AUCKLAND, Today: Jean-Claude Decaux, the French founder of global billboard giant JCDecaux (which now owns NZ’s APN Outdoor) is contributing to the Notre-Dame restoration fund.
Colenso creates Mars Petcare campaign for the dogs of New York
NEW YORK, Thursday: Mars petcare brand Puppo has collaborated with Colenso BBDO to create a bespoke ad for every registered dog in New York City – over 100,000 of them.
Bauer managers buy Autotrader
AUCKLAND, Today: Bauer Media, NZ’s largest magazine publisher, have agreed to sell Autotrader to former managers Ross Logue and Richard East.
Parachute scores Dancing with the Stars
AUCKLAND, Today: The collective at Parachute Music has embarked on a third season of production music for Dancing with the Stars NZ.
NZ app has designs on the US
AUCKLAND, Today: NZ-based creative content company Pitchblack Partners have set their sights on the US with Podium, a new coaching app for runners, launched last week in the US with a full brand design, app design, and ATL campaign.
Waiheke’s Wonder Women
AUCKLAND, Today: A hard-bitten, gimlet-eyed PR person feeling “isolated and depressed”? A contradiction in terms, surely? But it was reality to NSPR founder Niki Schuck when she moved from her hometown Dunedin to Waiheke Island in 2014.
See you Tuesday
AUCKLAND, Today: A very quiet day for industry news today – due, of course, to the onset of the four-day Easter break.
New Zealand’s answer to Facebook?
AUCKLAND, Today: KPEX is New Zealand’s second-largest online media platform, after Google. “It offers greater audience reach than Facebook and YouTube combined in this region,” says Kiwi Premium Ad Exchange ceo Simon Birkenhead.
Arrivals & Departures: Perceptive taps software developer
AUCKLAND, Today: Leading customer intelligence agency Perceptive has appointed Sangeeta Kaydan to the role of senior software developer in NZ.
New categories
SINGAPORE, Wednesday: The Spikes Asia Creative Awards has issued its 2019 call for entries – this year with new categories, and other spruce-up changes.
