NAPIER, Today: Mission Estate Winery has appointed Jo Pearson – Hawkes Bay born and raised – as their marketing manager.
Out-of-home returns for Maori Language Week
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: New Zealanders are again being encouraged to use te reo Māori with the support of OMANZ and the wider industry.
VMLY&R + Goodoil shoot Rabobank agri spots
WELLINGTON, Wednesday: Food & agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank has launched a new television advertising campaign via VMLY&R Wellington, highlighting how online deposits with the bank are exclusively used to fund New Zealand’s food & agricultural producers.
MediaWorks-QMS NZ merger a wrap
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: MediaWorks and QMS Media have officially completed their merger, establishing what is one of NZ’s largest multi-platform media companies.
DAN/NZ Rugby/Movember’s silent stand against male suicide
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Dentsu NZ have come up with a novel idea for the NZ Rugby/Movember awareness campaign against male suicide – to put an end to the silence, first engineer a very loud noise from a lot of people!
Smart suit
AUCKLAND, Today: Parnell-based creative agency Studio7 has added Jody McPherson to their team as business director to help cope with what the agency describes as “an exciting growth phase”.
Copyright shadow over Oz gender equality campaign
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Gender equality group Women With Agency has released a promotional campaign – Women Run (which features images of Jacinda Adern) – and immediately ignited a storm about copyright issues in their first commercial.
Digital agency wins diversity gong
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Yellow NZ has won a national award for embracing diversity and inclusion as the cornerstone of its transition strategy as it moved from providing the iconic Yellow Pages into being a digital marketing agency.
Queen’s blessing for ed Gapes
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: M+AD ed David Gapes yesterday officially received his Officer of the NZ Order of Merit award from Governor-General Patsy Reddy at Government House in Epsom.
Colenso ad parodied
AUCKLAND, Last night: Fair Go has delivered a slamming indictment of AMI’s “innocent party” car insurance provisions. And worse, it parodied (at great length) Colenso BBDO’s latest AMI tvc Kindness to illustrate the point made by a complaining viewer.
