AUCKLAND, Today: China/Germany-based smartphone company Oppo NZ has appointed Rachel Weiss to the newly created role of PR & events manager in New Zealand, joining from Pead PR.
RIP Top Dog
AUCKLAND, Thursday: Phantom Billstickers are mourning the passing of Ray, the pup who inspired the company’s bulldog logo. “At Phantom we have a distinctively canine logo,” says managing partner Robin McDonnell.
Second that Emotion
AUCKLAND, Today: NZ indie Federation has launched a new division – called The Lab – which aims to fuse human emotion into marketing technology, optimising martech investment and “communicating with ‘heart’ to customers”.
Crave’s new public art space
AUCKLAND, Today: Creative indie Crave Global has launched plans for The Lightship, a new platform for contemporary art, which launches today at Ports of Auckland.
Outlook: Grim
AUCKLAND, Today: An anonymous NZ agency insider is painting a bleak picture of the current Covid-afflicted ad world – a picture that starkly contrasts with the sector’s optimistic PR pose.
Judgement Day
AUCKLAND, Today: The 2020 Effie Awards is to be a virtual live show, held later this month (on Thursday 29 October) from 5pm until 6:30pm (scroll down for the link). Kiwi comedian Hayley Sproull is the MC.
Soul Survivor
AUCKLAND, Today: BC&F Dentsu founder/ECD Paul Catmur has grown his arresting podcast series since it launched a year ago. His latest additions are Waikato Uni global creativity specialists Mark Kilgour & Huw O’Connor.
Lord of the Kings?
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: NZ-owned full-service indie agency Pitchblack Partners is behind the launch of the new highly noticeable Burger King ‘Big King XL’, generating a day-one sales record, and much chat on social media.
Shine focus on Spark
AUCKLAND, Today: Shine has partnered with local production companies Spur, Satellite Media, Perceptual Engineering and BuildMedia and New York-based executive producer Adam Jenkins and ECD Mick McConnell to bring Spark’s tech work on the America’s Cup to life.
