The final handshake between CAANZ and the person who will emcee next week’s Beacon Awards has yet to take place – but sponsorship & events manager Natasha Stichbury says she expects to reveal all in the next 48 hours (watch this space).
TVNZ, SKY can’t agree – so popular channel fails
After nearly five years broadcasting on Sky Channel 017, TVNZ Heartland will finish up in seven weeks – on Sunday 31 May.
OMD, PHDiQ make the cut in London
Five NZ entries – four of them from OMD – have been named as finalists in the International Festival of Media in London. PHDiQ Auckland also made the cut.
Birthday guests splice the mainsail
Billboard/bus advertising company Go Media celebrated its first birthday last week on a floating nightclub out on the Hauraki Gulf. “It was one of the best local media vendor parties yet,” according to a Visitor from Hawkes Bay.
Clio raids The One Club
The Clio Awards has lured The One Club managing director Emily Isovitsch to the role of Clio executive director, replacing Nicole Purcell, who is now the president of Clio. Both big awards shows are based in New York City, and both celebrate advertising & design creativity.
DDB’s SKY trio through at One Show
DDB New Zealand has made the shortlist in the Film category at the 42nd One Show Awards in New York for SKY TV’s The Journey Starts Here in Consumer Television: 60 Second – Campaign.
Try-hard ZB ad a fail?
We have a lot of time for Mike Hosking. He’s smart, witty, quick, hard-working, and often compulsive viewing. But his presentation of this treacly, gloomy, faux-sincere, try-hard new ad for Newstalk ZB – the station’s first TVC for 10 years – is awful.
Another global show taps Kiwi judge
The youth-oriented New York Festivals Torch Awards has confirmed an earlier M+AD report (in February) that former Whybin\TBWA Auckland CD Lisa Fedyszyn will be one of just eight judges for this year’s awards. Fedyszyn – already a judge at The NY Festivals main competition as well as the London International Awards – will work alongside legendary admen like JWT’s Matt Eastwood on the Torch jury.
Chris Sisarich shows new artworks in Sydney
Auckland-based Film Construction director Chris Sisarich tomorrow opens his multi-sensory exhibition of photography, video and sound in Sydney.
NZ Geographic adds 668,000 students to its archive
The New Zealand Geographic Archive, including every issue ever published, has now connected New Zealand’s 668,000 students to the service. The deal was struck with the Ministry of Education – on the strength of the archive already available since 2013 to print subscribers and public libraries – and facilitated by the EPIC Consortium, a sort of Pharmac for electronic resources.
