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The booked-out sign’s gone up for tonight’s APN Outdoor Friends In High Places summer party at Mantells on the Water. “The party is actually over capacity right now,” said APNO spokesperson Linda Moussa. “The response to this one has been huge – it’s drawn the most RSVPs to date.” Capacity at Mantells is 450.
The Droga5 agency network (Sydney, New York, Auckland) has unveiled a strategic investment from a group led by American entrepreneur and private equity investor Henry Silverman, and including Clear Channel ceo (and MTV founder) Bob Pittman and others.
Premier Auckland design event Urbis Designday returns for a 7th year on Saturday 24 March. Essentially it’s chauffeured tour of top Auckland design establishments and showrooms, with an endless flow of taxis guaranteeing tourists’ flexibility.
InMobi, billed as the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, has launched in NZ. “The NZ mobile advertising market is poised to boom with ad impressions on smartphones increasing 285% in the past year,” says the company’s new head of sales, Mark Copplestone (see Arrivals & Departures).
InMobi, the global mobile ad network that’s just landed in Auckland, has appointed Mark Copplestone (ex Groupon, TVNZ gm digital sales, Optimedia managing partner) as head of sales. Contact him at mark.copplestone@inmobi.com. (See also InMobi story, above.)
Colenso has taken its DB Export Dry Morton Coutts campaign to a new level, adding humour to the mix in The Great Wine Depression – the looks on the faces of the male ‘wine-lovers’ alone is worth the price of admission.
“Advertising, design and digital agencies in Auckland can look forward to even more loving from The Pond,” says Leighton Howl (021 971 769), announcing the addition of Claire Moore as the fourth talent manager. “Readers may already know Claire as a former consultant at 3rdeye Recruitment. She’s also held senior positions at Wellington indie Wonderful, [...]
BNZ has confirmed it is looking for a new media agency after its agency, Spark PHD, won ANZ Australasia. Fastline was unable to contact BNZ external relations manager Erica Lloyd, but NBR’s Alex Walls did – and the rumour was confirmed.
The pr shop (motto: Providing no-bullshit PR on both sides of the Tasman) has appointed Amanda Kuhn as head of PR in its Sydney office. She’s a former international marketing manager for World Wrestling Entertainment; most recently she worked with a Sydney PR firm as account director.
Nickelodeon NZ & Australia has promoted Tina McIntosh as its Sydney-based director of marketing and commercial partnerships. The appointment is an internal transfer within Viacom – McIntosh was previously director of marketing & comms at MTV & Comedy Central. Contact her through debbie@noodlehq.co.nz.
The Libra Tampons Drag Queen ad that the manufacturer pulled from NZ screens after a wave of protest has been cleared by Australia’s Advertising Standards Board and continues to screen in Australia, where it’s met a similar storm of criticism.
Lovely stop-motion animation combined with a catchy pop guitar melody marks Yukfoo’s new work for Gatecrasher Advertising Perth as something special. Making Shapes features a close-up of kids walking in sturdy school shoes before the camera zooms up and away, and the kids become animated coloured dots on the screen.
A recent Stop Press news report, headlined Mass Exodus at NBR – Last Out Please Turn Off the Lights, was pure beat-up. It refers to just five departures – one of them a junior reporter who left last year (to become a teacher).
Trade Me has appointed Natalia Lee to a newly created position of national sales manager. “Over the past two years she’s delivered outstanding results within the Auckland sales team especially with her work around the new targeting technologies now available on the Trade Me network,” says Trade Me head of advertising Yael Milbank.
The deadline for the Fairfax AdMedia Agency of the Year Awards (held in association with CAANZ) passed on Monday, and the entries have been forwarded to our judges – Joan Withers (Mighty River Power chair), Ross Goldsack (former executive chair of Y&R), Roger MacDonnell (former Colenso BBDO chair, and current TVNZ board member) and Brian [...]
A strong contingent of six judges from NZ will join their Aussie counterparts next week for the AWARD judging in Sydney:
The first 10 agencies to book full-page ads in the Herald’s bimonthly Outdoors magazine will win a place for themselves and their client in Outdoors’ Inter-Agency Fishing Competition.
Hallenstein Brothers has been helping to dress lads in NZ for years and, as a result, knows a thing or two about the NZ male. In saying that, it doesn’t take an expert to know that being romantic is not exactly one of their strong points.
Saatchi devised a perfectly macho Tui Valentine gift – a bunch of Tui DIY roses. Just tear out the Herald ad and roll it up. Meaning you can keep your dosh for a dozen of another kind. And you’ll be out of Intensive Care in no time.
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