HELSINKI, Today: Burger King Finland and its agency TBWA\Helsinki has turned the fast-food brand war upside down with a declaration of love to global competitor McDonald’s.
Clean Sweep
AUCKLAND, Friday: The Student Orca winner and runner up places have been announced with Media Design School students James McCulloch & Kathryn Prince winning the Outstanding Radio Creative Award.
Black Beauty
LONDON, Friday: Almost slipping under the radar at D&AD last week was a remarkable Black Pencil win by an expat Kiwi who’s set up a typeface design shop in the UK.
Bauer exit distorts mag readerhip
AUCKLAND, Today: NZ’s weekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly and six-monthly magazine titles tumbled in the latest Nielsen magazine readership toplines for Q3/2019 to Q2/2020.
The X Factor
AUCKLAND, Today: NZ-owned indie integrated agency Federation, continuing a recent surge of hires, has welcomed three new recruits to its Client Service and Design teams.
Print Comeback (Updated)
AUCKLAND, Today: The latest Nielsen National Readership Survey (for Q2/2020) is full of good news for the print editions of NZ’s daily newspapers, with all our dailies recording impressive quarterly increases (from Q3/2019).
Modus Operandi
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Creative tech studio Method has bolstered its team with four recent hires – Dom Henshall, Nick Piper, Hannah Rogers, and Sophie Douglas.
Partners in Action
AUCKLAND, Today: Avondale-based independent production specialists Production Partners is bringing on a new partner. Olivia Duthie has worked with the team for three years and is now joining Lee Shaw as partner to continue to evolve the business and deliver on their promise of “innovation made easy”.
Warm Reception
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Two big winners at The Radio Bureau’s 2020 Orcas, announced yesterday – the Grand Orca went to Stanley St creatives Tim Thach & Brooke Wiley, and the People’s Choice winners – for the second time running – were David Shirley & Melina Fiolitakis from FCB.
