Just two Kiwis have been named for jury service at September’s Spikes Asia – Colenso MD Nick Garrett and Y&R CD Gavin Siakimotu. (Ten Aussies were appointed.)
APN Outdoor lights up its digi-billboard web
APN Outdoor has unveiled New Zealand’s first digital billboard network. “This comes after two years of planning, development and technological research into perfecting the world’s first network of this magnitude and sophistication and integrates the country’s first digital billboard launched in Queen St last year,” said APNO general manager Phil Clemas.
Val Morgan shows off ‘game-changing’ measurement platform
Val Morgan has released details of its new cinema advertising platform, CineTAM, powered by an 80,000-strong loyalty membership base.
DDB Sydney taps Kiwi ‘smart-arse’ as MD
Former Telecom NZ senior executive Kieren Cooney, who was famously called a “smart-arse” last year by an Australian Senator, has been appointed managing director of DDB Group Sydney.
OMD goes back to school
The team at OMD Auckland spent yesterday giving back to the community through the agency’s annual Do Good Day. A group of 70 staff volunteered their time to help paint Blockhouse Bay’s Glenavon School, landscape its gardens and create porcelain wall mosaics.
‘Nuanced’ Saatchi campaign tackles non-voters
Saatchi & Saatchi and the Electoral Commission have launched a campaign to answer the large number of non-voters who say they don’t feel like their vote is worth anything.
Adshel goes looking for love
Adshel has created a new trade campaign that aims to entice ad people to take part in a zany 12-question quiz about their love of advertising.
Powered by the people
Colenso BBDO and Finch have shot a crowd-sourced TVC to celebrate VW’s 60th anniversary in the NZ market.
BC&F, Colenso, Clems, DDB, FCB straddle world Effie charts
Barnes Catmur & Friends is the third most effective independent agency in the world, according to the 2014 Effie Effectiveness Index, just out.
All in the family
FCB has imagined up a Favourite Child Detector digital program – to help sell the launch of US mockumentary-style sitcom Modern Family on Prime TV.