SINGAPORE, Today: Netherlands production company MediaMonks and Takapuna-based global consultancy MightyHive have hired Aucklander Tom Braybrook as their VP, head of growth, AUNZ.
Venutto on Cochrane
AUCKLAND, Monday: Saatchi & Saatchi might still be the most famous name in New Zealand advertising pop culture, but it now languishes behind DDB, FCB, Colenso BBDO and Stanley St – a situation recently appointed ceo Mark Cochrane is working to restore, according to an in-depth Damien Venuto profile published in Anzac Day’s NZ Herald.
WPP targets net zero emissions
LONDON, Friday: In what WPP claims is “a first for the industry”, the ad giant has committed to reaching net zero in the emissions generated by the placement of advertising in the media for its clients.
No M+AD Monday
AUCKLAND, Today: Anzac Day is a public holiday in New Zealand this Monday (26 April). As usual, there’ll be no emailed M+AD – but our website will still be active.
Webbys updated
AUCKLAND, Today: Yesterday’s list of Webbys nominees and honorees – culled in haste on deadline from a complex web link – needs updating …
Action Plan
AUCKLAND, Thursday: TBWA\NZ Group has grown its strategy team with three new hires – Josh Taylor-Dadds, Rebekah Gierlinska and Lloyd Thomason.
Hitchhikers Guide to Verse
AUCKLAND, Today: Phantom National Poetry Day is happening again this August. The company will be promoting New Zealand poets on their posters (naturally).
One Show’s Kiwi jurists
NEW YORK, Today: The One Club for Creativity has appointed three Kiwi agency senior creatives to help judge The One Show 202 …
Orca 2021 – the judges
AUCKLAND, Today: The judging panel for The Radio Bureau’s Orca Awards was unveiled this morning. It includes five prominent agency creatives …
The Butterfly Effect
AUCKLAND, Today: Indie agency Federation has delivered its own climate change message to New Zealand, taking a full page advertisement in this morning’s NZ Herald to celebrate Earth Day.
