Colenso creative chairman Nick Worthington has been appointed to the high-profile Film jury for the 2016 One Show Awards.
NZ, Auckland, Colenso in top 20
NZ is ranked 14th most awarded country in the world by the Cannes Lions 2015 Global Creativity Report, released overnight. The result sees NZ slip three places– down from 11th last year.
New categories for 2016
New awards reflecting the rapidly changing media landscape are included in the line‐up of categories for the 2016 Canon Media Awards.
Arrivals & Departures: Recruiter grows, new face at digital shop
Sydney & Auckland global search firm Hourigan International has appointed Natasja Barclay as managing partner and Gillian Gibson as leadership consultant in the Auckland office. (A release mix-up yesterday caused M+AD to run a very old release in error – Mark Jenner left Hourigan in April to join Interbrand NZ as managing director. And he’s still there! M+AD and Hourigan regret the error.)
String Theory taps Argentina for labour of love
Argentine art & motion studio Plenty has collaborated with Auckland brand agency String Theory to create a short film, We Need To Talk About Alice, to raise awareness of charity book website Good Books. The short film coincides with the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
AWARD NZ picks its winners
Jemma Titheridge has been named New Zealand’s top AWARD School student at a graduation ceremony at Little Easy in Ponsonby. Second place was awarded to Robert Chapman, with Amy-Rose Lynch taking third place.
New site mines best of Bauer
Bauer Media has launched WomensWeekly.co.nz, a new online brand bringing together content from the people behind some of New Zealand’s most popular and influential magazines. The new site draws on content not only from New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, The Australian Women’s Weekly (NZ Edition), NEXT, Good Health Choices, North & South and (where relevant) New Zealand Listener, but also exclusive online video and lifestyle news content updated daily.
Two big shows come together in 2016
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD) will increase its presence at Sydney’s annual Semi Permanent festival of creativity and design from May 2016, in a collaboration that will introduce an annual AWARD showcase to the three-day event and host the annual AWARD Awards ceremony as a new focal point of the festival.
Mobile ad shop raises $2.2m, lists on NXT
The share offer from Snakk Media Limited (SNK) successfully raised $2.2 million, including $0.7 million of oversubscriptions – meaning Snakk will today proceed with its listing on the NZ Stock Exchange’s NXT market (for small and mid-sized businesses).
Talent galore lined up for NZ Web Fest
Social talent, branded content, web TV and indie video will collide at the inaugural NZ Web Fest (held in conjunction with over 40 Web Fests around the world) to be held at Auckland’s Media Design School on Saturday 7 November.
