
Hold onto your drumsticks because this Super Rugby season, KFC is taking fan loyalty to new heights – introducing Zing Air.
Hold onto your drumsticks because this Super Rugby season, KFC is taking fan loyalty to new heights – introducing Zing Air.
Launching its first ever social media activation was scary for Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa – especially as it involved turning peoples’ ‘bits’ into plushies.
TradeMe’s Job Hunt January is back and this time, they’ve partnered with outdoor clothing and equipment brand Kathmandu to offer the position of Overseas Enthusiast.
Special PR has welcomed Jessica McColl to the team as its Head of Brand Experience. McColl brings an impressive career of creative and experiential know-how.
Uber Eats is back with its ‘Get almost, almost anything’ campaign, reminding Kiwis and Australians that the service can deliver more than their favourite takeaway meal.
Special Wellington has brought Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa’s new branding, ‘Let’s Talk,’ to life with an inventive campaign titled Emotional Support Bits.
Scammers thank us very much for their kind ‘donations’ in a Telethon-like event for the National Cyber Security Centre. Special Wellington, MBM and Honeymoon Films staged the happenings for Cyber Smart Week.
Special Group is championing inclusivity in advertising with a new tool: The Inclusive Code, with chapter one focusing on the disabled community.
Every year, thousands migrate down to Aotearoa New Zealand’s deep south – albatross, seals, great white sharks, students.
Mango Communications took out the Supreme Award, and One Plus One and Special Group received gold for PR Agency of the year at the 2024 PRINZ Awards.
Special PR expands with two senior staff, Georgie Zonneveld and Harry Willis as PR Directors. The pair will work across Special’s lifestyle accounts.
The Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ) are marking the milestone of their 50th Annual PRINZ Awards, they are delighted to announce 45 finalists from across 16 categories for 2024.
Special had a standout evening at the APAC Effie Awards, clinching three gold awards.
The finalists for this year’s PRINZ Awards have been announced, with 32 outstanding entries making the cut out of a total of 113 submissions.
The 2023 Spikes Asia Awards announced DDB Group Aotearoa and Special as recipients of Grand Prix and Special Awards respectively.
From being awarded a PR Lion at Cannes, to welcoming new team members, Kelly Grindle of Special PR reflects on a winner of a year.
Claire Bradbourne has been appointed by Special Group New Zealand to guide global growth.
Special Group will soon be putting its mark on the ‘100% Pure New Zealand’ campaign after Tourism New Zealand appointed the agency to work on a project for it.
Over the weekend Colenso BBDO and Special Group took home respective awards at the APAC Effies in Singapore. Colenso was named runner-up Agency of the Year and both agencies contributed to a haul of five gold, one silver, and four bronze gongs.
In the wake of losing one of its founding partners Rob Jack and the 2degrees work, Special Group has kicked off 2018 by being named Campaign Brief New Zealand Agency of the Year. Not only is it a sign of the innovation it’s giving to clients with its design-thinking, it shows how that thinking is being applied to the agency itself. We talk to executive creative director and founder Tony Bradbourne, creative director and founder Heath Lowe, and managing partner Michael Redwood about the last 10 years, the challenges it’s overcome and how it’s maintaining its momentum.
2degrees, Samsung, Holden and Scapegrace by Rogue Society Distilling Co show us how it’s done.
Special Group has launched its latest round of Smirnoff billboards as part of the ‘Pure Potential’ campaign.
Before we shut down our computers and leave the StopPress comment section unattended (to a degree) over the Christmas/New Year break, we take a look at the highs and lows from the last 365 days with the top 10 StopPress stories.
Colenso BBDO took home New Zealand creative agency of the year while FCB Media won New Zealand media agency of the year at the awards held in Singapore.
Special Group has appointed Rory Gallery to the position of head of strategy.
Last night, Auckland’s Langham Hotel was taken over by advertising and marketing folk eager to celebrate the country’s most effective marketing campaigns at the 2017 NZ Effie Awards. Near 200 entries had been whittled down to 100 finalists before the best of the best were invited to the stage to bask in bronze, silver and gold. Here’s the low down of who won what.
After 167 years in business, TSB’s undergone a customer-driven makeover by shortening its name alongside a redesigning logo. To launch its new identity, the bank’s rolled out a new advertising campaign via Special Group and Finch.
Only seven months after retaining Special Group as its lead creative agency, 2degrees has now confirmed that it has parted ways with the independent shop.
After 10 years with Special Group, creative partner Rob Jack has announced his departure.