Category Archive

AUCKLAND, Today: Following a competitive pitch, VMLY&R Auckland has won the Villa Maria Estate creative account. Previously, the winemaker used different agencies on a project basis, so there was no incumbent.

AUCKLAND, Today: DAN’s Air NZ Rugby World Cup out-of-home campaign is the winner of oOh!media’s InnoOh!vation Award, with the airline taking away a $10,000 media package as its prize. 

AUCKLAND, Jan 1: Alexander PR and sister agency The Content Place have added to New Zealand PR’s reputation on the global stage, winning at global Sabre Awards in Singapore, London, San Fransisco and Washington (where Alexander PR was named the eighth best campaigner of the year).

AUCKLAND, Jan 1: The ad/media experts on Pead PR’s senior leadership have provided M+AD with a thoughtful Q+A summarising the year as they saw it in 2019 – and some insights into how they see 2020.

SYDNEY, Jan 1: B&T’s Women Leading Tech Awards (run alongside Google) has its 2020 entry call – the first deadline is Wednesday 12 February. Entries cost A$99 (goes up to A$149 if you take the late deadline option – Wednesday 12 Feb).

SYDNEY, Jan 1: New Zealand ad agencies in general – and DDB in particular – enjoyed extraordinary success at the 2019 global ad rankings compiled by Aussie site Campaign Brief’s annual Best Ads division.

LONDON, Jan 1: Colenso BBDO chief creative officer Levi Slavin (the first and only NZ-based adman to win a Black Pencil) has been appointed as the president of the Radio & Audio jury at the D&AD Awards 2020.

AUCKLAND, Jan 1: Rip It Up co-founder, music journalist/photographer Murray Cammick was made an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit in the new year’s honours list.

AUCKLAND, Today: After 300,000 words and 1 million+ page views, M+AD Daily is farewelling 2019 – today is our last issue.