A couple of weeks back it was all backslaps and bumpats at Saatchi & Saatchi after it won the Sanitarium account. But this week it’s back to what seems to have become a relatively normal state of flux for the agency after a couple more high-profile additions and subtractions.
The One Show and One Show Interactive pencil winners have been announced. And, unusually, despite nabbing nine nominations, Kiwi agencies have come away with a big fat donut and a few merit certificates.
If you believe the Saatchi & Saatchi email footers, optimism abounds this year: ‘2010: Nothing is Impossible’, they claim. And the new planning and production talent added to the arsenal this week has put a bit more wind in the sails of ‘The Lovemarks Company’.
There have been a plethora of announcements about finalists and nomination lists for international advertising awards in the last few days. And just a select few Kiwi agencies have garnered accolades and praise for their handiwork.
Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand has continued its frenetic period of hiring, this time managing to lure top London creative Angus Wardlaw and ex-DDB suit Simon Wedde to the Auckland office.
Who it’s for: Tui Blond by Saatchi & Saatchi.
Why we like it: Tui sticks to what it knows and dishes out a few home truths and cheeky social observations on the Kiwi zeitgeist for April Fools, focusing on the many fools and some of the head-shaking foolishness …
StopPress has heard from a reliable yet sneaky mole that Andrew Stone and Mike O’Sullivan’s new shop will be opening its doors shortly and, apparently, it won’t be too dissimilar from Assignment, with the two ex-Saatchi’s chaps planning on working with clients on strategy and creative and then outsourcing the grunt work to a pool of freelancers. But the big Fleetwood Mac is that the new shop might be opening its doors with a fairly big name on the roster: Toyota.
Who it’s for: Tui Blond by Saatchi & Saatchi.
Why we like it: Self-reflexive and slightly in-jokey but it’s always entertaining seeing a grown man try to eat a number of dry Weetbix.
Multiple award-winning, London-based advertising creative Dylan Harrison has been appointed executive creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand.
Another decade, another round of departures scheduled for the embattled Saatchi & Saatchi.
New Zealand-born international advertising executive Nicola Bell has been appointed chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand, replacing the outgoing Andrew Stone.
Could it be? Fastline has reported rumours from a “very reliable source” that Saatchi’s CEO Andrew Stone and ECD Mike O’Sullivan have resigned.
Numerous attempts were made to get someone, anyone, to confirm or deny, but no-one in the Auckland office – including the two men in question – was …
This month in California, Amber Duik sued Saatchi & Saatchi for US$10 million for terrorising her as part of a campaign for Toyota.
Duik claims she was harrassed by emails from a man called Sebastian Bowler, who said he was on the run from the police, knew where she lived …