Saatchi & Saatchi and Clemenger BBDO Wellington have each picked up Gold Lions in the Cyber category overnight at Cannes. And Colenso BBDO and Y&R both scored Bronze Lions.
New Zealand is enjoying unusually rare success at Cannes, scoring 46 Lions so far (three Grand Prix, 13 Golds, 16 Silvers, and 15 Bronze Lions) and easily outpointing our pals across the Ditch.
Grey Singapore’s I Sea app to save refugees from drowning, which Aussie site Mumbrella says was called out as a fake by technology experts yesterday, has been removed from the Apple Store and criticised by the client for not working, but has been awarded at the Cannes Lions earlier this week.
iHeartRadio is venturing into the concert arena again, signing award-winning American pop power group Fifth Harmony to perform a free live concert on Friday 15 July at the Auckland Town Hall’s Concert Chamber.
The Bank of New Zealand has appointed TVNZ ceo Kevin Kenrick to its board of directors. Kenrick will join the board on Friday 1 July as a non-executive director, replacing one of two departing directors, former Fletcher Group executive Susan Macken and founding Landcare Research chief Andy Pearce.
Global youth media company Vice has signed a deal with Sky TV to bring its new “critically acclaimed” 24-hour channel Viceland to New Zealand later this year.
Colenso BBDO has won the Outdoor Grand Prix overnight in Cannes, capping a big 24 hours for New Zealand that included three Outdoor Gold Lions, five Silvers and five Bronzes.