NZ and Australian sites appear to have been unaffected by yesterday’s ransomware attack that swept much of the world, putting global advertising giant WPP offline across Europe and North America.
Vanity Fair’s pregnant Serena
Phantom’s acclaimed Musicians of Aotearoa posters in charity auction
Phantom Bill Stickers, leaders in the nation’s most music-friendly ad medium, have gifted an exclusive set of their acclaimed NZ Music Month Musicians of Aotearoa poster series to The NZ Music Foundation for auction on Trade Me.
Snookered!
M+AD ed David Gapes had his own close encounter of the worst kind with the Auld Mug – now heading back to Godzone – when it was last in town.
Effies entry call
The NZ Commercial Comms Council has today issued its call for entries for the 2017 Effie Awards (held in association with TVNZ). Entries close Tuesday 15 August, for a show scheduled at the Langham Auckland – soon to be relaunched with a new name* – on Thursday 19 October.
Arrivals & Departures: McFadden exits Nielsen
Nielsen New Zealand marketing & communications manager Kim McFadden – the first port of call for journos working on survey information – has decided to leave the company for a lifestyle change.
China net giant targets Kiwi minorities
Chinese internet giant Alibaba sees “significant opportunities” for ethnic communities in New Zealand to sell to middle-class Chinese consumers who are already well disposed to the country’s clean and green image, reports Warc from the UK.
AA Directions, NZWW, SkyWatch catch eye in latest Nielsen
AA Directions continues to dominate New Zealand magazine readership statistics, hitting No 1 this week in the toplines of the Nielsen survey of the field in play.
QMS NZ harnesses power of mobile data to launch Datalab 2.0
QMS NZ has unveiled a significant update to its award-winning Datalab suite of products. Datalab now includes mobile data and delivers smarter audience centric insights and multiformat planning capability for advertisers.
Cadbury dumps Saatchi, taps Aussie shop for NZ
Cadbury has saved its evil best for last. Not only has it spanked every good Cadbury chocolate-lovin’ Kiwi by closing its iconic Dunedin factory and taking production offshore – but now it’s handed its ‘local’ ANZ full-service agency account to Ogilvy Melbourne.