Category Archive

Colenso BBDO and Curious Film have unveiled Monteith’s new campaign with a TVC which went to air on Sunday – the first part of an integrated campaign set to rollout over the next few months.

Buenos Aires is Air NZ’s latest destination target for Aussie travellers – and the new direction gives the airline’s advertising a somewhat more exotic look than we are used to.

NZ agencies have eight entries through to shortlists after The One Show released the second round of finalists in social media, UX/UI, print & outdoor. Colenso has three of the eight, DDB two, and Y&R, Ogilvy & Mather and Special Group has one each.

Five NZ entries – four of them from OMD – have been named as finalists in the International Festival of Media in London. PHDiQ Auckland also made the cut.

DDB New Zealand has made the shortlist in the Film category at the 42nd One Show Awards in New York for SKY TV’s The Journey Starts Here in Consumer Television: 60 Second – Campaign.

We have a lot of time for Mike Hosking. He’s smart, witty, quick, hard-working, and often compulsive viewing. But his presentation of this treacly, gloomy, faux-sincere, try-hard new ad for Newstalk ZB – the station’s first TVC for 10 years – is awful.

Saatchi & Saatchi goes against the flow, and tries to show the ‘fun’ side of the possum menace in the agency’s latest TVC retail campaign for Toyota.

Insurer AMP has taken a plunge into unknown waters by signing an exclusive broadcast partnership deal with MediaWorks for the Paul Henry Show, which launches on TV3, Radio Live, and mobile devices this Tuesday (7 April.)

Paw Justice and DDB have teamed up once again to fight for the furry little creatures that don’t have a voice themselves.

“Dear All,” writes King Street’s Chris Williams in a group email. “It was a hard week last week after the loss of our valued colleague and dear friend, Konrad Smith.