CANNES, Sunday: The Epica Awards has underlined its positioning in the awards landscape with a new advertising campaign from Hecho Studios Amsterdam, reminding potential entrants that it’s time to leave the “self love” to other awards.
CANNES, Last Night: Clemenger BBDO has tonight converted one of its four finalists in the Radio/Audio category into a Bronze Lion – taking NZ’s tally to five Bronzes, but still no Silvers or Golds.
AUCKLAND, Today: Digital ad sales company Scroll Media has made two senior hires – Vinay Shriyan and Megan Keene. Shriyan joins as programmatic & operations director to manage the operational side of the business. He has years of technical experience at realestate.co.nz and stuff.co.nz and Acquire Online and will use his experience to develop several new integrated placements including native, data capture and carousels.
AUCKLAND, Thursday: Rises across the board were recorded for most NZ magazine titles in the latest Nielsen Magazine Readership Toplines research, released late today.
AUCKLAND, Thursday: Arch-rivals Stuff & the NZ Herald are today celebrating successful outcomes from the Nielsen Magazine & Newspaper Readership Toplines for Quarter 1 2019, released late today.
AUCKLAND, Today: Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB) has launched Rules of a f***buddy, the latest campaign from Ending HIV – a community-focused behaviour change programme run by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation to reach men who have sex with men.
AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has posted on its website the official entry call for the 2019 Effie Awards. A formal announcement can be expected shortly.
AUCKLAND, Today: Melanie Spencer joins social media agency Socialites as managing partner, alongside founder/ceo Wendy Thompson, with a remit to help grow the business.