AUCKLAND, Today: Mental Health Awareness Week returns from 12–18 October with a simple message from the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand: belonging matters, and connection cannot wait. This year’s theme, Belonging... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Initiative Aotearoa has handed Alex Pringle a bigger brief, promoting her to Group Business Director and putting her at the helm of specialist content division Initiative Content. Pringle will lead... 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
NEW YORK, Friday: Former Saatchi & Saatchi NZ creative director Tom Eslinger – an American who spent 15 years in NZ from 1990 to 2005 – has been named global chief creative... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Customer intelligence agency Perceptive – part of the Clemenger Group – has appointed Peter Thomson as director of strategy. Read More
AUCKLAND, Jan 1: VMLY&R NZ and MBM have released their latest TAB campaign. “The Summer of Racing campaign seeks to add excitement to the season by encouraging New Zealanders to place a... Read More