AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has made changes to this year’s Beacon Awards schedule – and reports only positive responses to the online judging proposals.
Free self-learning course
AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council is inviting industry practitioners to register for the Google Ads Certification Programme – a free, self-learning programme.
Dream come true
AUCKLAND, Today: Downtown comms shop Anthem has this morning announced its co-founders will assume new roles – Jane Sweeney to executive chair and Carolyn Kerr to managing director.
Shuttle Mission
NELSON, Tuesday: Ben Seleen from the Nelson NZ HQ of global mobile creative outfit Shuttlerock writes. “We take existing creative assets and transform them into mobile optimised videos. (I’ve followed M+AD for quite some time now and think you guys are awesome!)
Poetry in Motion
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Advertising podcast Truth and Soul Incorporated, created by BC&F Dentsu co-founder/ECD Paul Catmur, is back with two new podcast episodes designed to fill your isolation hours with something other than eating, drinking and bickering with your family about what to watch on Netflix.
Primed & rarin’
AUCKLAND, Today: M+AD, believe it or not, is a News Media Essential Service (like the newsrooms at Stuff, the Herald, TVNZ & TV3) and we’ll be continuing unabated for the foreseeable future.
Melting Pot
LAS VEGAS, Monday: Trump may be at sea – but the Thrive Cannabis Marketplace, the largest independently owned cannabis retailer in Nevada, has enacted a delivery-only business model to comply with new Covid-19 public health mandates – and retained Las Vegas-based creative agency Artisans On Fire to create an ad campaign.
Female focus
SEATTLE, Monday: Getty Images has launched the #ShowUs Grant in partnership with Dove to provide financial support and mentorship to female identifying and non-binary artists who are committed to authentically representing women in commercial photography.
High Calibre
AUCKLAND, Today: An “exceptionally high” calibre of candidates – combined with the desire to recognise the broadening shape of the NZ print industry – has resulted in PrintNZ naming an unprecedented 12 Apprentices of the Year finalists for 2020.
