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.
Go Media fires up new screens in Gisborne
AUCKLAND, Last month: New Zealand out-of-home company Go Media is claiming a world first for its two new digital screens in NZ’s most western point at Gisborne – the first ad signs to see the light of a new day.
A weeng and a prayer
SYDNEY, Friday: Air New Zealand has created a campaign aimed at getting more Singaporeans to visit New Zealand.
DDB, Colenso, FCB in spotlight as NZ over-achieves in global rankings
New Zealand has been ranked 5th best nation in the world – based on global creative ranking points accumulated in 2018, compiled by Aussie site Bestadsontv.
Arrivals & Departures: FCB taps Paul Shale
AUCKLAND, Thursday: FCB New Zealand has today confirmed the appointment of Paul Shale as ceo – following the sudden exit last July of Don Martin, and Brian van den Hurk, who left in December 2016.
