The Australian Rugby Union (Rugby AU, as it’s now called) has come up with a cunning plan to sell the new Aussie test jersey to New Zealanders.
Beacon for music
Music has always been a key component for many radio stations. To celebrate music at the Beacons this year, The Radio Bureau will have 10 framed art prints of some of the world’s greatest musicians (some of the member stations’ core artists) to win.
Cheek show
NZME are sponsoring The Sass Awards at The 2018 Comms Council Beacon Awards (once known as The Media Awards). This year the organisers are looking for evidence of the “sassiest male and female”.
Augusto shot ‘wonderfully bonkers’ tourism ad
M+AD thanks the readers who helped us track down missing credits for our ‘wonderfully bonkers’ new Darby & Ardern Tourism NZ ad which we found – unattributed – on Aussie site B&T.
Gladeye wins triple gold in New York
Auckland-based digital agency Gladeye has won three gold medals at the 53rd annual American Society of Publication Designers Awards for its work with HuffPost Highline.
Time for a reality check on AI, marketers told at PHD client event
At PHD New Zealand’s client event earlier this week, renowned academic and technologist Dr Nico Neumann called for a reality check on artificial intelligence, encouraging marketers, businesses and consumers to “go beyond the hype of AI” and its impact on the future.
Darby & Princess Ardern star in ‘wonderfully bonkers’ new tourism ad
“It’s through gritted teeth that B&T admits this Tourism NZ ad is exceptionally good,” reads the intro to this unlikely story published yesterday in Aussie ad/media e-sheet B&T.
Adman takes the plunge to transform young lives
Dentsu Aegis ceo Rob Harvey joins 28 NZ executives next Wednesday (9 May) as they get set to drop 192m from the top of the Sky Tower for the Graeme Dingle Foundation’s annual Drop Your Boss campaign.
Reporters Without Borders unveil FightFakeNews TV spot
To mark World Press Freedom Day (yesterday, 3 May), Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) launched a #FightFakeNews campaign, because it says this combats disinformation – now one of the biggest challenges for journalism’s defenders.
Arrivals & Departures: Colmar Brunton welcomes Kiwi back from Oz
Colmar Brunton has appointed Grant Bell as group account director. He brings more than two decades of quantitative research and analytics experience in the Asia-Pacific region, most recently with his own research consultancy in Sydney, where his clients included Vodafone, TAL, Lion, Coca-Cola, News Corp Australia, Qantas and General Motors Holden.
