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Additional spring put in publishers’ steps as MPA launches new magazine trade campaign
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There’s no denying the print sector has suffered at the hands of the digital revolution and recession double whammy. But as everyone goes gaga over new technology and predictions about the death of anything that isn’t the internet continue to spew forth, it’s easy to forget that good old-fashioned paper-based publications are still holding on and, in many cases, going great guns. Promoting the vitality of magazines as a medium was the basis of a huge ‘Power of Print’ campaign in the US. And now the Magazine Publishers Association and Y&R have just launched a localised version of this message with a new trade campaign called ‘Magazines Add. Add Magazines’. 

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Creative directors dropping like flies as Davis departs Y&R
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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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Strawedband internet explained
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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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Aim and Y&R in room with Echos
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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
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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
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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 …

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