APN Outdoor has released the voting numbers for the charities competing in its 2016 creative competition, Pixel361° – won in impressive style by Rainger & Rolfe client the Child Cancer Foundation.
Arrivals & Departures: Bravo taps Maria Mahony
MediaWorks and its Bravo joint-venture partner NBCUniversal International Networks has appointed Maria Mahony as General Manager for Bravo New Zealand, and confirmed its five directors.
Nielsen NZ ‘committed to global vision’
Nielsen NZ has responded to news that Nielsen US has updated its total audience metric to better reflect changes in TV viewing habits.
Magic moments
Spark and Colenso BBDO really do make magic happen in their deeply affecting new brand film out of Thick As Thieves (the name of the director was not available at press time – but M+AD reckons he/she has a rare talent).
Arrivals & Departures: PHD taps Forsyth Thompson, Spark PR & Activate welcomes back Katie Walton
PHD has appointed Forsyth Thompson to the newly created role of Head of Performance. Forsyth, who joins the agency on 1 August, will take charge of leading integration and performance across both Search and Programmatic.
Fatherless boys in focus
Auckland agencies justONE and .99 have forged a new campaign for Big Buddy, the mentoring charity for fatherless boys.
Ex-Scarfie’s agency creates new Otago campaign
Auckland agency Rainger & Rolfe, with Film Construction and Blockhead, has created a new campaign for the University of Otago.
Using Data to challenge NZ’s Alpha Media
By Sophie Radford, Sales Director NZ, Exponential: The announcement that NZME and Fairfax NZ are hoping to merge in order to build a media company to fight off the impact of Google and Facebook, threw the issue of scale back into the spotlight.
Colenso shines in Sydney
Colenso BBDO’s remarkable creative record over the past year – led only partly by the mighty DB Export Brewtroleum – has propelled the Auckland shop to the Creative Agency of the Year prize at the Mumbrella Awards in Sydney.
Arrivals & Departures: Publishing legend quits NZME
After two years in the job, NZME commercial director Sandra King has resigned – apparently to set up her own business.
