Tickets have gone on sale for the 2015 NZDM Awards – to be held at The Langham on Thursday 25 February (don’t be confused by the dates – the winners to be announced in 2016 are being honoured for their work during all of 2015).
Arrivals & Departures: TVNZ hires 2nd comms chief, Google NZ taps a Yank
TVNZ has appointed Emma-Kate Greer as communications manager, working alongside Georgie Hills, who has just returned from parental leave.
Saatchi taps Paul Wilson as Nicky Bell calls it a day
Saatchi & Saatchi has appointed general manager Paul Wilson to the managing director role left vacant yesterday when Nicky Bell announced her intention to leave the agency in March after six years in the top job.
Arrivals & Departures: Promotions at Tangible
Tangible Media has promoted StopPress editor Ben Fahy – a six-year veteran at the company – to the role of publisher/editorial director of Tangible’s business titles Idealog, NZ Retail/The Register and NZ Marketing/Stop Press.
Facebook sweetener for mobile advertisers
Facebook’s Audience Network now includes support for mobile web, enabling 2.5 million Facebook advertisers to reach more of their target audience on mobile devices.
Hard copy deadline looms
CAANZ advises that the hard copy deadline for Axis 2016 is just two days away – at 4pm Friday 29 January.
Arrivals & Departures: Facebook NZ taps Natalia Bell
Facebook NZ has appointed Natalia Bell as a client partner, working across a range of clients in the Travel, Finance, Auto and FMCG categories.
Husband-and-wife creatives in trendspotter mode
Colenso ECD Wayne Pick and Colenso/Proximity CD Kim Pick appear on the same stage at a Marketing Association event next month – the pair will discuss “connecting the dots and picking the trends from bleeding edge to leading edge and mainstream in 2016”.
Arrivals & Departures: Breaking the ice
Leading merino apparel brand Icebreaker has appointed Carla Murphy as chief marketing & strategy officer.
ZO wins Bell media
After a period of sharing the love around several Auckland shops, Bell Tea (now with new management) has appointed ZenithOptimedia as its fulltime media agency.
