SYDNEY, Today: London-based WPP plc, majority shareholder of WPP AUNZ, has sent an unsolicited proposal to acquire all of the ordinary shares in WPP AUNZ that it does not already own – at a price of A$0.55 per share in cash.
Reimagined – ’Twas the Night Before Xmas
AUCKLAND, Today: Integrated comms agency Pead – working alongside production house Swish, media agency MediaCom, and shopper specialists Raydar – has launched Anchor’s Christmas campaign.
Digipost future unclear
AUCKLAND, Today: A 55-year-old woman, who police believe may have been the victim of a homicide, was the owner and sole shareholder of Digipost, a one-time pillar of TV post in NZ.
Tā Mātou Pono | Our Truth
AUCKLAND, Today: Stuff has this morning published the results of an historic investigation into itself, and issued a public apology for the way the media organisation has portrayed Māori from its first editions to now.
Tradies Online
AUCKLAND, Friday: New Zealander Carl Allan has today launched Pedestal, a Perth-based global business platform providing a one-stop website & online marketing hub specifically for tradies.
New poems hit streets of Aotearoa
AUCKLAND, Thursday: Phantom Billstickers has curated a selection of original works by Kiwi poets Becky Woodall, Eamonn Tee, Simon Sweetman, Ruby Porter, Steve Thomas and David Eggleton.
Nielsen got it wrong
AUCKLAND, Today: A lecture about M+AD’s “duty of care” and 200 words of pure PR-speak was the best we could get out of Nielsen Sydney when we sought answers to their “request” for us to publish a corrected version of its latest NZ Magazines Toplines graphic.
Pressie Golds for Special, Fuse, TBWA, Eleven, Mango
AUCKLAND, Friday: New Zealand’s PR, brand experience, events and social media professionals gathered in the heart of Ponsonby at The Sapphire Room last night to recognise the best campaigns from the past 12 months, at the third Comms Council Pressie Awards.
Campaign Asia 2020 AoY (Updated)
SINGAPORE, Thursday: Special Group AUNZ’s two-nation network dominated the Campaign Asia Australia-NZ Agency of the Year Awards. DDB Aotearoa (no AU involvement) also took home serious metal.
Pead borrows Amsterdam’s red-lights for BMW 4 Series Coupé launch
AUCKLAND, Thursday: BMW has collaborated with integrated marketing agency Pead to stage an activation in The Viaduct inspired by Amsterdam’s nightlife – to celebrate the launch of the BMW 4 Series Coupé. The show-and-tell opens at 1pm today (Thursday), and runs till Friday.
