let the floodgates open.
With an array of animated whizzbangery, a smoke machine, a sultry female robot voice from the future, some impressive ratings data and a fair degree of warranted braggadocio, TVNZ announced their new season line-up tonight.
StopPress has it on good authority that the dynamic creative duo of Josh Lancaster and Jamie Hitchcock will soon be leaving Colenso BBDO to set up their own shop.
Christmas has come early for DraftFCB after it was confirmed the agency would take over the Westfield account from TBWA/TEQUILA.
Urgent Courier’s Mobile AdVert scheme has attracted its first major paying client, with Telstra Clear deciding to emblazon their message on 17 of the company’s low emission vehicles for eight months.
TVNZ has recently launched its new business marketing/sales website tvnzplanit.co.nz to help agency folk (and advertisers, if they’re that way inclined) access TV and online sales opportunities.
New Zealand is quite fond of large novelty structures: giant carrots, trout, sheep and L&P bottles are practically everywhere. And now we’ve got another one to add to the list: the world’s largest graphic film installation.
Sick of banging a collection of mystery meats on the barbie when guests come calling? Tired of ignoring the culinary master within and failing to expand the recipe repertoire? Becoming morbidly obese due to a constant diet of beer and fish ‘n’ chips?
Fastline has reported that big changes are afoot for Carat, claiming both the Christchurch and Wellington offices are set to close and a number of redundancies are likely.
2degrees Mobile has given Telecom a gloveslap and is set to lodge a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority over two newly issued Telecom brochures because it believes the claims are “misleading and deceptive”.
Passive aggressive group emails blaming someone/everyone for using the margarine; twee rhyming notes imploring us to keep the communal kitchen clean; permanent markers marking milk levels; desperate attempts to get colleagues to sign-up to a support group… The list goes on.
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The official word is in: Colenso BBDO will farewell managing director Brent Smart at the end of this year as he takes up the reins at BBDO West, based in San Francisco.
AIM Proximity and Colenso BBDO were handed a prestigious Golden Pencil at last night’s AWARD awards for the Yellow Treehouse campaign (Direct Marketing – Integrated Solutions).
As an arthritic 2009 limps to a close, Christmas and all its associated festive cheer looms ominously.
And the perennial question of what to give the people you want to suck up to remains pertinent.
ANZ’s new global brand identity has already had an airing in Indonesia, Australia and other parts of Asia. But we’ll have to wait a while for the external rollout in New Zealand (and the inevitable discussions about how good it is and how much it cost).
Are print magazines doomed? Or do the digiterati need to get off their high horse and accept that good old tactile paper is here to stay?
Mobile display ad provider Admob is today nuzzling comfortably in the bosom of Google after being offered NZ$1 billion of precious stock. And Kiwi mobile marketers are dancing a celebratory jig in response to the news.
