AUCKLAND, Today: A long-established, well-regarded Queen Street digital agency, Aamplify Partners, yesterday closed its doors, making as many as 25 people redundant.

With 69 entries across 15 categories, 37 finalists have been named for the 2018 IABNZ Awards, with winners set to be recognised across Digital Media Sales Excellence, Ad-Operations Excellence, Digital Product of the Year and Creative Facing categories.

Stuff senior comms exec Alex Maplesden writes: “We’ve just received the July Unique Audience results from Nielsen and thought you may be interested in some of the findings, particularly the YOY growth in Unique Audience from Stuff vs the decline from the New Zealand Herald.

The Comms Council has appointed London-based “recovering account planner” Mark Earls as the international judge at October’s NZ Effie Awards.

The Winner, Winner campaign concept to celebrate Nando’s NZ’s commitment to using only 100% NZ-raised free range chicken has been awarded $120,000 of full motion retail media split across oOh!media’s nationwide network of Evoke and Shopalive panels.  The Nando’s campaign, a collaboration by Mindshare, bcg2 and Black Digital, turns oOh!’s full motion panels into fruit machines with rotating images of [...]

Women in Indonesia are the focus for a new Pantene shampoo campaign by Grey that includes a full-length pop song by one of the country’s most famous singers (and single mothers), Anggun.

AUCKLAND, Today: Business lender Spotcap has launched its first ever brand campaign in New Zealand – it began running across MediaWorks stations The Breeze and The Sound yesterday.

Growth in New Zealand’s media agency market spent $1.04 billion in the 2017/18 financial year – down $4 million on the previous year, according to data from SMI (scroll down for the link).