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Air New Zealand has shot a new broadcast TVC starring three of the airline’s brand ambassadors – Mahe Drysdale, Valerie Adams and Dan Carter.

Surprise, surprise – Carl’s Jr’s Super Bowl ad stars an almost-naked woman. The ad, which stars swimsuit model Charlotte McKinney will screen at the big game on Sunday 1 February.

Following a series of successful social campaigns on Facebook (Like Loan) and LinkedIn (Ambition), Saatchi & Saatchi and ASB have launched the bank’s next social instalment – this time on Snapchat, further cementing their position, the agency says, as New Zealand’s most social bank. 

At the start of summer Tip Top and Colenso launched a series of social experiments to find out if Feeling Tip Top makes everything better. They did tests in the workplace, at the movies and on the streets. And the results strongly suggest that – yes – Tip Top ice cream makes a difference to people’s frame of mind and therefore makes life better.

Clemenger BBDO Wellington has been named a Best in Show finalist in the 2014 Mobius Awards for  NZTA Mistakes – just one week after the ad was named by the UK’s Gunn Report as one of the 12 best global campaign in 2014.

M+AD has tracked down the Billy T James 1991 NZ Census commercial shot by John Day, who died last week in India (celebrated-nz-director-exits). The video was stored in the Flying Fish film vaults, and is now being run with a Fish tribute page to the director at on the Fish Facebook page here.

Auckland’s Media Design School holds its AdSchool Bootcamp on Tuesday 27 January 27 at 5pm. The deadline to apply for a fast diminishing number of places is Monday 9 February.

True has launched a poetic new 60sec TVC for ANZ, promoting the bank’s sponsorship of the current Sri Lanka cricket series and the upcoming Cricket World Cup. [Updating our earlier edition of this story which incorrectly credited the work to JWT.]

Kiwi chef Al Brown, star shrink Nigel Latta and rally driver Hayden Paddon have lent their support to a Family Time video campaign for Hyundai NZ. The trio have spoken about the importance of playing sports and games as a family in conjunction with the launch of the Hyundai Beach vs Beach 2015 Cricket Cup.

Malaysia Airlines is kicking off the year with a powerful online initiative to get them back in people’s minds – for all the right reasons.