Tickets for the 2016 Axis Awards went on sale yesterday. Tickets cost $235. Also, CAANZ wants to remind readers to check out the Axis Agency Challenge (the link follows).
Transtasman mobile rising fast
Mobile leads the way in Australasian market growth in Q4 2015, according to the latest quarterly report from TubeMogul, a leading Sydney-based US-owned enterprise software company for digital branding.
Jungle opens in NZ, taps star TVC team
Acclaimed commercials director Steve Saussey and producer Yolande Dewey have joined forces with Sydney-based Jungle, which has also opened new offices in New Zealand.
Arrivals & Departures: KPEX taps Richard Thompson, Instillery x 3, PubMatic hires ANZ rep
Richard Thompson has been appointed ceo of the Kiwi Premium Advertising Exchange (KPEX), a local advertising exchange service established last year in joint partnership by Fairfax Media, MediaWorks, NZME and TVNZ.
Facebook Instant Articles goes global
Facebook has announced that Instant Articles will be open to all publishers globally in April. “We’re excited to announce that on April 12 at Facebook’s F8 conference, we will be opening up the Instant Articles program to all publishers—of any size, anywhere in the world,” says San Francisco-based product manager Josh Roberts in a release.
Bullseye!
Spark PR & Activate has produced an adidas NZ video of Wellington Phoenix soccer star Roly Bonevacia demonstrating his remarkable kicking accuracy – for a social campaign featuring similar videos from Özil, Oscar, Alli, and Zidane.
Ad-block fans launch social solution
“We are InfluencerHQ and we are a five-person start up running out of Venture Up (A startup accelerator based in Wellington for the top young entrepreneurs in New Zealand),” writes Omer Hazer, who has put his neck on the line to tell agencies – via M+AD – how much he loves ad-blocker software.
Special’s Oz branch key to Bell win
Bell Tea & Coffee Company has appointed Special Group as its creative agency across all its tea and coffee brands – on both sides of the Tasman.
Marsden Inch salutes true grit
Media Design School Adschool students Nick Edmonds and Hannah Dear have won the Marsden Inch annual MDS scholarship, recognising outstanding, emerging creative talent.
Spark plugs in phone box EV charging stations
Goat Farm CD Vaughn Davis, who’s been doing creative work for Spark for some time, was tapped to star in a test drive of the company’s phone-box electric car charging stations. That’s him – with comedian/podcaster Tim Batt – in the video (which was shot by Spark in-house).
