With just one week remaining for photographers and filmmakers to enter this year’s D&AD Next Awards, F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi Rio de Janeiro have released a new series of stop-motion animations as the centrepiece of this year’s Every Pixel Counts campaign, which spotlights the work of previous Next Award winners and the attention to detail of their creative process.
… Meanwhile, D&AD extends Pro Awards deadline
The D&AD Professional Awards deadline has been extended to Wednesday 1 March, giving entrants two more weeks to enter.
Bongs? Briscoes lady?
The creatives at Ogilvy have devised a wickedly funny Axis Pub Quiz to help us while away the rainy weather – while at the same time lighting a fire under the CAANZ entry procedure for the biggest creative show of 2017.
FCB creatives prime 2 million Vodafone Prepay deals
FCB developed the creative that has to date persuaded more than individual 430,000 Kiwis to redeem Vodafone’s current Million Free Prepay Deals offer, proving that free data and minutes is – to say the least – appetising for users.
Arrivals & Departures: Saatchi taps Su Johnstone for new role
Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand has announced the appointment of Su Johnstone to the newly created position of Creative Services Director.
PHD NZ a global top Gunn
The Gunn Report has named PHD NZ as the third most-awarded media agency in the world, just behind Starcom USA and Mindshare India – but ahead of OMD USA and OMD UK. Globally, OMD was crowned Agency Network of the Year.
Ogilvy, Porter Novelli like Countdown’s Facebook power
Outstanding promotional work by the Ogilvy social media team has helped client Countdown hit the 300,000 mark in Facebook fans – placing the supermarket chain 3rd among NZ’s big brands.
Get out alive
New York’s Andy Awards – which honour creativity in global advertising – has produced the third in its series of amusing animated films as tomorrow’s late entry deadline closes in.
Cannes taps another Aussie for jury duty
The Cannes Lions continue to appoint Aussie ad people to senior jury positions – the latest being McCann Health Australia/SE Asia ECD June Laffey, who will lead the Pharma Lions jury.
The Hefners bring back nudes – but Gen Y ain’t lookin’
Infamous men’s magazine Playboy is to bring back the nudes exactly 12 months after ditching them in what appears to be a failed attempt to attract new Gen Y readers and more mainstream advertisers.
