AUCKLAND, Today: Freemans Bay creative agency String Theory and Good Oil have shot a new brand campaign, Real Life, for NZ home loans provider Pepper Money.
Maccas & Track take out the big one (updated)
AUCKLAND, Today: McDonald’s with agency partners Track NZ were the big winners at the 2019 NZ Direct Marketing Awards, hosted last night by the Marketing Association.
Ritson on marketing: The answer is Yes!
AUCKLAND, Today: Finally, decent coverage of Mark Ritson’s presentation in Auckland last week – thanks to a blog written by Hunch agency’s Michael Goldthorpe.
Nine lives
SYDNEY, Today: NZ news media publishers have scored nine finalist nominations across a range of categories for the 2020 Global Media Awards (run by the International News Media Association, and administered in this part of the world by Australia’s NewsMediaWorks).
Business nous
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: North Shore-based customer intelligence agency Perceptive – part of the Clemenger Group – has hired Michael Stones and Angela Dunn as business directors.
Adman worked for Fred Dobbs
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: More details are emerging about our mystery adman Richard King, who died *recently.
Family comes first
AUCKLAND, Today: Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand has announced the departure of chief creative officer Toby Talbot. He has been with the agency since 2017 and will be leaving at the end of the March for a new role in Europe in a bid to be closer to family.
