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Wells enlisted for national directorial duties at Y&R—UPDATED
Y&R has appointed Jason Wells as its national creative/ideas director, a newly created role that covers both the Auckland and Wellington Y&R offices.
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Gregg and Hammersley to head up Y&R’s new digi-agency
Y&R New Zealand’s digital and interactive specialist arm VML@Y&R is now up and running, with Nigel Hammersley and Michael Gregg, two of New Zealand’s most experienced digital practitioners, taking charge of the newest addition to the global network.
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Creative directors dropping like flies as Davis departs Y&R
Vaughn Davis
Parnell’s creative stocks have taken a battering in the last couple of days: Saatchi & Saatchi announced yesterday that its executive creative director Dylan Harrison was offski after just seven months in the job. And Y&R Auckland’s creative director Vaughn Davis is also leaving after ten years with the agency.
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Bolly judges fall into deep e-swoon over Special Group’s ‘Living Office’ banner
It received a fantastic response from StopPress readers when it went live and, not surprisingly, Special Group, Exposure and Salt Interactive’s ‘Living Office’ banner for Orcon has also found favour with the judges of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s September Bolly Award.
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Y&R NZ unaffected by Aussie management shift, merger with JWT ‘not going to happen’
Howcroft and Marsh
Nigel Marsh, the chief executive of Y&R Brands Australia and New Zealand, will soon step down from the role. He will be replaced by Russel Howcroft, the national chief executive of George Patterson Y&R in Australia and the man Y&R New Zealand’s chief executive John Ramage reports to.
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Fairfax dishes out oversized boarding passes to four Kiwi up-and-comers
Fairfax Media is the toast of at least four towns today after the winners of the Fairfax Young Lions Cyber and Media competitions were announced.
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Interactive MetService campaign takes out Bolly Award
Claire Stapleton and Duncan Munro from Y&R Wellington have taken out the Bolly Award for their Metservice campaign ‘You Can’t Change the Weather’, impressing the boffins with a digital execution that allowed punters a chance to play God.
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Strawedband internet explained
Who it’s for: Vector (working with Y&R), which is trying to drum up support for fibre optic cabling and get fibre to Auckland doors so users will be able to download illegal movies at speeds 50 times faster than current levels.
Why we like it: Quirky …
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Indy iron envelope entrant takes the biscuit
A DIY envelope made of steel and copper by independent entrant Barak Yahav has taken home the Best In Show prize at this year’s Art of The Envelope awards.
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Aim and Y&R in room with Echos
Big congrats (or in Kiwispeak “yeah, not bad, mate”) to two NZ agencies who won trophies at the 2009 International Echo Awards, hosted by Jay Leno in San Diego this week. The Echos, run by the US Direct Marketing Association, are like the global version of NZ Marketing Association’s …
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EFFIE finalists announced
The NZ EFFIE Awards finalists have been announced. Coming up trumps this year is DDB with 10 nominees. Colenso BBDO has nine but counting entries by Clemenger BBDO and Colenso & AIM Proximity makes the group total 14. Saatchi fares well with nine offerings in the ring. There are also multiple …
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BNZ gets sugar hit
See ya Y&R, hello Sugar. BNZ has appointed Sugar as its new agency with their media partner SparkPHD.
Even though Y&R have been delivered some “great work” in the last four years, BNZ head of brand, Jo Kelly, says “we’re entering a new phase of our business …