The caravan-loving cricket tragics that comprise the Alternative Commentary Collective are back in bad suits for their third series of international cricket, and will be on the boundary ropes for the Black Caps’ home games at the 2015 edition of Cricket World Cup.
Barnes Catmur’s Hit Man cometh
Barnes Catmur & Friends have reinvented heart disease as a shadowy serial killer for the TVC currently screening (and also running on radio, billboards, buses, street posters and digital).
In Good we trust
K Road indie agency Goodfolk has started the year on the good foot, with a pair of significant wins. Prior to Christmas, Goodfolk won the pitch for a global internal engagement campaign for Fletcher Building, who have upwards of 19,000 employees worldwide. In late January, they were also confirmed as Auckland Council’s digital communications and engagement agency, in partnership with digital developers Phosphor.
Deadlines looming

Entries for the CAANZ Beacon Awards (formerly the Media Awards) close at 4pm next Wednesday (February 18). There’s also a 48-hour extension available – for $515+gst ($265 entry + $250 late fee).
Arrivals & Departures
Two new appointments at NZME.: Tracey Fox has been promoted into a new role leading a centralised group creative team. Previously, she has been general manager marketing NZME. Radio (for the past two years), overseeing marketing of all their radio brands through a time of major transformation.
#smcakl returns for 2015
Auckland’s Social Media Club (#smcakl) kicks off its first get-together of 2015 next week (Wednesday 18 February) from 6 pm to 8pm @ Vodafone HQ, 20 Viaduct Harbour Avenue – and all M+AD readers are invited.
Paying it forward

DDB & Westac banish the paranoia
Westpac’s latest campaign from DDB aims to demonstrate the security of CardGuard contactless payments – even for the most paranoid among us. And Mr Tinfoil sure is paranoid!
Colenso fires up the newspaper league
Arrivals & Departures
Senior staff appointed at OMD Group: Two senior staff have joined OMD on College Hill, with Georgina McKinnon appointed as head of Fuse and Jono Sorenson coming in as account director on Air New Zealand.