AUCKLAND, Today: NZME has announced that Greg Cassidy has taken up the role of head of NZME’s online/print automotive platform Driven.
Singapore deadline looms
New Zealand agencies have just 10 days to enter the 2018 Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity, due to be held in Singapore from Wednesday 26 September to Friday 28 September.
New Business Wins for MBM
Winter proving to be the winning season for MBM. Off the back of a record year in 2017, the Auckland/Wellington indie media agency MBM reports that it is enjoying a cracking 2018 with three great new business wins coming in over the last couple of months.
Arrivals & Departures: Track NZ bolsters strategy team
Downtown Auckland-based Track NZ has appointed Jodie Armstrong-Downes as planning director, strengthening its strategy and planning division.
Cigarette giant hires McCann agency
TOKYO, Sunday: In a move reflecting the changing dynamics between Big Tobacco and advertising, Philip Morris International has appointed Thirteen, a Japanese creative agency owned by McCann Worldgroup, on a project basis for an undisclosed product launch around its IQOS heated tobacco brand.
DDB wins KiwiRail pitch
WELLINGTON, Today: State-Owned Enterprise KiwiRail has announced its appointment of DDB as creative agency following a competitive pitch involving five agencies. The incumbent was Clemenger BBDO.
Why planning is an outdoor job
For planners, spending time outside the bubble of Adland is a necessity, argues Deutsch’s Rob Campbell in an essay for WARC’s Future of Strategy report 2018 (published yesterday – scroll down for the link to the full story).
Terabyte joins forces with Social Envy
Parnell-based full service digital and brand agency Terabyte has joined forces with another Aucklandbased agency – social media specialist Social Envy.
Arrivals & Departures: ‘Provocative’ Kiwi director signs with Curious
Sasha Rainbow, a winner at London’s Voice of a Woman 2018*, is joining Curious Films. NZ MD/exec producer Kate Roydhouse says when saw her work at Cannes she knew she had to sign her immediately.
Arrivals & Departures: Sweetshop signs director Jakob Marky
Sweetshop has signed director Jakob Marky for representation globally, excluding Europe. “Jakob has always had a fascination for stories and how to make them come alive,” says ceo/partner Wilf Sweetland.
