AUCKLAND, Today: A hard-bitten, gimlet-eyed PR person feeling “isolated and depressed”? A contradiction in terms, surely? But it was reality to NSPR founder Niki Schuck when she moved from her hometown Dunedin to Waiheke Island in 2014.
See you Tuesday
AUCKLAND, Today: A very quiet day for industry news today – due, of course, to the onset of the four-day Easter break.
New Zealand’s answer to Facebook?
AUCKLAND, Today: KPEX is New Zealand’s second-largest online media platform, after Google. “It offers greater audience reach than Facebook and YouTube combined in this region,” says Kiwi Premium Ad Exchange ceo Simon Birkenhead.
Arrivals & Departures: Perceptive taps software developer
AUCKLAND, Today: Leading customer intelligence agency Perceptive has appointed Sangeeta Kaydan to the role of senior software developer in NZ.
New categories
SINGAPORE, Wednesday: The Spikes Asia Creative Awards has issued its 2019 call for entries – this year with new categories, and other spruce-up changes.
Seven NZ entries shortlisted in NYC
NEW YORK, Wednesday: Seven entries from New Zealand are through to the shortlist stage of the internet Oscars – the Webby Awards.
99’s New World Epic Easter Hunt returns for 3rd straight year
AUCKLAND, Today: 99’s AR-based egg hunt is back in store, and for the first time, players have the opportunity to take home New World’s Easter bunny mascot in the form of a limited-edition soft toy.
DDB’s Steinlager work is global #1
PARIS, Today: Advertising eavesdropping site Adforum has named DDB NZ’s latest tvc for Steinlager at No 1 in its weekly roundup of the top five tvcs in the world.
Augusto creates ‘confronting’ social work
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Motivated to do something to highlight and change New Zealand’s alarming suicide statistics, Auckland creative agency Augusto has tackled the issue head-on in two new film projects.
Arrivals & Departures: Sustainability focused PR agency in growth mode
AUCKLAND, Today: Senior comms professionals Richard Gordon and Tim Marshall have joined PR consultancy Wright Communications (“the first specialist agency in sustainability communications”).
