AUCKLAND, Today: DDB has collected 22 finalist spots for Effie 2020, ahead of TBWA with 11, Dentsu nine, Saatchi & Saatchi eight, Stanley St seven, Special Group six and Pitchblack three.
Lumo & Val step up
SYDNEY, Today: Vistar Media, a leading global provider of software for digital-out-of-home, is launching programmatic capabilities in New Zealand.
One Show eyes NZ work
NEW YORK, Today: The One Club Greater China has chosen to transform its annual Greater China Awards into a free-to-enter region-wide creative showcase. It’s called The One Show Asia Pacific Showcase – and now includes Australia & NZ.
$2.5 trillion!
LONDON, Today: Global online retail sales will grow from US$1.5 trillion in 2019 to US$2.5 trillion in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.3%, according to a new forecast by Forrester Research, published by Warc.
Gold for Fuse, OMD
MILAN, Today: NZ agencies Fuse and OMD – with client Kiwibank – have won two Gold Medals at the M&M Global Awards 2020 in Italy overnight.
Double Exposure
AUCKLAND, Today: QMS has introduced “the biggest bus panel to ever roam our streets”. Dubbed The Showstopper, it’s a full double-decker side panel offering over 50sqm of creative impact.
Colossus of Roads
ZURICH, Today: The World Out of Home Organisation’s #OurSecondChance campaign has appeared on 40,000 digital screens worldwide, making it easily the biggest all-format digital out-of-home campaign ever launched.
Metallica Man
LONDON, Monday: UK-based R/GA EMEA head of strategy Rob Campbell is to join Colenso BBDO early next year as chief strategy officer.
Free Premium for schools
AUCKLAND, Today: NZME has released new figures for its NZ Herald Premium online subscription news service – since launching in April last year, the daily numbers have reached 82,000.
External ‘Bias’ Outed
AUCKLAND, Today: NZ advertisers can ‘shop local’ by choosing domestic media platforms, says Sydney-based James Bayes, the AUNZ GM of global demand-side platform The Trade Desk.
