bcg2 has been appointed as creative agency for New Zealand Opera, and the Auckland indie’s first role was setting up the digital, radio and print creative for the September 2016 season of Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Transtasman undersea cable project homes in on Raglan
The Tasman Global Access Cable – an under-sea cable that will provide a huge boost to NZ’s international broadband connectivity – is now in the final stages of construction, with the specialised undersea cable ship Ile de Re heading towards New Zealand shores.
Phantom covers New Zealand with 12,000 print run
Shazam partners Red Bull in NZ street campaign
Red Bull has teamed up with global app Shazam to kick-start an activation to celebrate the launch of Red Bull’s latest Kiwi-Apple flavour.
FCB shot Easy As
FCB has asked us to clarify information they provided which led to a story we ran in August about the launch of Mitre 10’s On Demand video service.
Aussies pinched our milk?
M+AD is still saving up to buy the full NBR daily news feed – so the best we can do is offer you this enticing preview from the newspaper’s free headline service: “A2’s major Australian competitor, Bellamy’s, doesn’t use Australian milk.
Arrivals & Departures: CAANZ taps Louise Bond, Newshub taps Shaun Davies
The CAANZ board has elected Louise Bond, ceo of PHD Group, as president of the association, after Simon Lendrum’s decision to step down, following his two-and-a-half-year stint in the role.
We got it wrong!
M+AD went a step too far when we proclaimed – wrongly – that Colenso BBDO’s Volkswagen Reduce Speed Dial work was a finalist in the upcoming Spikes Asia Awards in Singapore. The creative is already a Gold winner (in May this year) at New York’s The One Show, but was not entered in this year’s Spikes.
McDonald’s US insolvent?
Oh dear, could this really be the end of the Big Mac?, asks Australia’s B&T magazine, citing a recent study of McDonald’s franchisees in the US.
TBWA quietly kills off the Whybin moniker
Dave Walden would turn in his grave. TBWA has quietly deleted Aussie Scott Whybin’s name from the title of the agency group he formed in NZ and Australia 21 years ago.