We at M+AD are not particularly religious types – but when it comes to festive holidays, we’ll take ’em, along with everybody else!
Entry call for vertical NZ Tall Shorts Film Fest
Spark, Facebook and Colenso BBDO have joined forces to create the Tall Shorts Film Festival, flipping the traditional landscape film format on its side with a vertical-format film festival “for the mobile age”.
Diverse Wellington shoots new tourism campaign
Depictions of a farmer as a drag queen and a real estate agent who moonlights as a stand-up comedian are highlighting the diversity and acceptance found in Wellington as part of a new online tourism campaign targeting Kiwis.
Comms Council welcomes ThinkTV launch
At an agency and media event in Auckland this morning, TVNZ, MediaWorks and Sky TV joined forces to launch ThinkTV – a collective voice for the industry to promote the scale and effectiveness of television advertising in New Zealand.
The Māori woman inside NZ advertising’s white boys club
Saturday’s Weekend Herald featured an interesting piece – with a taped interview – about Bridget Taylor, the ECD at Contagion, the full-service indie agency she founded with husband Dean Taylor.
AdMusic 2.0 launches as MusicBrief
Sydney, Today – Following a successful year beta-testing the bespoke music platform in Australia, Admusic V2.0 will launch on both sides of the Tasman this week under the name MusicBrief.
‘Jazz Hands’ wins Silver – and a new daughter
Sydney-based Kiwi Andrew Holmes, who’s now lead editor at creative services company Heckler (his last job was the new Tiger Beer commercial) has picked up a Silver Lotus Award at Adfest 2018.
Smoke gets in your eyes
Auckland music production house Smoke is stepping out for another spin with Mediaworks, creating all the dance tracks for the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars.
Buy now while stocks last
The Comms Council reckons that tickets are selling fast for the upcoming 5th annual Beacons Awards in May. “So pick up yours today,” says ceo Paul Head.
Contagion eases the pain
Contagion, the Auckland full-service indie founded by Dean & Bridget Taylor in 2010, has created a new campaign for Reckitt Benckiser NZ’s high-strength over-the-counter pain control product Nuromol.
