NEW YORK, Today: Wunderman Inc founder/chairman Lester Wunderman – direct marketing trailblazer extraordinaire – died last week (on January 9) of natural causes. He was 98 years old.
Colmar Brunton quits Top 10
AUCKLAND, Today: Colmar Brunton Research – a division of Kantar NZ – appears to be cutting back on its interface with the ad sector, by cancelling production of M+AD’s popular Top 10 TVCs monthly feature.
Lumo enlists Aussie standards consultant
AUCKLAND, Today: Lumo Digital Outdoor is introducing what it calls “world-first standards in out-of-home reporting data” to the NZ market through a new contract with Australian-based reporting platform Seedooh.
Arrivals & Departures: Derek Lindsay exits OMANZ
AUCKLAND, Today: Outdoor Media Association general manager Derek Lindsay has resigned to pursue private projects. OMANZ is now looking for a new GM (scroll down for the link).
Trackside adrenalin
WELLINGTON, Today: Fish Entertainment – the filmmaking division of Flying Fish – is lending its weight to speedway dirt-track racing, with moral support for a short doco, She Speeds, about fourth-generation Kiwi driver Brooke Clarkson.
Kia Ora, 2019
AUCKLAND, Today: Just two members of the comms business – both outstanding newspaper veterans – were deemed worthy of a New Year honour in 2019. That’s right – not an ad or PR person in sight.
Arrivals & Departures: Paul Catmur steps aside from MD role
AUCKLAND, Today: BC&F Dentsu has appointed Murray Streets to lead the agency as managing director. Streets joins from FCB where he was general manager – integrated strategy, and is taking over the reins from Paul Catmur, who will stay on to be involved with creative output for the agency.
Ex-Saatchi NZ CD Tom Eslinger joins US PR shop
NEW YORK, Friday: Former Saatchi & Saatchi NZ creative director Tom Eslinger – an American who spent 15 years in NZ from 1990 to 2005 – has been named global chief creative officer of Y&R Group agency Burson-Marsteller, a global strategic communications & PR firm based in New York.
Arrivals & Departures: New senior hire at Perceptive
AUCKLAND, Today: Customer intelligence agency Perceptive – part of the Clemenger Group – has appointed Peter Thomson as director of strategy.
VMLY&R & MBM set pulses racing
AUCKLAND, Jan 1: VMLY&R NZ and MBM have released their latest TAB campaign. “The Summer of Racing campaign seeks to add excitement to the season by encouraging New Zealanders to place a bet at one of the summer’s racing events,” says CD Guy Denniston.
