BRISBANE, Monday: Michael Hill Jeweller – once renowned as a Kiwi success story – has launched its Christmas campaign with creative from CHE Proximity Sydney.
Pacific Rendezvous
BEIJING, Today: The One Club Greater China has named Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney ECD Rebecca Carrasco and VMLY&R NZ ECD Kim Pick as curators for The One Show Asia Showcase.
Track taps analytics heavyweight
AUCKLAND, Today: DDB’s CRM arm Track Aotearoa has appointed Matt Jarman to the newly created role of head of analytics & insight. He joins Track from Caci London where he was director of data, insight & visualisation for 14 years.
Pecker in a Pickle
AUCKLAND, Today: Headline in this morning’s NZ Herald: Packer’s Pecker in Pickle over Ploy for Pampered Punters.
The Box Endures
AUCKLAND, Sunday: “Television’s randomly curated running anthology of the human condition, reflecting back the madness and marvels of life lived minute-to-minute here on planet Earth, is still the place to be.”
Social media fail
AUCKLAND, Sunday: “The reality is you can do as much as you like on social media but there’s only a certain amount of people on there”.
Hello & Friends tackle breast cancer
AUCKLAND, Today: Local indie Hello has helped launched a new Breast Cancer Cure campaign – with a little help from friends at NZME, MediaWorks, Go Media, JCDecaux, Lumo, QMS, Bekon, Stuff, School Road Publishing, Mindfood, and Shout “and many others”.
Time Travel
PARIS, Today: France-based Stink Studios visited Rakino Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf to shoot this compelling 90-second spot for Swiss luxury watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre, directed by Flying Fish’s Jason Brock.
School’s Out!
AUCKLAND, Today: Digital ad network Scroll Media has signed an exclusive representation agreement with student employment seeker site Student Job Search to offer strategic advertising partnerships.
Short & Suite
LONDON, Today: The shift to short-term planning and a fall in campaign spending by advertisers are the biggest global changes from 2019 to 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to UK site Warc.
