oOh! New Zealand is to expand into eight more shopping centres on both the North Island and South Islands with its state-of-the-art digital signage.
Arrivals & Departures: Contagion Media expands
The numbers in the media department at Freemans Bay full-service agency Contagion have risen by two, with the promotion of Suzie Thompson and the hiring of Ryan Jordan as Joint Heads of Media.
#SMCAKL & Chill
Amar Trivedi reports from the latest Social Media Club Auckland event: Around 300 movers and shakers ditched their ‘binge watch of choice’ to learn about the changing entertainment landscape and the role of social media within it at SMCAKL on Wednesday.
Goodfolk explores our shared Anzac history for Māori TV
The blood spilled in war is something all of Aotearoa shares, regardless of our own personal histories. As the primary broadcaster of Anzac Day content each year, Māori Television wanted to get people thinking about that shared history, and Anzac Day’s relationship to their own lives. Creative agency Goodfolk answered the brief with a compelling short-form documentary, The Blood We Share.
Arrivals & Departures: Coke taps Neil Waka
Coca-Cola (NZ) Amatil has appointed former television frontman Neil Waka to lead its communications team as corporate affairs manager.
Deaf dancer in starring role for FCB
FCB New Zealand has tapped a profoundly deaf hip-hop dancer to star in a campaign the agency has launched to introduce Australia & NZ to Sony’s Sony new Extra Bass SRS-XB3 speakers.
US tech giant expands to NZ
New York-based ad effectiveness software supplier Tremor Video has acquired Australian-based TVN, a leading provider of programmatic video advertising solutions in the Asia-Pacific region. The NZ office will be run by vice-president Josh Ismin, who has relocated to Auckland. Joining him in NZ as general manager will be former TVNZ online sales manager Yael Milbank.
Ideas to save the planet
DDB NZ has unveiled a celebratory global campaign – running out of DDB shops in more than 90 countries – to promote an initiative encouraging ideas on how to better the planet.
Kiwi PR shines in Canada
NZ has two entries through to the finals of the Toronto-based global PR show, the 2016 Comm Prix Awards. Heather Claycomb of Hamilton shop HMC (with Child Matters) is there with The Evolution and success of Buddy Day, and so is Spark PR & Activate’s Mikaila Hutchinson for the TRESemmé 365 Project.
Colenso, Y&R, Barnes Catmur strike Gold in Singapore
NZ agencies, led by a treble Gold from Colenso/Proximity, scored well at the APAC Effies held Friday night in Singapore. Y&R and Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu won a Gold apiece.
