SINGAPORE, Thursday: New Zealand has won eight Gold Awards and four Spikes at the Spikes Asia Awards. Tribal Aotearoa won three Golds, DDB Aotearoa scored two Golds, and one apiece went to Saatchi & Saatchi, Special and TBWA\.
AUCKLAND, Thursday: Special has hired two senior creatives to further bolster their creative team. Matt Swinburne (group creative director) and David Shirley (creative director) will be joining the agency at the end of this month.
AUCKLAND, Today: An independent media buying agency is relaunching under a new name, according to a report by Daniel Dunkley in news site BusinessDesk.
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: DDB, FCB, Saatchi & Saatchi, Special, YoungShand, VMLY&R, Assembly, Yarn, EightyOne, Colenso, Clemenger, Eight, Motion Sickness, TBWA\, Ruskin, Sweetshop, Franklin Rd, Finch, Fish, Flux, Film Construction, Good Oil, Blockhead, and Liquid are among the finalists named for Axis 2022. Scroll down for the full list.
AUCKLAND, Today: Omnicom data-driven media shop Hearts & Science has promoted Jane Stanley to ceo of Hearts & Science Australia & New Zealand. She was previously the ceo of Hearts & Science NZ.
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: New Zealand crypto currency retailer Easy Crypto has appointed MBM as its agency of record for media and Google Marketing Platform servicing.
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: dentsu Aotearoa and the Sir John Kirwan Foundation have launched Mitey – an innovative approach that enables primary and intermediate schools to deliver effective mental health education as part of everyday teaching.