CAANZ advises that the hard copy deadline for Axis 2016 is just two days away – at 4pm Friday 29 January.
Arrivals & Departures: Facebook NZ taps Natalia Bell
Facebook NZ has appointed Natalia Bell as a client partner, working across a range of clients in the Travel, Finance, Auto and FMCG categories.
Husband-and-wife creatives in trendspotter mode
Colenso ECD Wayne Pick and Colenso/Proximity CD Kim Pick appear on the same stage at a Marketing Association event next month – the pair will discuss “connecting the dots and picking the trends from bleeding edge to leading edge and mainstream in 2016”.
Arrivals & Departures: Breaking the ice
Leading merino apparel brand Icebreaker has appointed Carla Murphy as chief marketing & strategy officer.
ZO wins Bell media
After a period of sharing the love around several Auckland shops, Bell Tea (now with new management) has appointed ZenithOptimedia as its fulltime media agency.
Lament for the long lunch
“The Christian religion was basically founded over a meal with a few wines,” says Auckland ad legend Mike Hutcheson (now at the Image Centre). “We founded HKM Advertising over a lunch – the deal was closed at Sails. We started at 12.30, and at 7.30 we were still going. We wrote the original agreement on the back of a napkin.”
Rising to the top
Problem Child, the Auckland agency founded by Louise Chapman and Rich Maddocks (creator of the original Tui Yeah Right campaign when he was ECD at Colenso) has shot two new TVCs to launch Lewis Road Creamery’s new brand campaign.
High-five
The One Club has introduced the Penta Pencil to this year’s One Show Special Awards line-up.
TVNZ to launch ad-funded male-skewed entertainment channel
TVNZ has announced plans to launch a male-skewing entertainment channel for New Zealand viewers in coming months. The new channel will be live streamed online and broadcast free to air.
Ponsonby pub toasts Tarantino
For the next seven days, Quentin Tarantino devotees can immerse themselves in his eighth and latest film at a Ponsonby pub, via an activation engineered by Auckland media agency OMD with their activation partner Fuse.
