AUCKLAND, Today: 147-year-old crown-owned entity Public Trust has appointed Special Group as its lead brand agency following a competitive pitch.
The Second Coming
LONDON, Monday: The World Out of Home Organisation (WOO – formerly known as FEPE) is launching a worldwide digital campaign, OurSecondChance, from recently appointed UK creative agency New Commercial Arts.
Return to Sender
AUCKLAND, Monday: Multi-awarded Kiwi creative Simon Vicars, former creative director at adam&eve DDB London, has returned to Colenso BBDO as executive creative director.
Finally Made It!
AUCKLAND, Today: Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand has appointed Steve Cochran as their new chief creative officer. He replaces the agency’s former CCO Toby Talbot, who moved to Barcelona with the DDB Network in February.
Elite numbers for M+AD
AUCKLAND, Today: M+AD’s daily email set new readership records on Thursday, scoring over 7000 individual page views hourly.
Ex Machina
AUCKLAND, Today: Techweek2020 – a national online celebration of tech & innovation presented by NZTech – starts today and runs through to Friday 2 August.
Carat got the nod
AUCKLAND, Today: Countdown will be moving its media strategy, planning and buying to Dentsu media agency Carat, effective from September.
Cause + Effect
CANNES, Today: The upcoming Lions festival is squeezing good value out of senior NZ adman James Hurman – they’ve tapped him for online Q+A video sessions next week.
