The team are at Film Construction have created Help keep Lifeline Alive campaign in partnership with Hannifin de Joux HDJ.
Better data deals for Spark customers
Spark has announced big improvements to its mobile data plans for new and existing pay-monthly customers, in response to the changes in our mobile use. Spark says customers will get up to 60% more mobile data, along with new data-heavy plans and including Spotify Premium (music streaming) and Lightbox (TV online) in most of its plans.
QMS turns on the Britomart
QMS NZ in conjunction with Auckland Transport have officially switched on the Britomart Towers, a high-profile pair of premium digital sites situated in Auckland’s busy central rail station.
Global IT ace taps Thrive
Leading IT global outfit Cisco has appointed Thrive PR + communications to manage its public relations efforts across Australia and New Zealand. Thrive will work as the exclusive PR agency across all divisions of the Cisco business, following an extensive competitive tender process.
The Monkeys bring a new flavour to Aussie lamb
Cosmopolitan Australia is the theme of a new lamb commercial screening across the Tasman. In one 90 second pan, the commercial features a raft of migrants, two gay dads and a transgender comedian and ends with them all enjoying a barbeque on a grassy cliff top overlooking the ocean.
Agency misfits – and how to handle them
“Whenever I go to America I always feel like I am in a giant sitcom – everything is familiar … a type of television déjà vu,” says DDB NZ chief creative officer Damon Stapleton in a blog he wrote about a trip to the US and how agencies can best handle the misfits who need the space to create.
Epica 2016 presents Europe’s finest
The Epica organisation has announced the full line-up for its 2016 Creative Circle conference, which will be held at The Panama Club in Amsterdam from 9.30am to 5pm on Thursday 17 November.
Gatorade marketing is after brand love not art
Forget art, PepsiCo sports drink Gatorade makes driving “brand love” one of the core goals behind its marketing communications.
Toby Talbot returns for Škoda
With Toby Talbot and Finch at the helm, Skoda’s latest TV campaign deconstructs the cliches played out in car ads telling customers to look beyond the hyperbole at what they are actually buying. The new campaign from DDB Sydney targets ‘Those who buy the car, not the ad’ and features a family of four driving a Skoda Octavia down picturesque, deserted NZ roads to sombre orchestral music.
Kiwi humour a surefire winner
Just one debut this month – FCB’s Mercury Energy rebrand (at #10). No 1 is Kevin Denholm’s Sandpit – clearly the most popular NZ TVC in years.
