Film Construction NZ has engaged a new director – he’s Sydney-based Daniel Pront, formerly a freelance director working globally with a variety of companies, agencies and clients direct.
I see red (updated)
Alert reader Tough Pencil could only shake his/her head in astonishment at the wondrous food-preparation skills demonstrated by Shortland Street star Reuben Milner in a TVNZ promo image that ran with M+AD Daily’s story yesterday about Saatchi’s 2017 Election Commission campaign.
Kargo Mobile arrives in NZ
Global mobile ad company Kargo, which bills itself as “the leader in mobile brand advertising”, has announced its expansion into New Zealand, “bringing.” says the release, “Kargo’s presence to 98% of the global mobile advertising market”.
Aussie mag picks AB to lead NZ invasion
The star power of Beauden Barrett has moved niche Aussie magazine title Men’s Health to launch a dedicated New Zealand edition, featuring the first-five (or, in that strange sports lingo they use across the Ditch, ‘fly half’) on the cover.
Print gets its day in the sun
The Magazine Publishers Association has released details of its finalists for the Magazine Media Awards 2017. All the usual corporate suspects – Bauer, Tangible, and Fairfax – plus a plethora of individual titles will square off next month at a gala dinner in Auckland, to name the winners.
Electoral Commission ticks Shortland St stars for 2017 campaign
Today the Electoral Commission and TVNZ, through agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and Starcom, launched an online campaign enlisting Shortland Street stars in a drive to get young voters to the polls, according to a report in NBR.
Arrivals & Departures: Yahoo Platforms NZ welcomes New Yorker, realestate.co.nz taps head of media
Yahoo Platforms has appointed a new account manager to their Auckland team. Odis Ponce joins from Yahoo’s New York office, where she worked across programmatic advertising in an optimisation strategist role.
US agency-creative-turned-director – M+AD talks to Sweet Shop signing Jeff Labbe (Updated)
The Sweet Shop director Jeff Labbe, who’s based in Louisiana, started his career as a trailblazing agency creative on the West Coast of America. Today, M+AD publishes an insightful interview he did with Branding Asia publisher Bobby McGill.
99 takes production hit
Four staff positions at Auckland retail shop 99 are under review, as client Warehouse Stationery moves production roles in-house.
Arrivals & Departures: Colenso creative duo return from the Big Apple
New York-based Kiwis Beth O’Brien and Thomas Darlow are returning to New Zealand to take creative group head roles at Colenso BBDO.
