Botany Town Centre has appointed Tanya Chadha to the role of marketing manager within the centre management team. Chadha is a marketing professional with more than six years of experience in retail and a BCom (Hons) in Management & Marketing. She had been the centre’s assistant marketing manager for two years prior to her promotion.
QMS turns on 39 digital sites in Auckland
QMS has switched on The Commuter Network (in partnership with Auckland Transport), a digital network that features 39 fully animated digital sites located across the Auckland transport network – including the Britomart.
Colenso, Spur, Dynamo deliver Spark’s summer
Holidaymakers around New Zealand having been enjoying free wifi this summer, courtesy of Spark’s WiFi Campervans at the best beaches. Colenso BBDO and Spur worked on the activations.
The NZTA blitz
The NZTA stormed the Top10 in January, with a remarkable three-telecampaigns catching the eye of the drivers of NZ. The newest of the trio – Thank You For Your Speed – demos effectively the NZTA’s new, positively slanted, switch in campaign direction.
Where web/film/music converge
The celebrated SXSW festival – which began in Austin, Texas to celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries – is reaching out to NZ and Australia.
Spark set to buy telco minnow
Spark has filed notice of its intention to make a full takeover offer for 100% of the fully paid ordinary shares in TeamTalk Limited at an offer price of 80 cents per share.
Gunn taps world-beating Colenso, Y&R
NZ agencies Y&R and Colenso BBDO are again making headlines offshore with two of our best ads from last year. This time the focus comes from UK’s The Gunn Report 2016– just out overnight.
Arrivals & Departures: GM exits Freeview, Sky team grows, Marketo taps COO
Freeview has announced the pending departure of its long-serving general manager, Sam Irvine, who is leaving in March to take up the role of chief operating officer at Isthmus Group.
D&AD signs another Kiwi
D&AD London has engaged six creative superstars as headline speakers for the D&AD Festival in April. The list features LA-based Kiwi radio DJ Zane Lowe (son of Radio Hauraki co-founder Derek Lowe).
Federer-Nadal helium ad funny – and phony!
Brisbane radio station Hot 91 appeared to get the context confused when they posted a very amusing video of Roger Federer & Rafael Nadal trying to shoot an ad for a charity tennis match while they were – allegedly – stoned on helium.