AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has issued its call for entries for the annual Sandy Smith Unsung Hero Award, in which MediaWorks will pay $10,000 to remember a long-serving business development manager.
Marae owns up
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: In a thoughtfully worded message, TVNZ corporate comms GM Georgie Hills has attempted to explain how Marae deliberately distorted a Te Reo discussion that screened Sunday.
Arrivals & Departures: Expedia taps LA Kiwi
LOS ANGELES, Wednesday: Publicis’ California-based digital agency for premium brands, Team One, has hired Kiwi expat Kirsten Rutherford as executive creative director on Expedia.
‘My employer’ No 1
AUCKLAND, Today: The 2019 Acumen Edelman Trust Barometer shows “my employer” emerging as the most trusted institution in New Zealand.
Ad exchange unmasks URLs
AUCKLAND, Today: KPEX, the programmatic ad exchange owned by NZ’s four largest media groups, announced that it will provide full URL transparency for its online advertising inventory from this Monday, 18 March.
Curious’ Asian Girls now online
SYDNEY, Today: Asian Girls, a stylised, slick horror short directed by Curious Film’s Hyun Lee*, has been released online after a successful run of film festival screenings in the USA, UK and Australia.
Reebok unveils ad that makes no sense! ‘And it’s truly glorious!’
SYDNEY, Today: For this story we are indebted to Australia’s most entertaining admedia writers – the scallywags at B&T. Here’s what they have to say about Reebok’s latest …
DDB campaign connects Amazon Prime Video & 2degrees
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: 2degrees has teamed up with Amazon to offer Amazon Prime Video memberships to its broadband customers. The agencies helping to align matters at this end are DDB (creative), Ikon (media) and Porter Novelli (PR)..
Six NZ shops through to Australia’s AWARD shortlist
SYDNEY, Tuesday: DDB New Zealand, with 21 finalists, is the leading Kiwi agency list through at the shortlist stage of the 40th AWARD Awards – dominated, naturally, by Aussie shops.
Saatchi in harmony for Chorus
AUCKLAND, Today: A playful take on reminding Kiwis that genius is everywhere, within all of us, is at the heart of the new brand campaign for Chorus, launched this morning by Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand.
