AUCKLAND, Today: Special Group’s Good Morning World campaign for Tourism New Zealand has won another Campaign of the Year title, this time at the Australian Mumbrella Agency of the Year Awards.
Epica’s Tungate interviews himself
PARIS, Thursday: Epica Awards operations director Nicolas Huvé writes: “Here in Paris, Autumn is slowly settling in, but no time to jump in the leaves as we are full steam ahead in our entry season.
Smart Move
AUCKLAND, Today: China/Germany-based smartphone company Oppo NZ has appointed Rachel Weiss to the newly created role of PR & events manager in New Zealand, joining from Pead PR.
RIP Top Dog
AUCKLAND, Thursday: Phantom Billstickers are mourning the passing of Ray, the pup who inspired the company’s bulldog logo. “At Phantom we have a distinctively canine logo,” says managing partner Robin McDonnell.
Second that Emotion
AUCKLAND, Today: NZ indie Federation has launched a new division – called The Lab – which aims to fuse human emotion into marketing technology, optimising martech investment and “communicating with ‘heart’ to customers”.
Crave’s new public art space
AUCKLAND, Today: Creative indie Crave Global has launched plans for The Lightship, a new platform for contemporary art, which launches today at Ports of Auckland.
Outlook: Grim
AUCKLAND, Today: An anonymous NZ agency insider is painting a bleak picture of the current Covid-afflicted ad world – a picture that starkly contrasts with the sector’s optimistic PR pose.
Judgement Day
AUCKLAND, Today: The 2020 Effie Awards is to be a virtual live show, held later this month (on Thursday 29 October) from 5pm until 6:30pm (scroll down for the link). Kiwi comedian Hayley Sproull is the MC.
Soul Survivor
AUCKLAND, Today: BC&F Dentsu founder/ECD Paul Catmur has grown his arresting podcast series since it launched a year ago. His latest additions are Waikato Uni global creativity specialists Mark Kilgour & Huw O’Connor.
