Zenith Optimedia has added business manager Andrea Glidden and senior planner/buyer Henry Rowley to its team, as well as Tasmin Wheeler to a media assistant role. 

The Marketing Association has issued more details for the 2014 TVNZ NZ Marketing Awards. The event will be held at the Langham on Thursday 28 August – the entry deadline is 5pm on Friday 23 May. The MA also unveiled an extended late entries deadline (“at a nominal fee”) to 5pm, Friday 20 May.

JWT Auckland has developed a series of thought-provoking headlines to gently encourage people to put work aside to focus on family, friends, fine food, conversation and drinking good wine, as part of a campaign to re-introduce the respected Sacred Hills Vineyard brand to the modern wine drinker.

O&M has appointed Anne Boothroyd as creative group head, partnering with the agency’s other creative group head Darran Wong Kam.

Last month, just two days before the receivers swept unannounced into AdMedia owner Mediaweb, editor David Gapes and designer Chris Grimstone inked a deal completing their purchase of a significant AdMedia database.