AUCKLAND, Today: Daylight has made its second senior leadership appointment of the year, naming Nicole Sykes Executive Creative Director as the independent creative and technology company grows across Aotearoa and Australia. Sykes... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Bastion Aotearoa has added four people, created a new social role and promoted Holly Dean to Executive Creative Director — not exactly a modest reshuffle of the creative department. The... Read More
SYDNEY, Thursday: M&C Saatchi – now based in Australia – has appointed Paul Hankinson to the role of executive creative director for its specialist agency model Greenhouse in New Zealand. Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Ogilvy ECDs Lisa Fedyszyn & Jonathan McMahon will be featured speakers at the Marketing Association’s next Brainy Breakfast event, on Tuesday 14 May. Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: M+AD has two tickets to give away (scroll down for the link) to tomorrow’s premiere of NZ independent film Soldiers Without Guns, narrated by Lucy Lawless. Read More
LONDON, Today: Iconic battery brand Duracell has awarded its global creative business (outside the USA) to WPP agency Wunderman Thompson. The Wunderman win came after a four-month multi-agency pitch with 10 agencies... Read More
NEW YORK, Wednesday: In the highest-profile deal the global ad industry has seen in recent memory, Aussie creative overachiever David Droga has sold the agency that bears his name to Dublin-based management... Read More
Australia’s second-largest telecoms company Optus has appointed Vodafone NZ consumer director Matt Williams to the new role of marketing & revenue managing director, after an internal restructure. Read More
NAPIER, Wednesday: Chemical giant BASF has appointed Hawkes Bay full service specialist agribusiness agency Tracta (“the Heartland Agency”) as the creative and strategic lead for their Australia and New Zealand agricultural business. Read More
JERSEY CITY, Saturday: Six New Zealanders – including a Wellington agency chief – have made the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list of the hottest "game-changing" entrepreneurs. Read More