Pride In Print is returning to the Garden City this year, with Wigram’s Air Force Museum of New Zealand to host the print industry’s gala event on Friday May 12.
Clemenger steers NZTA in new direction
Clemenger BBDO is giving the New Zealand Transport Agency’s long-running, hard-hitting anti-speed campaign a makeover.
US cannabis adspend grows
NEW YORK: The legal cannabis market in the US and Canada was worth US$6.7bn in 2016 – and continues to grow rapidly with adspend following a similar trajectory.
Axis 2017 draws nigh
Just three weeks till entries close for Axis 2017 – at 4pm on Tuesday 24 January. This year’s awards show will be held at the Viaduct Events Centre on Thursday 16 March.
CAANZ shines light on the Beacons
CAANZ has issued its entry documents for this year’s Beacons Awards (formerly the Media Awards).
Global ad revenue ‘back on track’
Big brand budgets and quadrennial events such as the Olympics, European Football Championship and US Presidential Election drove 2016’s global advertising revenue growth to US$532 billion (NZ$746), according to the Global Advertising Trends report from IHS Technology’s Advertising Intelligence Service.
2016 global online numbers + 2017 forecasts
As New Year’s Day 2017 rolled by, there were 3,700,000,000 regular internet users in the world – and just 0.8% were based in NZ/Australia/Oceania, according to a wide-ranging new report out of US-based internet trends tracker vpnMentor.
Arrivals & Departures: Finch signs ‘passionate’ Kiwi helmer
Finch has signed NZ writer/director Zia Mandviwalla to its roster of directors. Mandviwalla has directed commercials for Sky, Vodafone, NZTA, Google Android, Tower Insurance, the NZ Navy and ASB Bank.
Photo campaign outed cheating hubby
“I slept like a baby that night. I felt I had finally moved on.”– Hard not to grin at these defiant words from a scorned Hawera wife who swears she has no regrets about postering the town with nude shots she found on the smartphone of her long-time cheating husband with his scarlet woman – one of them taken in his daughter’s bed.
Colenso, Y&R dominate global creative rankings – NZ ranks #3
New Zealand is ranked the third most creative country in the world (up from #14 last year) in the latest Directory magazine’s Big Won rankings out of London. Colenso BBDO Auckland is ranked #1 creative agency and Y&R NZ ranked #2.
