House of Travel has narrowed down its creative agency pitch to just two – Contagion and Colenso BBDO.
Ice cream can get you laid (among other things)
At the start of summer Tip Top and Colenso launched a series of social experiments to find out if Feeling Tip Top makes everything better. The results are now in – over 1 million Kiwis were involved, and Tip Top sales rose 14% (watch the video).
Back to the future
Y&R, working with Weta Digital, has produced an emotional creative campaign – as part of National Road Safety Week – for road safety charity Brake. The aim is to encourage New Zealanders to think about the potential lifelong cost of their decisions on the road.
Fairfax Media unveils senior editorial team
Fairfax Media has today confirmed its new editorial leadership team, as part of a transformation of its newsrooms aimed at enhancing local and national journalism across digital and print.
Arrivals & Departures
Film Commission man joins Exposure: Multi-faceted collective Exposure International has appointed a new longform producer, Daniel Story.
Saatchi unveils global art museum brand
Saatchi & Saatchi Design and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery have released details of a new global art museum brand brand as the New Plymouth institution prepares to open its doors with the Len Lye Centre in July.
The kids are all right
Everybody knows that little kids today are way smarter than their parents – especially around digital devices. So Hyundai and Shine are taking us into familiar territory in their latest Hyundai TVC, a charming spot that illustrates the gulf between them and us with such effect that smiles of recognition are breaking out nightly in family homes all over the […]
Clemenger merges shopping shops
Clemenger Group’s merger of shopper marketing agencies Raydar and Clemenger Shop was accomplished without redundancies. The merger comes two years after the Shop division was launched, and will see the staff of six leave the Colenso office on College Hill and join the 25 employees at Raydar in Grafton.
Spikes tap Garrett & Grasse
Spikes Asia 2015 has announced its call for entries, and unveiled the 12 senior ad people who will preside over the juries. Colenso BBDO ceo Nick Garrett has been appointed as president of the Creative Effectiveness jury president, while Curious Film’s Peter Grasse, who has strong links to NZ and is well known throughout the region, will wrangle the Film Craft […]
True & Fish make the A section
Air NZ’s new surf-themed safety video is already a global hit, just days after it was unleashed on the web. But who knows what the value is of the unprecedented two full pages of A-section coverage it received in yesterday’s NZ Herald?
