AUCKLAND, Today: Stuff says its recently launched Back Your Backyard editorial campaign has grown into a movement that’s saving jobs and reviving demand in the tourism industry.
Open Season
AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council is due to issue – today – its call for entries to the 2020 New Zealand Effie Awards.
The Missing Link
AUCKLAND, Today: The Public Relations Institute has now supplied the full winners list from Friday’s PRINZ Awards – missing from the M+AD report because of an email mixup.
Fuseworks + Truescope
WELLINGTON, Today: News tracking firm Fuseworks Media (bases in Wellington, Hawkes Bay & Auckland) has forged a partnership with Sydney-based Truescope founder John Croll to tackle what they’re calling “communicators’ biggest problem” – identifying what matters, and how much it matters.
DAN NZ PR No 1 in Asia
SINGAPORE, Friday: The PR & events team at Dentsu Aegis New Zealand has been named a winner in four categories at the annual PR Awards Asia 2020.
DDB NZ AoY 2020 in AU
SYDNEY, Friday: DDB Group New Zealand was named Agency of the Year at the 2020 virtual AWARD Awards show across the Ditch. DDB NZ also took home three Gold pencils, including two for Lotto LO5T.
The Beacons video
AUCKLAND, Today: As promised, the Comms Council has posted the full 2020 Virtual Beacon Awards video – all 1hr 13mins of it – on YouTube.
Oz 1, NZ 0
AUCKLAND, Today: A group of Australian investors in NZME have engineered the abrupt resignation of chairman Peter Cullinane, shortly before yesterday’s annual shareholders’ meeting.
Housekeeping
AUCKLAND, Today: It was a busy day for the NZ industry yesterday, with two big awards shows – which led to a few number miscounts in our email (the emailed files were beautifully art-directed, but in formats that involve much copying-and-pasting).
