Nick Paschalis has joined online display advertising technology shop Acquire Online Auckland as an agency sales director after a 5 1/2 year innings with Yahoo as head of direct sales.
Best and Worst time again
The Fair Go production team is gearing up for the annual Fair Go Ad Awards, which will screen on Monday 21 November on TVNZ 1 at 7.30pm.
Coast (with a little help from Mike Regal) launches into Wanaka
NZME is partnering Central Lakes Media to launch easy-listening station Coast in Wanaka this Monday on 94.6FM. Central, which is owned by former Auckland broadcaster Mike Regal, already owns media in the district, including Radio Wanaka.
Loud online ads face the chop (updated)
TVNZ has sent an SOS to production companies and ad agencies about elevated sound levels on online ads submitted for broadcast.
IPA Gold for Clems & Dog
Clemenger BBDO Wellington’s Mistakes campaign for the NZ Transport Agency has won Gold and the Tim Broadbent Prize for Best International Campaign at the IPA Effectiveness Awards in London. The IPA event rewards work that “that demonstrate marketing payback”.
Contagion brings back Beehive – after 10 years
Contagion Auckland has produced a new national brand campaign for the new range of sausages from Premier Beehive – the first Beehive campaign in over a decade.
Peter Grasse & Spike Jonze talk business
Tokyo, Nov 4 – Dictionary Films Tokyo executive producer Peter Grasse – a well-known face in the NZ film & advertising sectors – returned to Berlin to talk film craft with music producer Sam Spiegel of California’s Squeak E Clean Productions.
O&M summer launch for Coke’s new flavour
Independent NZ-owned corporate PR shop Acumen Republik is spruiking Coca-Cola NZ’s latest offering – Coca-Cola Ginger – and told M+AD that Coke would be revealing details of its summer campaign “soon”.
On target for the national market
Cinema advertising company Screen Vistas is celebrating a new Government deal by launching new, improved innovative cinema packages targeting the national market.
Instagram tests new shopping feature
Mobile is changing the way we shop, and today, Instagram says it’s announcing “an early test to add a rich new layer of shopping to Instagram”.