Apple fans have a week until the release of the new iPhone. Reports say the iPhone 7 should be available in America mid-September with a Kiwi release sometime later.
As well as collecting a swag of gongs, Wayne Pick (Executive Creative Director at Colenso BBDO/Proximity Auckland) defied the odds to be a key note speaker at AD STARS 2016 in South Korea last weekend.
It came at us in a blaze of publicity. Domino’s using drones to deliver pizzas right to our doors. Their marketers must have been doing backflips as the government stumped up to give their campaign some credibility.
New World reports positive reaction to their Colenso BBDO ‘Happier NZ’ campaign which hit our screens earlier this month. The UN ranks us the 8th happiest country on the planet so New World brought in Colenso to help change that.
Brazilian Andre Sallowicz has returned to New Zealand to take up a permanent art director role in the Auckland office of Colenso BBDO. It’s familiar ground for Andre who spent three months here on an exchange programme in 2014.
In a moment of creative genius Adshel and Genesis Energy have come up with a heated bus shelter for commuters in downtown Auckland. It’s temporary but could be worth a visit if you’re in the area over the next week.
Rail Safety Week may have come and gone but Clemenger BBDO has left us with a new, experimental way to make Kiwis more aware when dealing with railway level crossings.
Heinz Wattie’s have pulled in The Business to launch a fully integrated TTL campaign for Wattie’s Baked Beans and Spaghetti. The campaign hit our screens earlier this month along with Adshels, buses, mall lights, digital, social, limited edition packs and in-store promotions.
A new appointment and two promotions this past week at MediaWorks. David Hine has been appointed GM of 3NOW with two in-house promotions: Ben Quinn to head of acquisitions – TV & Digital and Matt Barthow as channel manager TV3.