AUCKLAND, Today: The Marketing Association is hawking tickets for its upcoming Marketing Law Workshop in November – with an all-female cast of facilitators.
99 boosts performance
AUCKLAND, Monday: 99 has taken on comms consultant Nina Bialostocki as director of performance. 99 MD Troy Fuller said: “Nina brings over 25 years of experience in media, advertising, consulting & marketing communications both locally and internationally. Her expertise in creating strategies using technology and data will add even more value to 99’s offering.
IDC’s Sacha Stejko shoots gender equality campaign for TBWA Singapore
SINGAPORE, Today: NZ-based Ukrainian photographer Sacha Stejko travelled to Poland to shoot a new global campaign for TBWA Singapore client Standard Chartered Bank. “Gender,” Stejko says, “shouldn’t be a barrier to progress”.
Botab 2019 – sequins + sass
AUCKLAND, Today: The glitter has finally finished falling on Botab 2019. The 12th instalment, brought to us by Flying Fish and the Comms Council, played to a sold-out house at a sellout with at least 500 there to witness “a brilliant display of sequins, feathers and a lot of sass” (juicy quote courtesy of the Comms Council’s Amal Siddique).
Boyd PR’s 4th kids’ chopper-rescue book
AUCKLAND, Today: A magical stingray living in the Mangawhai Estuary is at the centre of the latest story book adventure released by Auckland-based Boyd PR to raise funds for the Northland Rescue Helicopter.
Botab charity tee debuts
AUCKLAND, Today: Official Botab charity MusicHelps, which aims to use the power of music to help and heal New Zealanders in need, has created NZ Music T-Shirt Day. MusicHelps GM Peter Dickens unveiled the event on stage at Botab on Thursday.
Rugby was the winner
AUCKLAND, Today: Special Group NZ created a simple graphic may-the-best-team-win execution for Guinness to craft a press, street poster and digital campaign to ramp up the drama before Saturday’s knockout quarter-final Ireland and the all-conquering ABs.
Stanley St honcho exits
AUCKLAND, Friday: Stanley St marketing director Huia Ngapo – a conduit between the agency and the trade media – has resigned, just a day after ECDs Lisa Fedyszyn & Jonathan McMahon also called it a day.
McIvor & Kightley remember TV3
Oscar Kightley (a TV3 survivor, now a Sunday News columnist): “Those were the days when the vibe between TV3 and TVNZ was like the Bloods and the Crips without the drive-by shootings.
Tap and go
AUCKLAND, Today: New Zealanders are now able to make a tap-and-go donation during their daily commute following the launch of the country’s first bus shelter donation panel by leading out-of-home company oOh!media.
