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Arrivals & Departures: Carat lures Alex Lawson from ZO

Editor July 25, 2016A+D, News Make a Comment

Carat NZ has this morning announced the appointment of Alex Lawson to the role of Group Business Director. Lawson joins Carat from ZenithOptimedia where he was Group Business Director; he has also held roles at APN News & Media, Mediaedge and MediaCom. Well regarded in the industry, he was a 2015 finalist for Campaign APAC’s Account Person of the Year.

NZ shines in Samsung’s Olympics Anthem

Editor July 25, 2016News Make a Comment

Leo Burnett Chicago and Sydney are behind the latest TV and digital campaign promoting both the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and the Rio Olympics with a mash-up of national anthems to form what’s been called a song of international unity.

McDonald’s NZ hits the headlines with promo that went wrong

Editor July 25, 2016News Make a Comment

McDonald’s New Zealand has pulled its Make Burger History website after being flooded with offensive and inappropriate creations. The failed design and name-your-burger promo has made headlines after it was hijacked by pranksters.

Arrivals & Departures: O&M gets a leg rope on Glenn Wood

Editor July 25, 2016A+D, News Make a Comment

Veteran copywriter, published author and awarded creative Glenn Wood has joined Ogilvy & Mather full time in the role of Creative Director, following a recent freelance role with the agency.

Arrivals & Departures: QMS taps Steve Simpson

Editor July 22, 2016A+D, News Make a Comment

Following business growth and expansion, QMS Media NZ says it is pleased to announce the promotion of Steve Simpson to the newly created position of Agency Sales Director.

No static in latest radio surveys

Editor July 22, 2016News Make a Comment

The Edge, Newstalk ZB, More, and Breeze are the top four networks to emerge from the GfK national radio survey, released yesterday. One of the brighter spots on the radio dial these days is Radio Live, but its listenership showed only a small upward movement, and MediaWorks will be disappointed.

Blind Vodafone stuntman in hi-octane feat

Editor July 22, 2016TVCs, News Make a Comment

FCB helped Vodafone pull off one of its more innovative marketing activations with a high- risk stunt featuring Kiwi drift car ace Mad Mike Whiddett, and the company’s own 4G network director Tony Baird.

Creative epicentre of Europe could shift

Editor July 22, 2016News Make a Comment

Gloom, hope and confusion in equal measure when the US-based Midas Awards polled its international network of agency and industry creatives for their views on how Britain’s historic exit from the European Union might impact the ad world.

The best Air NZ safety vid?

Editor July 22, 2016TVCs, News Make a Comment

Veteran Kiwi TVC director Steve Saussey, formerly of Film Construction (and a copywriter at Mojo Auckland), and now at new Sydney producer Jungle Films, was at the helm of the latest Air NZ safety video, Safety in Hollywood, a blockbuster hailed by many as a masterpiece.

Jake the Muss back for Women’s Refuge

Editor July 21, 2016TVCs, News Make a Comment

Wellington agency Doublefish has persuaded Once Were Warriors star Temuera Morrison to relive his screen role as wife-beater Jake the Muss to help raise funds for the Women’s Refuge annual appeal, which runs through July.

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