AUCKLAND, Today: Christmas lunch comes with a fair bit of pressure, especially when you're hosting for the first time. New World and McCann New Zealand are embracing those familiar festive nerves in... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Two familiar faces are taking on bigger responsibilities at Publicis Groupe NZ, with Kyra Lyden and Amy Greene stepping into senior leadership roles designed to bring the group's strategic talent... Read More
AUCKLAND, Monday: Auckland indie Màgico, with TVNZ production shop Blacksand, has created a new 30sec tvc, A Little Love Goes a Long Way, for Naked Locals premium chilled soups. Read More
WELLINGTON, Monday: Media intelligence insights provider Isentia, which bills itself as “APAC-based”, has been recognised as a global leader in comms research, winning five awards at the 2020 AMEC Communication Effectiveness Awards... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: MDS AdSchool CD Kate Humphries is glowing at the news that at MDS team won Wood Pencil at D&AD London’s New Blood Awards. Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: AUT ad creativity lecturer Dan Fastnedge has penned a passionate piece on the role of Kiwis’ unique sense of humour – and tighter agency-client relationships – in the nation’s post-Covid... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Indie Parnell shop Farrimond created the nationwide TV campaign launched yesterday for RB Hygiene disinfectant brand Glen 20 – made with an affecting simplicity to plug the post-Covid services of... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: The most-read story in M+AD’s daily email last week was Friday’s Not Wanted piece about the painful, voluntary post-Covid redundancies at Colenso BBDO. Read More
LONDON, Today: A student creative team from Auckland’s Media Design School has won a Wood Pencil at the 2020 D&AD New Blood Awards – the only NZ entry to win a Pencil. Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: A new agency, Serious, has been launched “in close partnership” with PHD Group to help brands navigate crises like Covid-19. Read More
AUCKLAND, Thursday: Colenso creative chairman Nick Worthington is recovering from a bicycle accident in Auckland late last week. Apparently he escaped the downsizing at the agency that’s seen the departure of the... Read More
AUCKLAND, Thursday: More than a dozen Colenso BBDO fulltime staffers – including ECD Steve Cochran and CD/head of art Mike Davison – have taken voluntary redundancy deals, the result of the financial... Read More