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
TOKYO, Sunday: In a move reflecting the changing dynamics between Big Tobacco and advertising, Philip Morris International has appointed Thirteen, a Japanese creative agency owned by McCann Worldgroup, on a project basis for... Read More
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. Read More
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... Read More
Parnell-based full service digital and brand agency Terabyte has joined forces with another Aucklandbased agency – social media specialist Social Envy. Read More
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... Read More
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. Read More
Band practice has begun, the wildcards are drawn and the entries are now closed for the 11th Battle of The Ad Bands. Read More
“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... Read More
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. Read More
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... Read More