AUCKLAND, Today: Director Tom Gould, who recently signed with Sweetshop globally, has returned from New York to New Zealand – where he’s now waiting out his last week of quarantine.
Epica Extends
PARIS, Today: The Epica Awards has extended its deadline to Monday 2 November 2. M+AD is a judge this year (you may find our home page in the collection, above).
Out of the Blue
BRISBANE, Monday: Michael Hill Jeweller – once renowned as a Kiwi success story – has launched its Christmas campaign with creative from CHE Proximity Sydney.
Pacific Rendezvous
BEIJING, Today: The One Club Greater China has named Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney ECD Rebecca Carrasco and VMLY&R NZ ECD Kim Pick as curators for The One Show Asia Showcase.
Track taps analytics heavyweight
AUCKLAND, Today: DDB’s CRM arm Track Aotearoa has appointed Matt Jarman to the newly created role of head of analytics & insight. He joins Track from Caci London where he was director of data, insight & visualisation for 14 years.
Pecker in a Pickle
AUCKLAND, Today: Headline in this morning’s NZ Herald: Packer’s Pecker in Pickle over Ploy for Pampered Punters.
The Box Endures
AUCKLAND, Sunday: “Television’s randomly curated running anthology of the human condition, reflecting back the madness and marvels of life lived minute-to-minute here on planet Earth, is still the place to be.”
Social media fail
AUCKLAND, Sunday: “The reality is you can do as much as you like on social media but there’s only a certain amount of people on there”.
Hello & Friends tackle breast cancer
AUCKLAND, Today: Local indie Hello has helped launched a new Breast Cancer Cure campaign – with a little help from friends at NZME, MediaWorks, Go Media, JCDecaux, Lumo, QMS, Bekon, Stuff, School Road Publishing, Mindfood, and Shout “and many others”.
Time Travel
PARIS, Today: France-based Stink Studios visited Rakino Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf to shoot this compelling 90-second spot for Swiss luxury watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre, directed by Flying Fish’s Jason Brock.
