New Zealand, with a total of 20 Lions, finished last week’s Cannes Ad Festival ranked at #12 in the world.
Cool cats callup
MDS AdSchool has answered a global callup on behalf of its female Lions-winning creatives by sending their images and CVs to a new website set up by two UK female creatives.
Blacksand refreshes Kiwi of the Year
TVNZ has called for nominations for the 2016 New Zealander of the Year Awards, getting the message out via a refreshed visual identity, and a new TVC.
Uber-style personal concierge reaches NZ
A new service has opened which aims to make it easier for marketers to target and reach CBD workers with deliveries of product samples and activations. UrbanSherpa managing director Brian Dewill says the marketing applications for the service are wide ranging.
Midas Awards entries open
BKA delivers new league website (updated)
New Zealand Rugby League has teamed with ACC and BKA-Digital Outfitters to launch a new-look website that promotes the “Fundamentals programme for safe and rewarding participation in our game”.
Diamond in the rough
Tonight DDB ceo Justin Mowday will sleep out on the mean streets of Auckland to help raise money for those who are homeless and sleep out every night.
Out the Gobbledegookers
NZ’s best and worst documents and web pages are about to get the treatment from Consumer NZ, which is sponsoring these two categories at the annual Plain English Awards.
This week’s APNO board goes to …
SparkPHD’s Kim Gribble has won the second week of APN Outdoor’s Boards competition, a four-week long campaign programme to promote their premium network of large format, roadside billboards. Pete McRae from IKON and Rachel Stewart from OMD Auckland also picked up prizes.
Fiverr & Getty trim sails for small businesses
Global digital services marketplace Fiverr and Getty Images have unveiled a partnership that aims to put premium creative services in the hands of small and medium businesses (SMBs), empowering them to produce creative once only thought possible for large enterprises. “For the 460,000 NZ small businesses competing against the marketing budgets of larger, better funded rivals, this partnership spells disruption to the creative services agency model,” says Getty Images NZ sales director Arran Birchenough.