WELLINGTON, Today: State-Owned Enterprise KiwiRail has announced its appointment of DDB as creative agency following a competitive pitch involving five agencies. The incumbent was Clemenger BBDO.
For planners, spending time outside the bubble of Adland is a necessity, argues Deutsch’s Rob Campbell in an essay for WARC’s Future of Strategy report 2018 (published yesterday – scroll down for the link to the full story).
Parnell-based full service digital and brand agency Terabyte has joined forces with another Aucklandbased agency – social media specialist Social Envy.
Sasha Rainbow, a winner at London’s Voice of a Woman 2018*, is joining Curious Films. NZ MD/exec producer Kate Roydhouse says when saw her work at Cannes she knew she had to sign her immediately.
Sweetshop has signed director Jakob Marky for representation globally, excluding Europe. “Jakob has always had a fascination for stories and how to make them come alive,” says ceo/partner Wilf Sweetland.
“Did it nearly kill me? In the end, I felt the alcohol had given up on me, really. It was as if the alcohol had ingested me whole and was now spitting out the feathers.” – Wellington poet Geoff Cochrane, interviewed in the latest issue of Phantom Billstickers’ quarterly Café Reader magazine.
Earlybird tickets are now on sale for the NZ Comms Council’s 2018 Effie Awards, in association with TVNZ. The deal lasts just under a fortnight – until Tuesday 14 August.
New Zealand’s new Freeview On Demand service is setting the standard for video on demand delivery to smart TVs via HbbTV, said FreeviewNZ’s Jason Foden at the Mediatech Pacific Conference 2018 in Auckland yesterday.
In response to yesterday’s M+AD story about Helen Clark’s “pose” for the cover of express magazine, the former PM posted this comment on Twitter: “Have you heard of graphics? I did not pose for this”.