Category Archive

AUCKLAND, Monday: Colenso BBDO’s latest work for Anchor – created alongside MediaCom, Flare, Franklin Road, and Mango – features Santa in a remote location training for his biggest night of the year. 

AUCKLAND, Monday: A confronting account of one man’s struggle for survival at sea inspired a captivating campaign for Maritime NZ using an innovative production technique created by Saatchi & Saatchi, and launched today as Kiwis take to the water for summer. 

AUCKLAND, Saturday: Not everybody’s a fan of the current Air NZ TV campaigns: “Please Air NZ – stick to your core business,” wrote “a long-haul pilot” to the Weekend Herald letters column.

VICTORIA, Thursday: Saatchi & Saatchi Melbourne, with Sweetshop director Alexander Brown, have shot a spot for global online bike marketplace BikeExchange, which will screen across 10 markets – including NZ.

AUCKLAND, Today: The husband & wife filmmaking team who head up Film Construction, director Perry Bradley & photographer/EP Belinda Bradley, have turned their skills to an art form they love – the documentary short.

MELBOURNE, Yesterday: NZ winery Squealing Pig has launched a quirky new via J Walter Thompson Australia. Under the direction of Glue Society’s Pete Baker (based in Wellington) five films have been created – one for each of the little pigs that feature on the Squealing Pig label.

AUCKLAND, Yesterday: After several months on Netflix’s Emmy-nominated series Chef’s Table in London, Delhi and LA, Finch’s Zia Mandviwalla has returned to Australia with the “beautifully emotive” Street Smart tvc for Holden (created by Special Group).

AUCKLAND, Yesterday: TVNZ production outfit Blacksand, with Ikon and Coca-Cola Oceania have shot Character Required – a series of Schweppes tvcs fronted by star actor Kiwi Robbie Magasiva (currently appearing in Wentworth).

In a category often diluted with stories of mateship, Asahi Super Dry needed to create a new wave of energy to break through to premium beer drinkers in its latest campaign, ‘Enter Asahi’.