WELLINGTON, Today: Creative agency Doublefish has created a confronting new campaign to raise funds for Women’s Refuge’s Winter Appeal Month.
Thrive PR taps Victoria Fruean & Natasha D’Souza
AUCKLAND, Today: Independent agency Thrive PR + Communications has grown its team with the appointment of Victoria Fruean as group account director and Natasha D’Souza as senior account manager.
99 introduces Mazda Gen 7 (Updated)
AUCKLAND, Today: 99 has created a campaign for the seventh generation of Mazda, which has landed in New Zealand. ECD Mick Stalker said: “It’s Mazda3 but not as you’ve seen it before.”
Trade Me enlists first long-term agency

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Trade Me has chosen Clemenger Group agencies – Clemenger BBDO Wellington and Colenso BBDO Auckland – as the online platform’s first fulltime agency of record.
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Levi Slavin to speak at Spikes
SINGAPORE, Today: Levi Slavin, chief creative officer at Colenso BBDO, is one of 20 international speakers who will speak at this year’s Spikes Asia.
Clemenger applies heat to cellphone drivers
WELLINGTON, Today: Clemenger BBDO has created a hard-hitting cellphone safety campaign, fetchingly titled Let Driving Distract You, for the NZ Transport Agency.
KPEX boosts transparency (Updated)

AUCKLAND, Today: Premium ad exchange shop KPEX (NZ’s second-largest online media platform) has entered into an agreement with Xandr’s AppNexus to make seller technology fees on each impression sold through the AppNexus SSP available confidentially to buyers transacting with KPEX.
Val Morgan NZ beefs up
AUCKLAND, Today: Val Morgan Group has unveiled key appointments and promotions to their New Zealand leadership team. NZ sales director Matt Tremain has taken on a group role leading the teams across its Val Morgan Cinema and VMO businesses effective immediately.
Google NZ creates marketing role
AUCKLAND, Monday: Google New Zealand has promoted Susan Carlton to the newly created position of marketing manager.