Clemenger BBDO is giving the New Zealand Transport Agency’s long-running, hard-hitting anti-speed campaign a makeover.
Lipton UK shoots in NZ
Award-winning Kiwi director Mark Albiston of The Sweet Shop has partnered with adam&DDB London to craft a new film spot – shot in NZ – for Lipton.
Special, Robbers Dog create a pearler
Special Group and Paspaley Pearls have teamed with film director Daniel Borgman, fashion photographer Sylve Colless and French actress Nora Arnezeder to create Life Needs Adventure, a film, print and digital campaign designed to continue the strategy of showcasing pearls to a younger, fashion-conscious audience.
True & Exposure shoot Air NZ safety video
Auckland agency True has created Summer of Safety, a new Air New Zealand safety video set against the tourist hotspots in Northland, and starring Shortland Street’s Jayden Daniels, actor Joe Naufahu, stuntwoman Zoë Bell (see also Arrivals & Departures), Kiwi motorace ace Scott Dixon, Olympic bronze-medallist Eliza McCartney, and Rachel Hunter.
NZ eyes on Nobay & Tiger beer
Celebrated Aussie creative David Nobay and Marcel, the Sydney agency he created, have shot a new brand 90sec TVC for Asian beer brand Tiger, scored to the classic What a Wonderful World, but reimagined in Mandarin.
Ronan Keating & Wilderpeople’s Dennison ham it up for Air NZ
Air New Zealand, via agency Host, Sydney, has teamed up with multi-platinum Irish artist Ronan Keating and NZ acting star Julian Dennison to record a uniquely Kiwi take on one of the world’s most iconic Christmas songs, rewritten to celebrate the magic of a Southern Hemisphere Christmas.
TBWA love letter to beer
TBWA Auckland, with a little help from Curious director Daniel Max, has launched a new film in support of Asahi Super Dry, the number one beer in Japan.
Female Kiwi truckie à la Van Damme’s Volvo
Kiwi truck driver Louise Marriott is following in the footsteps of martial arts action hero Jean Claude Van Damme as the star of the latest stunt TVC from Volvo Trucks – The Flying Passenger.
Mother’s Day!
On top for the first time this month is Lotto Mum’s Wish – out of the DDB/The Sweet Shop Imagine series, launched in July. “This,” says Colmar Brunton group account director Annikki Delacey (who supplies our monthly list), “is not surprising as it is a highly emotional ad with great creative qualities.”
Meet Y&R’s tough-talking Tooth Fairy
Y&R and The Sweet Shop have created a big, gruff, scary tooth fairy to help the New Zealand Health Promotion Agency hard-sell the importance of oral care for kids’ teeth.
