AUCKLAND, Today: Most client-agency relationships do well to reach double figures. Bunnings and PHD Aotearoa have now stretched theirs to 24 years, with another chapter officially locked in. Bunnings has reappointed PHD... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Friends and family have a way of forgiving missed catch-ups. Leave it too long, however, and Tourism New Zealand warns you may officially become a stranger. That playful threat sits... Read More
NEW YORK, Today: New York Festivals International Advertising Awards has appointed two prominent New Zealanders to its 2019 grand jury – Clemenger BBDO CD Emily Beautrais and McCann Australia chief strategy officer... Read More
LONDON, Yesterday: D&AD Festival 2019 has released details of its new visual identity. D&AD Festival, “where craft, creativity and culture collide”, returns 21-23 May to The Old Truman Brewery, London. Still the... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Immigration New Zealand has appointed Tilt Digital as its global digital media agency following a competitive pitch. Read More
NEW YORK, Today: Wunderman Inc founder/chairman Lester Wunderman – direct marketing trailblazer extraordinaire – died last week (on January 9) of natural causes. He was 98 years old. Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Colmar Brunton Research – a division of Kantar NZ – appears to be cutting back on its interface with the ad sector, by cancelling production of M+AD’s popular Top 10... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Lumo Digital Outdoor is introducing what it calls “world-first standards in out-of-home reporting data” to the NZ market through a new contract with Australian-based reporting platform Seedooh. Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Outdoor Media Association general manager Derek Lindsay has resigned to pursue private projects. OMANZ is now looking for a new GM (scroll down for the link). Read More
WELLINGTON, Today: Fish Entertainment – the filmmaking division of Flying Fish – is lending its weight to speedway dirt-track racing, with moral support for a short doco, She Speeds, about fourth-generation Kiwi... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Just two members of the comms business – both outstanding newspaper veterans – were deemed worthy of a New Year honour in 2019. That’s right – not an ad or... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: BC&F Dentsu has appointed Murray Streets to lead the agency as managing director. Streets joins from FCB where he was general manager – integrated strategy, and is taking over the... Read More