HAMILTON, Monday: Digital OOH provider Globox are making moves in the local community through their initiative of community engagement with local businesses and promoting ‘ local’ wherever possible.
Social media marketing academy launched
AUCKLAND, Today: AdHoc/Insightful agency founders Andrew Ferdinando and Dom Hay have built a 10-week interactive programme that aims to add a level of professionalism to social media marketing by arming marketers with a toolkit “full of practical advice, tactics and frameworks to immediately put into action”.
A Summer Pass?
AUCKLAND, Monday: Some of Aotearoa’s favourite artists come together in the latest Karawhiua (Book a Jab) campaign Tō Uru Raumati/Have Yours? out of Fish&Clips. The campaign seeks to encourage and increase vaccination rates for summer.
The future of publishing?
AUCKLAND, Monday: School Road Publishing has appointed Joe France as managing director. Owner Greg Partington said: “The decision to pivot SRP to include a stronger digital play is the obvious future of publishing.”
Togetherness
AUCKLAND, Today: Partners Life has appointed Special Media as its first retained media agency with a remit covering media strategy, planning and buying.
Hire Power
AUCKLAND, Friday: dentsu NZ has announced its engagement of Richard Hollingum as Experience Consulting Practice Lead. dentsu NZ ceo Robert Harvey said: “In a year when dentsu saw 10.2% growth across the APAC region, the New Zealand arm of the global business has continued to make key strategic hires signalling the intention for further growth in 2022.
The Herald loses PR chief
AUCKLAND, Friday: NZME’s Cliff Joiner has departed his wide-ranging role, which included PR with media (like M+AD), to join the BNZ (presumably in a senior comms role).
Hard Labour
AUCKLAND, Sunday: “Meetings can be hard work in that they stop you from working at all,” wrote Herald on Sunday business columnist Paul Catmur. Hard work, indeed!
The return of Toby Talbot
SYDNEY, Sunday: Aussie trade rag Campaign Brief reports that Toby Talbot set to return to a Transtasman role after two years at C14TORCE in Spain.
Short Fuse
AUCKLAND, Today: M+AD’s Pressies report yesterday inexplicably omitted to mention the Gold won by OMG’s content agency Fuse, in Best Integrated Campaign, for its work with The Warehouse.
