Countdown’s busting out all the rhymes in a new brand platform, its first campaign by Y&R with support from Ogilvy Media.
QMS launches double-decker side panels
QMS NZ has secured an expansion in Auckland bus media formats, adding more than 500 premium roadside and kerbside double-decker and single-decker panels to their existing extensive national bus media offering and targets consumers on key arterials and Auckland CBD routes.
BC&F Dentsu wakes up Robert Harris
Despite his name sitting on shelves in supermarkets nationwide, and plastered over the front of over 40 cafes, Kiwis know very little about Robert Harris. Some people weren’t aware he was a real man, let alone an important figure in NZ’s coffee history.
APN Outdoor retains biggest South Island airport
AUCKLAND: APN Outdoor has successfully retained the Christchurch Airport advertising business, extending its partnership with New Zealand’s second busiest airport to 2026.
Green advice for Kiwi ad/pr shops
Most New Zealand ad & PR agencies are involved in helping organise large-scale outdoor events – such as music festivals.
An anonymous adman writes
A distinguished adman of our acquaintance writes: “Dear Ed: I have no desire for me or the charity to be unmasked as the tipster to this story (if it is one) please, but I got this school’s Mad Ad competition flyer in the email from PB Tech this morning, and thought it potentially somewhat dodgy.
Premier APAC comp grows another arm
SINGAPORE, June 28: Global tech company HP Inc and Spikes Asia today announced the launch of the Young Spikes Design Competition, to be held in the lead-up to the Spikes Asia Festival in Singapore from September 26-28.
Cause & effect
The Comms Council has today officially launched the entry call for 2018 Effie Awards, in association with TVNZ.
Rebecca Paschalis celebrates 22 years at OMD
Rebecca ‘Berocca’ Paschalis has a lot to celebrate this year. She is turning the big 5 0 and also heading into her 22nd year at global media agency Omnicom Media Group.
B&T wants Kiwis at 2018 show
Australia’s B&T Awards – a creative show that specifically seeks New Zealand entries – has issued its entry call for 2018.
