London, November 25. – D&AD has launched a new campaign for its 2017 global under-24 competition – the D&AD New Blood Awards. The campaign was created by UK agency The Beautiful Meme, and is designed to spark debate, following suggestions that the gender debate is over.
iHeartRadio presents the hottest ticket in town
iHeartRadio – with a little help from their friends 2degrees – is to feature Kiwi band band The Naked and Famous performing a free live concert on Tuesday 10 January at Auckland’s Logan Campbell Centre as part of the group’s Simple Forms world tour.
Arrivals & Departures: NZME exec quits for MYOB role – replaced by Matt Wilson
NBR Online reports that NZME chief operating officer Carolyn Luey is quitting the company for a role running MYOB’s New Zealand operation.
Arrivals & Departures: Tenfold taps Anna Gervai
Brendon Gleeson, managing director of Newmarket based Tenfold Creative says the agency is thrilled to welcome Anna Gervai back into the fold, as Digital Director.
Arrivals & Departures: Paul Nagy to leave Clems
After 10 years with the Clemenger Group, executive creative director Paul Nagy has resigned from Clemenger BBDO Sydney and will depart in early 2017, according to a report in Australia’s Campaign Brief.
Arrivals & Departures: Leadership changes at Y&R and True
Y&R has announced that Managing Director Steve Kane will leave the agency at the end of the year (he’s joining True – scroll down to next story), replaced by Y&R’s current Head of Planning Jono Key, who’s been promoted to Managing Director, effective in the New Year.
Arrivals & Departures: True snaps up Steve Kane
Grey Lynn indie agency True has appointed Steve Kane as Managing Director to further strengthen the agency’s leadership team.
NZTE ruffles feathers with Aussie agency signing
New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) has put the cat among the pigeons by stepping outside of its home turf, and handing the tender for its $400,000 website redesign to Australian agency DT.
Farewell to a good bloke
M+AD ed David Gapes writes about his lifelong friend Barrie Everard, who died in Auckland last week from a terrible condition that interfered with his balance, ultimately taking his life. Everard was a media pioneer in NZ; a distributor, a feature film producer, entrepreneur, a former chairman of the NZ Film Commission, owner of the Barclay cinema chain, and founder […]
Shine rises from the ashes
Fair Go’s Best Ad of the Year went to an edited version of Shine’s Hyundai Getting Lost on TVNZ 1 on Monday night, bouncing back with a vengeance after being named Worst Ad of the Year just 12 months ago.
