AUCKLAND, Today: Emirates Team New Zealand has selected JCDecaux as its exclusive digital outdoor billboards supplier as we prepare to defend the America’s Cup.
TBWA\ taps David Parkinson
AUCKLAND, Monday: TBWA\NZ has looked outside the ad industry to hire David Parkinson as GM of digital & innovation, to drive the rapid growth of TBWA\NZ Group digital offerings and deliver transformation initiatives.
Hubspot taps Hype & Dexter
AUCKLAND, Today: Automation agency Hype & Dexter has been named one of the first HubSpot agencies in the world to achieve ‘Elite’ status, following its naming as HubSpot APAC Partner of the Year in 2019.
Westfield’s Xmas (Updated)
SYDNEY, Today: Aussie agency Sibling (a bespoke agency set up by WPP AUNZ) has created a new Christmas campaign – The Night (way) before Christmas –for Transtasman shopping centre chain Westfield.
A Business Revolution
AUCKLAND, Today: Hugh Rennie’s long-awaited book on the history of a Kiwi financial institution – The first two decades of National Business Review, 1970-1991 – is out now.
Lift for 10,000 Kiwi Kids
AUCKLAND, Monday: DDB’s CRM arm Track Aotearoa has developed a new advertising programme for KidsCan, which is dealing with an extra 10,000 children needing their help in the wake of Covid-19.
Vale Chris Jagusch
CHRISTCHURCH, Today: It is with sadness M+AD reports the September 5 death of senior media executive Chris Jagusch. Few details were available at press time (including the circumstances of his passing, his age, and his descendants).
A Place in the Sun
AUCKLAND, Today: Waiheke Island Tourism has appointed NSPR as its first PR agency. There was no pitch.
All Together Now …
AUCKLAND, Today: Indie media agency Together has appointed leading data and analytics practitioner Torsten Stolt to the new role of data & analytics director.
