AUCKLAND, Today: Winning an account is one thing. Keeping it after a competitive pitch is another, and PHD Aotearoa has done just that with Spark New Zealand. The Omnicom Oceania agency has... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Toothpaste isn't usually the star of the streets, but Red Seal is making sure its latest campaign gets noticed, with a nationwide push spanning outdoor, streaming television and social media.... Read More
Following previous years’ High St Whisky, Queen’s Ferry Gin, and Friendship Sake (a winner at this year’s Best Awards), BC&F Dentsu have unveiled their 2017 client Christmas gift: Spot X Spiced Rum. Read More
In an orgy of pointless self-congratulation, Newstalk ZB has issued a media release announcing to the world that preachy morning host Leighton Smith would leave the network – in 12 months’ time! Read More
Auckland-based digital creative agency Little Giant, Linked by Isobar has been awarded business from global real estate company Harcourts International. Read More
Global performance marketing platform AdRoll, which claims to have over 25,000 clients worldwide, went right under the radar as it surreptitiously pulled out of NZ and Australia, and relocated to Dublin. Read More
US-based global creative gallery Adforum is the latest offshore site to cotton on to Ogilvy NZ’s brilliant NZ Police recruitment video Freeze, naming it one of the five best new ads this... Read More
QMS NZ is launching a digital transaction platform (which it labels “a NZ first for large-format roadside digital”), in conjunction with tech outfit The Rubicon Project and mobile specialists Digital Commons, who... Read More
Sydney-based Andrew Hunter has joined Facebook in a newly created Australasian role as news partnerships lead, fronting Facebook’s “increasing collaboration” with Australia and New Zealand's media networks and help with the local... Read More
AdFest Thailand has issued its entry call for the longest-running ad awards show in the Asia Pacific region – the 21st AdFestT Lotus Awards. Read More
Margaret Hawker is set to join downtown Auckland-based indie Running with Scissors as an Auckland-based creative strategist. Read More
OMD has extended its role with Meridian Energy picking up Meridian’s media account, extending the work undertaken over the past two years by OMD’s Programmatic, Search and Data divisions. The full-service incumbent... Read More