Stories about the Commercial Communications Council published on StopPress – Aotearoa/New Zealand’s daily news site for the advertising and marketing industry.
The Commercial Communications Council hopes to promote greater diversity in the industry with the release of an Inclusiveness and Diversity Policy tool for member agencies to adopt.
The market is set to get a sharper picture of New Zealand’s viewing behaviour as the local TV Peoplemeter panel grows by 50 percent across New Zealand. And while The Commercial Communications Council and ANZA have welcomed the change, there’s still a missed opportunity to ensure accurate reporting of ad breaks.
Appalling, shocking, laborious, unprofessional, unfair and time-wasting were just some of the descriptions we’ve recently heard describing the pitching process. Suffice to say there’s a perception that the system is broken. But the Association of New Zealand Advertisers (ANZA) and the Commercial Communications Council doesn’t think it needs to stay this way and have taken steps to fix the issues.
In an effort to lift the levels of diversity across the marketing, advertising and communications industry, the Commercial Communications Council (CCC) has formed a Diversity and Inclusiveness Council. PLUS: It’s launched a voluntary survey to better understand the current state of diversity.
A few New Zealand marcomms folk will be making the trip to Sydney for AWARD later this month and, just as the speeches and seminars have become a major drawcard for the Cannes Lions, they’re also a big drawcard for the Circus Festival of Commercial Creativity. So the The Communications Council decided to remind the region’s most experienced chief marketing officers that when it comes to creative thinking we still have plenty to learn.
Guy Cousins swaps SparkPHD for Naked, Yahoo! promotes two of its own, Rachel Broadmore swaps five-star for financial services, Ian Finch presides over New Zealand’s patent attourneys, Margaret Zabel takes the reins at The Communications Council in Oz and Renee Bushby changes tack.
The 2010 AWARD awards have drawn over two thousand entries across the nine major categories, including the newly created music video, applications, social media, environmental design and branded content. And the organisation responsible for dishing out what are deemed to be Australasia’s most prestigious creative awards (and also for creating the call for entries juggernaut known as Ian), is opening up a number of wildcard position on its juries. So, any Kiwis with an interest in the creative arts—whether they be agency folk or plumbers—can apply to be part of the action.