CHRISTCHURCH, Today: Phantom Billstickers are teaming up with Big Street Bikers to launch New Zealand’s first public infrastructure double-sided digital screen network – Locky Docks.
Stuff & NZME win in Paris
PARIS, Last Night: NZ media giants Stuff and NZME shared the honours at the 2020 Global Media Awards, each taking out one of 10 regional wins.
Australia’s 7th state?
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Sixty-four people work at Wunderman Thompson NZ – but not one of them is authorised to talk to media. All official agency business comes out of WPP AUNZ’s head office in Sydney, and the agency operates for all the world as if NZ was Australia’s 7th state.
Tackling Racism
PORTLAND, OREGON, Monday: Sportswear giant Nike has taken another stand against racism through a powerful campaign in response to the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd.
Creative Hi-Tech
AUCKLAND, Today: The NZ creative production and technology sector, with a little help from agency/production house Augusto, has launched a new campaign, Your Creative Business Can Happen Now, offering a production hub solution to studios looking to keep innovating amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Freeze Frame
AUCKLAND, Today: People around the world have been mugged by events in 2020. In these times of lockdown and distress, moments of beauty are more precious than ever.
PR Raincheck
BERN, SWITZERLAND, Monday: NZ PR Institute chair Fiona Cassidy has been elected to the executive committee of the Global Alliance for PR & Comms Management.
Ad gripes up 9%
WELLINGTON, Friday: The Advertising Standards Authority fielded 1429 ‘enquiries’ in 2019, according to its latest annual report. The report outlines the self-regulatory action undertaken by the ASA on behalf of New Zealand advertisers, as regulator of all ads in all media.
Meet the Boss
AUCKLAND, Sunday: “We still need to become more digitally focussed – but that doesn’t mean we’re letting go of print,” Stuff ceo Sinead Boucher told Sunday Star-Times reporter Tony Wall when he asked her “what’s next?”.
