Recognising the “epic advantage of collaboration” across their specialist skills and services, four Taupō businesses – The Business Studio, Good Graphic Design, Resonate Marketing and MediaSolve – came together as a single agency at a brand relaunch at the Millennium Hotel Taupō last week.
Big London awards show heading to Vegas

The deadline is closing in for the 2017 London International Awards, to be held this year in Las Vegas from Wednesday 4 October to Saturday 7th. The entry deadline is Monday.
JAWS spreads the word on food
Auckland patent attorneys James & Wells – affectionately known in the NZ food & beverage business as JAWS – have enlisted Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu to create a print campaign to spread the word on the work their clients and partners carry out behind the scenes.
Reverse sexism claim bites new agency
The beginnings of a revolt have emerged against the (unavoidably) sexist nature of an image circulated widely around the media by new Auckland agency Socialites – a pic of the agency’s action team of four eye-catching blondes plus their client (also a blonde).
Arrivals & Departures: Saatchi taps digital chief
What is Programmatic Marketing?
Programmatic Marketing? The Marketing Association will attempt to address that question – and all it entails – at a full-day course to be held in Auckland in September.
Merger creates new promo marketing shop

A new promotional marketing agency has emerged in Auckland after Crippz Promotions & Trendee Promotions – which have been in business for 30 years – bought NZ online custom-made/NZ-designed apparel company Mr Vintage, to rebrand as Boost Promotions.
Social agency wins Bayer Consumer Health pitch
Auckland social media agency Socialites has won the Bayer NZ Consumer Health account in a three way pitch against data-crunchers Krunch Auckland and JWT NZ.
Levi’s shoots no-names in Auckland
Levi’s Australia and New Zealand has this week embarked on its first major piece of menswear brand advertising in seven years, with a new campaign titled Live in Music via Sydney agency Monster Children Creative.
Republik connects Kiwis with Volvo
Freemans Bay indie Republik and Kiwi director Paul Ross Jones have collaborated to produce local brand content for Volvo Cars New Zealand, for use in digital, cinema and TV.