The striking image of a muscly lumberjack body with a John Key face has won NAB’s September Newspaper Ad of the Month.
The Stop the Chop ad calls for action against the government making a new law that will allow people to chop down urban trees without permission. It …
The Media Counsel, the agency which lost its PMAA accredition, has forgone an opportunity to appeal the decision.
It appointed another accredited agency Aegis (also known as Carat) to handle its bookings.
Media Counsel boss Glenda Wynyard (“street-fighting hori”) said yesterday:We have made the decision to forego accreditation with …
The Marketing Agencies Association Worldwide (MAA Worldwide) has announced the MAA GLOBES finalists for the Best of the Best Promotional Marketing Campaigns in the World for 2009.
Australasian Promotional Marketing Association (APMA) Star Award winners are eligible to participate in the GLOBES. This year Australian and NZ agencies are finalists …
Hey big spenders, we’ll spend a little time with you.Most curious ad this week: what is BOC?
Come in, take a pew, welcome to Export Figures, the first in a series of profiles of talented NZers living overseas and making a crust in the marcomms biz.
Glen Hunwick’s one of those Kiwis who’s been in Melbourne for years but we’ll still claim him as …
Name: Sandy Moore, CEOCompany: DDB Group NZ Ltd (DDB, Rapp, Mango, Interbrand, Tribal DDB)Staff: 180Offices in NZ: Auckland and Wellington Notable clients: NZ Lotteries, McDonald’s, SKY TV, Cadbury, The Warehouse, Lion Nathan, Volkswagen, Telecom, ANZ/National, AMI Insurance, STIHL, Clorox, Tasman Insulation, Heinz Watties, George Weston …
Tangible Media is building a nice little stable of consumer titles covering a gamut of niche interests – Dish, Real Groove, NZ Rugby World, Habitat – and now the company has a new brand manager for Driver magazine, Chris Merlini (sounds like a posh car brand). So expect to see a higher …
Suave winners/cocktail crooners Matt Simpkins and Kelly Lovelock of DraftFCB
The August winner of The Radio Bureau’s ORCA award are Matt Simpkins and Kelly Lovelock of DraftFCB for their 70th anniversary humour spot for the NZ Listener. Have a listen here.
All monthly winners have a chance to …
YoungGuns International Advertising Awards are now open for entry. So if you’re a creative whippersnapper under 31 years of age who’s produced some work this year, you’re as eligible as a hen night party at the Viaduct.
As well as the usual multitude of ad categories (TV …
Our eco-squeaky friends at Good magazine are producing a handy little book of healthy and ethical products for YOU – the conscious consumer. The A5, 120+ page Good Shopping Handbook will come free with the Dec/Jan issue of the mag and will be on sale throughout 2010 in supermarkets and …
Hear ye, hear ye! ANZA has announced a new code for prevetting liquor ads. It’s a serious thing that needs to be understood to the letter, so here’s the full press release:The Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) new Code for Naming, Packaging and Labelling of Liquor becomes …
Who by: DDB Worldwide (Singapore). Produced by: Glen Art ProductionsWho for: Health Promotion BoardWhy we like it: Animated talking monkeys! And directed by Kiwi Glen Hunwick.
The big boy’s club gets bigger at TVNZ. From today it has appointed Colenso BBDO as its brand agency to complement AIM Proximity, who has been TVNZ’s digital agency for the past 15 months. It’s a clever collaborative Clemenger Group consolidation.
The agency has “big amibitions” for …
Set your alarms for 3pm NZ time on Thursday 1 October: ecostore founder Malcolm Rands, also known as Eco Man, will be hosting a one-hour party in cyberspace via Twitter. This is your chance to chat tweet-to-tweet and get some sustainable living tips from this successful and insightful eco-entrepreneur. His …
The Mitre 10 ‘Sandpit kids’ ad has been voted by the NZ public as the Best Ad in Fair Go’s annual ad awards. It crunched the competition in the votes it received (view the nominees list here). Its five-year-old stars, Ruben and Benjamin, truly stole the show and won …
Illustration by Cathy Wilcox from businessday.com.au
Kraft Foods has admitted to making a massive mistake when naming its new Vegemite product iSnack2.0. Our previous post reports Kraft defending the name, saying it “was chosen based on its personal call to action, relevance to snacking and clear identification …
Fair Go presents its annual Best and Worst Ads tonight on TV One at 7.30pm. Last year’s awards episode was the 2nd most popular show in 2008, drawing nearly 750,000 viewers (just behind Dancing with the Stars).
As well as the main awards and the Student Ad …
Peter Myles, director of Omnicom Media Group, is to step down this week.
A leading figure in New Zealand media buying, Myles is a “victim of bureaucracy” according to former media boss Martin Gillman.
In 2007 Myles was appointed executive director of OMG (at times styled as Opera) a jointly …
The winner of the Battle of the Bands caption contest is … B!
Mexican-wrestler-wielding-guitar fancy dress penis suit wins judges hearts.
And Suzanne McNamara made us giggle the most with her entry to accompany Rodney Hide’s pic in Headline op missed.
Sharples only comes up to here on me.
You …
The Media Counsel asks this week: Why do we need a second racing channel, TAB TV? What two channels now screen free-to-air football from the Oceania Football Confederation? Who were the top-selling artists in downloads and ringtones in the Telecom Mobile Music Awards?Big clue
Read it all here. MediaMonitor …
Advertising Week in New York last week was the 6th annual gathering of creatives Stateside. The five days were filled with discussions and showcases on what’s making waves across all the advertising mediums. It even had a Battle of the Ad Bands concert. One notable presentation was by Jessica …
Released last month, these VW 4Motion print ads by DDB NZ get a woop from us. Eye-catching, clever and an homage to the exceptional MC Escher.
Are you a “hungry world-class MD”? Love junk food? You might want to wing it to Sydney to apply for the top position at Bulldozer Inc.
The agency has just won the Kettle Chip account after a four-way pitch. The client was handled by DDB for the past five years …
Nothing like a meteorological phenomenon to pep up your copywriting talents. Stuck in their offices, surrounded by flying red dirt, some agency creatives quickly came up with these print and online ads to make their brands most topical in the face of impending suffocation.
A cuddly retro orange C is the logo behind internet phone company, Conversant. Brewing for a couple of years now, the company’s mission is “to help medium and small business escape the tyranny of the big telecom providers”.
The new website launches Conversant into the sandpit with the big …
Last week, a US federal appeals court heard the case of i4i vs. Microsoft following the August 11 Texas court ruling that ordered Microsoft to pay US$290m to i4i for infringement of i4i’s patent of an XML tag editor.
A simple version of the backstory can be read …
In The Media Counsel’s consumer report, results from a US social media study show that 86 per cent of retailers have created a Facebook fan page for their product. But their biggest fear is that “people can trash my products in front of large audiences”.
Consumer Counsel Social Media …
With nearly 50,000 names submitted, including the inventive Wow Chow, Ruddymite and 2ritemite, Kraft Australia has named its new Vegemite spread, wait for it … iSnack2.0. WTF? The winning name came from 27-year-old Dean Robbins, a web designer (no kidding).
Responding to a demand for a spread that did …
Despite Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp making serious noises about charging for its online news, a recent Pure poll of 18,000 Australians are not impressed; 78 per cent don’t want a bar of it.
Only 5 per cent said they would pay for “high-quality articles” and only 7 …
Our beloved leader looks a little, well, star struck, meeting the big man. And we don’t mean Obama.
John Key reads the “Top 10 Reasons to Visit New Engla … New Zealand!”