AUCKLAND, Today: Hugh Rennie’s long-awaited book on the history of a Kiwi financial institution – The first two decades of National Business Review, 1970-1991 – is out now.
Lift for 10,000 Kiwi Kids
AUCKLAND, Monday: DDB’s CRM arm Track Aotearoa has developed a new advertising programme for KidsCan, which is dealing with an extra 10,000 children needing their help in the wake of Covid-19.
Vale Chris Jagusch
CHRISTCHURCH, Today: It is with sadness M+AD reports the September 5 death of senior media executive Chris Jagusch. Few details were available at press time (including the circumstances of his passing, his age, and his descendants).
A Place in the Sun
AUCKLAND, Today: Waiheke Island Tourism has appointed NSPR as its first PR agency. There was no pitch.
All Together Now …
AUCKLAND, Today: Indie media agency Together has appointed leading data and analytics practitioner Torsten Stolt to the new role of data & analytics director.
Ovation from Iceland
AUCKLAND, Today: Independent NZ power company Electric Kiwi – with help from Lassoo Media & PR – turned the ad world upside down last week with a win in the (wait for it) … Icelandic Charge Energy Awards.
Waste management
WELLINGTON, Friday: Clemenger, with Assembly in the production chair, has created a new climate-change campaign, Say No to Wasted Energy, for the Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority’s Gen Less platform, which aims to inspire New Zealanders to use less harmful energy.
Tough Enough?
AUCKLAND, Today: Following the success of several high-profile campaigns – including A Moment Against Silence and The Mensus – dentsu and Movember have created a campaign they say “challenges the very fabric of what it means to be a Kiwi man”.
The Gold Miners – DDB, TBWA, Special
AUCKLAND, Thursday: Of the 10 Golds awarded at last night’s 2020 live virtual Effie Awards, two went to TBWA for their work with 2degrees on “Fighting our Way to our Most Profitable Year Ever” in the Consumer Services category, and for “How a Nature-Powered Ram Led the Charge to a Complete Market Share Turnaround” for ANZ Bank, in the Most Effective Integrated Campaign category.
