K Road indie agency Goodfolk has started the year on the good foot, with a pair of significant wins. Prior to Christmas, Goodfolk won the pitch for a global internal engagement campaign for Fletcher Building, who have upwards of 19,000 employees worldwide. In late January, they were also confirmed as Auckland Council’s digital communications and engagement agency, in partnership with […]
Deadlines looming
Entries for the CAANZ Beacon Awards (formerly the Media Awards) close at 4pm next Wednesday (February 18). There’s also a 48-hour extension available – for $515+gst ($265 entry + $250 late fee).
Arrivals & Departures
Two new appointments at NZME.: Tracey Fox has been promoted into a new role leading a centralised group creative team. Previously, she has been general manager marketing NZME. Radio (for the past two years), overseeing marketing of all their radio brands through a time of major transformation.
#smcakl returns for 2015
Auckland’s Social Media Club (#smcakl) kicks off its first get-together of 2015 next week (Wednesday 18 February) from 6 pm to 8pm @ Vodafone HQ, 20 Viaduct Harbour Avenue – and all M+AD readers are invited.
Paying it forward
Whybin\TBWA CD Lisa Fedyszyn is already making a strong impression in her first stint as an executive juror on the New York Festivals Awards. “We’re so excited that she is on board to judge the shortlisted entries, and that she will also lend her creative insights to our young creatives competition, the Torch Awards,” NYF PR director Gayle Seminara Mandel […]
DDB & Westac banish the paranoia
Westpac’s latest campaign from DDB aims to demonstrate the security of CardGuard contactless payments – even for the most paranoid among us. And Mr Tinfoil sure is paranoid!
Colenso fires up the newspaper league
This month’s Ad of the Month Agency League judges were kept busy judging ads from both December and January with two agencies receiving points on the Agency League table.
Arrivals & Departures
Senior staff appointed at OMD Group: Two senior staff have joined OMD on College Hill, with Georgina McKinnon appointed as head of Fuse and Jono Sorenson coming in as account director on Air New Zealand.
Meet OMD’s bright new sparks
OMD has introduced the ad business to the latest successful grads from its annual graduate recruitment programme which sees the agency take on around six graduates every year in an internship capacity.
TBWA NZ missing in action
An editing error in yesterday’s AWARD Awards report saw NZ hotshop Whybin\TBWA go AWOL from our list of NZ finalists. ECD Dave King wasted no time in pointing out – in the courteous yet firm way we’ve come to know quite well – the error of our ways.
