AUCKLAND, Friday: Freemans Bay shop Pitchblack (“we are not an ad agency”) has engineered a new Air New Zealand inflight video, A Journey to Safety.
Ritson returns
AUCKLAND, Today: Ex-marketing-professor-gone-rogue Mark Ritson is back in the headlines today, with details of a new Comms Council course and Bauer Media’s filmed version of his Auckland address last week.
Standing fast
AUCKLAND, Today: The print editions of NZ’s magazines & newspapers are holding up – despite the onslaught of digital media, according to the latest Nielsen Q4 topline results.
Futuro en España
AUCKLAND, Today: Former Saatchi & Saatchi NZ CCO Toby Talbot is returning to the DDB network as chief creative officer for C14TORCE, the SEAT-dedicated agency in Barcelona.
Back to the future
AUCKLAND, Today: TVNZ reported EBITDAF of $26.3 million for the six months to 31 December 2019 – $0.5 million (2%) above the previous year.
Maccas & Track take out the big one (updated)
AUCKLAND, Today: McDonald’s with agency partners Track NZ were the big winners at the 2019 NZ Direct Marketing Awards, hosted last night by the Marketing Association.
Ritson on marketing: The answer is Yes!
AUCKLAND, Today: Finally, decent coverage of Mark Ritson’s presentation in Auckland last week – thanks to a blog written by Hunch agency’s Michael Goldthorpe.
Nine lives
SYDNEY, Today: NZ news media publishers have scored nine finalist nominations across a range of categories for the 2020 Global Media Awards (run by the International News Media Association, and administered in this part of the world by Australia’s NewsMediaWorks).
Business nous
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: North Shore-based customer intelligence agency Perceptive – part of the Clemenger Group – has hired Michael Stones and Angela Dunn as business directors.
