AUCKLAND, Today: This weekend is another long one – with Monday being Queen’s Birthday. So, as is usual on these occasions, M+AD Daily will not be pubished.
Ogilvy NZ assembles new team (updated)
AUCKLAND, Today: Ogilvy NZ will release details of its new management structure next week following the exit of managing director Mark Jenner, who left last month.
Family Matters
AUCKLAND, Today: Rainger & Rolfe CD Chris Long has taken time out to deal with family health issues – but will continue to work with the agency on a day-to-day basis.
Another Hat-Trick
NEW YORK, Today: NZME has won three global media awards overnight – one of only three media companies in the world to collect three or more first-place trophies at the International News Media Association Awards, hosted virtually from the USA.
You’ve Got Female
AUCKLAND, Today: DDB Group Aotearoa has appointed Priya Patel as its new ceo – the first time the agency has tapped a female for the role. She will now relocate from Australia.
Pedal power
AUCKLAND, Today: Leveraging the insight that many Aucklanders tried cycling in their neighbourhoods for the first time during lockdown last year, Auckland Transport and Federation successfully launched a summer cycling campaign to actively encourage regular, more purposeful short commutes to the shops, Saturday sports, and even trips to the beach.
Extra trans-Tasman flights
AUCKLAND, Thursday: DHL Express, with Kingsland indie Darkhorse, has launched a campaign to promote its additional dedicated trans-Tasman aircraft, which directly connects Auckland and Christchurch to Melbourne.
oOh! walks the talk
AUCKLAND, Today: As a long standing partner and supporter of Youthline, oOh!media has signed up the oOh! team for Walk the Talk and challenged their own clients to get on board.
How Great Thou Art
AUCKLAND, Today: Long-established Kiwi promoter Stewart Macpherson (who operates under the moniker Stetson Productions) is offering agency clients a piece of the action in his latest project – an exhibition of high-quality reproductions of the frescoes of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.
Global ambitions
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Interpublic Group has sold a majority of its stake in Australian creative agency 303 MullenLowe and a minority of its stake in sister media agency Mediahub.
