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.
Epica shortlist hat-trick
PARIS, Thursday: North Shore-based creative agency Yarn picked up NZ’s three finalist spots at The Epica Awards 2021 – all for Tourism New Zealand’s Please Don’t Travel Under The Social Influence.
Nielsen Newspaper/Magazine toplines
AUCKLAND, Thursday: NZ print media circulations held up well over the past 12 months, according to the latest year-on-year Nielsen newspaper & magazine topline study. Overall, rises in both sectors outnumbered falls.
Genesis offshoot rebrands
HAMILTON, Wednesday: Motion Sickness client, Genesis-owned Energy Online – a one-stop shop for electricity, gas and LPG – is being rebranded to Frank*Energy “to reflect the new direction, offering and attitude it will bring to the market”.
