A crowd of around 200 media & music industry people turned out in Auckland last week for the 2015 edition of The RadioShow – an annual event organised by the radio industry to showcase NZ artists.
OMD/Colenso’s Pepsi site wins at Yahoo Awards
The Pepsi ON campaign by OMD and Colenso BBDO has won top digital honours in the 2014 Yahoo New Zealand Digital Strategy Awards.
Arrivals & Departures
Analytics shop Datalicious has appointed Kasmira Sewpershad as the manager for its New Zealand business. Previously, Sewpershad was interactive account manager at MediaWorks.
Why Toronto Star nixed digital paywall & P1 promos
PHD flies the Gold Coast into AIA
Baggage Carousel One at Auckland Airport was recently transformed into a giant interactive game by PHD Group and Gold Coast Tourism, with one lucky Air New Zealand flight experiencing a “New Zealand first” with the Lucky Luggage campaign.
Adman makes funnyman finals
Stunts focus for CAANZ breakfast forum
ANZ Bank head of corporate marketing & sponsorship Sue McGregor, with Sporstbet Australia head of communications Ben Hawes will address adland – and showcase their best work – at the next instalment of the CAANZ PREScom Champion Speaker Series. Sportsbet is Australia’s biggest corporate bookmaker.
Varsity challenge
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AUT has ended its long partnership with Consortium, and will now work with a number of agencies on a project basis.
Arrivals & Departures
St John taps MediaWorks exec: MediaWorks group head of communications Rachel Lorimer has resigned to take up the role of head of communications with St John.
Colenso’s K9FM takes a bow-wow at One Show
Colenso BBDO/Proximity was the best-performed NZ agency at The One Show Awards, held Friday night (NZ time) in New York City. DDB (Bronze and two Merits), Y&R (Merit), O&M (Merit) and Special Group (Merit) also snatched a small share of the limelight.