Cannes has named nine New Zealanders to juror roles at the 2017 Lions in June. Gender equality also took a step forward with the festival increasing the number of women across all juries to a record 43%.
Creative Data Lions taps Kiwi for jury duty
Lions Innovation, the specialist two-day event taking place as part of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, has appointed NZ-based strategist Jane Stanley as a member of the Creative Data Lions jury.
Women Leading Change shortlister juggles pitch with Hong Kong finals
OMD Auckland’s MD of specialist businesses Jane Stanley has made the shortlist of Campaign Asia-Pacific’s inaugural Women Leading Change Awards in Hong Kong next week. Stanley told M+AD this morning that she’s not sure if she can attend.
Rolling Stone founder sells big stake to Singapore
Just under half of the venerable Rolling Stone magazine has been sold to Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, according to a report in Ad Age. It’s the first time Jann Wenner, the co-founder of the mag, has invited outside investors.
Using Data to challenge NZ’s Alpha Media
By Sophie Radford, Sales Director NZ, Exponential: The announcement that NZME and Fairfax NZ are hoping to merge in order to build a media company to fight off the impact of Google and Facebook, threw the issue of scale back into the spotlight.
Cirkus shoots global Unilever campaign
Just before Christmas 2015, Mullen Lowe Indonesia approached Cirkus to be involved in Unilever’s brand new global campaign for Paddle Pop.
ABs make a racket at Stanley St
Saatchi & Saatchi and Toybox brought All Blacks Sam Cane, Nehe Milner-Skudder, Joe Moody and Julian Savea into the same frame as ASB Classic tennis stars Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki and Bethanie Mattek-Sands for an video now running on social media.
ASB, Saatchi doing sponsorships differently
ASB has released the concluding content around their sponsorship of the Auckland Marathon – and their Run Down Your Rate competition that gave 10 lucky runners the chance to win their marathon time as a two-year fixed home loan interest rate.
Clemenger NZ taps Ogilvy’s Manning, Goodale to take justONE transtasman
The Clemenger Group NZ has unveiled an initiative for a greater focus on its data/direct/loyalty capabilities and resources – as a result, justONE will become the transtasman lead on loyalty programs across the group, effective 1 January.
O&M taps star creative to replace Angus Hennah
Ogilvy & Mather has finally found a replacement for ECD Angus Hennah, who left the agency in November 2014 before joining Special Group as CD in May this year. The new ECD in Stanley St is a real catch – internationally awarded FCB creative Regan Grafton, who takes up the reins in mid-September.
