Significant editorial changes will be unveiled this weekend by the Herald on Sunday and Weekend Herald magazines Canvas and Weekend.
Watch your back pocket!
Y&R has devised a cash giveaway campaign to help The Co-operative Bank celebrate ‘Happy Rebate Day’ – the day (in reality, the promo runs for much longer) returns a record $2.1 million to its Kiwi customers.
Phantom sees the light
With over 700 legal and permitted sites nationwide, Phantom Billstickers knows how to get a street poster campaign in front of lots of eyeballs. But when daylight disappears, what happens to those poster views? They disappear too.
Eleven scores in Hong Kong
Whybin\TBWA’s PR arm Eleven has won Gold overnight at the Asia PR Awards in Hong Kong, taking out the Sports Campaign of the Year prize for Les Mills Run the Final.
Westside sweet as
Drinks all round at TV3, which is today celebrating a strong start to the return of westie drama series Westside to NZ screens.
DDB NZ scores rare finals spot in London
DDB’s Steinlager Pure Deep Dive campaign has been listed – alongside Coca-Cola, Dell, HBO, KFC and MasterCard – for the 2016 Warc Prize for Social Strategy (“highlighting the best examples of social ideas that drive business results”). Warc is a global comms site, based in the UK.
Semi Permanent back in town
The annual Semi Permanent creative & design thinking platform returns to Auckland on Friday & Saturday 12-13 August with speakers including Assignment Group ceo Peter Biggs, Designworks chairman Sven Baker, plus a big cast from NZ, the UK, US, Germany, and Australia.
Industry growth fuels record Cannes entries
Entries for the 2016 Cannes Lions have closed, with a record 43,101 (+7%) submissions received. Overall there’s been growth in 18 of the 24 Lions.
When Social Media Goes Bad – book now
Just one day left to register for the CAANZ/Simpson Grierson morning seminar When Social Media Goes Bad – Part 2, led by lawyer Tracey Walker, who returns from last year’s successful event.
Cirkus shoots global Unilever campaign
Just before Christmas 2015, Mullen Lowe Indonesia approached Cirkus to be involved in Unilever’s brand new global campaign for Paddle Pop.
