AUCKLAND, Today: Best Ads on TV recruited Accenture Song North America’s ECD Maria Devereux (formerly ECD at Colenso BBDO) as guest judge of this week’s global Top 5.
JCDecaux launches live site availability
AUCKLAND, Today: JCDecaux New Zealand has “taken the bold step” of developing and integrating live out-of-home availability into Calibre, New Zealand’s industry-wide measurement platform.
OMD NZ coordinates $1.5m media donations to KidsCan for cyclone relief
AUCKLAND, Today: Following the devastating effects of Cyclone Gabrielle, KidsCan came to OMD New Zealand wanting help to raise money for flood victims through media.
AUT powwow: ‘How AI is reshaping advertising in Aotearoa’
AUCKLAND, Today: AI is reshaping advertising in Aotearoa, according to senior AUT academics. “What does the ease of creating imagery online mean for New Zealand’s advertising industry?” they ask.
MediaWorks introduces a new music-only radio station
AUCKLAND, Today: MediaWorks “is x-cited” to confirm that their stable of nine leading music and entertainment radio brands is expanding to welcome a new radio station – replacing Today FM, which closed suddenly last month.
The Monkeys Aotearoa welcomes star creative duo
AUCKLAND, Monday: The Monkeys Aotearoa, part of Accenture Song, has announced the appointment of new creative team Lily Macintosh and Maisie D’Cruz.
Run agency creative to speak at D&AD tomorrow
SYDNEY, Today: Leading indigenous Māori creative from New Zealand, Raymond Otene McKay, asks (via Campaign Brief AU): “Do we want the future of advertising decided by one homogenous group?
Spark Foundry helps Westpac NZ to raise funds for NZ rescue choppers
AUCKLAND, Friday: Parnell agency Spark Foundry New Zealand is collaborating again with Westpac NZ on the 2023 Chopper Appeal Month.
Sideswipe gets the boot
AUCKLAND, Today: After 21 years of delivering one of the few light-hearted features of an increasingly earnest NZ Herald, the paper has axed Ana Samway’s Sideswipe column.
School Road acquires North & South magazine
AUCKLAND, Friday: BusinessDesk’s Daniel Dunkley reports that North & South magazine has been sold to School Road Publishing, the title’s second sale since the collapse of Bauer New Zealand in 2020.
