The RAPP team consisting of creative director Jason Hall, copywriter Kathy Riley, designer Asher Hutchings and Rachel Street on production duties has taken victory in the latest round of New Zealand Post’s Art of the Envelope awards for ‘Look Smart’, a piece to celebrate the launch of the National Bank’s Visa Debit card.
Those creatives grow up so fast these days don’t they? Soon enough they’ll be getting told to shut up by Devo for talking during speeches at the Axis awards (if they’re lucky enough to get jobs when they graduate). So if you want to see what the young whippersnappers from the AUT Adschool have been up to in 2010, make sure you head along to the end of year show on Tuesday 9 November at Film Construction, 22 Minnie St, Eden Terrace. It’s industry only from 5.30pm to 7pm, then the hoards of parents, pals and pets get to have a gander from 7-9pm. And, as is the custom during the burgeoning festive season, the drinks and nibbles will be plentiful. Here’s what some of the young’uns produced last year.
The Val Morgan Cinema Network is hosting a 3D Cinema Advertising Showcase next Tuesday night at Sylvia Park. But wait, there’s more than just a selection of awesome 3D ads from around the globe on display. All those who attend will also get to see an advanced screening of David Fincher’s The Social Network, a tale of mystery, intrigue, extremely wealthy nerds and banal status updates.
For all those looking for some insight into the latest global trends in the realm of unaddressed mail and catalogues, the ‘International Catalogue Exhibition’, which is sponsored by PMP Distribution, is being held over three days (26-28 October) at Auckland’s Heritage Hotel. It’s basically junk mail nirvana.
Crisis communications is one of the easiest areas to study and gain an appreciation for tangible social media ROI. And while we can never fully prepare for a natural disaster or acts of God, the advances in digital media can help accelerate the recovery. They can also help change the structure and procedures of previously traditional and parochial communications departments, as the State Government of Victoria in Australia discovered when it was subjected to some of the worst bushfires ever seen last year.
In a world-first for the global phenomenon that is TED, New Zealand’s own TEDx event, which is taking place on Sunday at Westlake Boys High School campus in Auckland, will be streamed live in partnership with TVNZ 7.
After a hugely successful inaugural conference in May that attracted more than 200 Kiwi marketers, Social Media Junction is returning for its second edition with six international speakers on 16-17 November at SkyCity in Auckland. And the theme this time around is ‘Achieving ROI in your Social Media Marketing Strategy.’
After we posted this story about the companies and organisations that were deemed to have the best reputations in the eyes of Kiwis, we had a few requests for details about the Corporate Reputation breakfast seminar. Originally, this event was aimed at the 20 companies featured in the study, so they could find out about their rankings and those of their competitors, but there was enough interest from outside this exclusive club to open it up further. So Core Communications and AMR Interactive have extended an invitation to anyone interested in hearing about the New Zealand study, the international index and global best practice for reputation management from AMR’s reputation expert Oliver Freedman.
The New Zealand Marketing Association’s RSVP & Nexus Awards is the only awards programme dedicated to celebrating marketing that demands a reply, stimulates a conversation or prompts some deeper brand involvement that leads to a measurable-response. And marketers, agencies, consultancies and suppliers who have been involved in the development of a project or campaign that demonstrates brilliance in response-driven marketing are asked to prepare their entries so they can be recognised as leading the way in New Zealand marketing.
With three times as many entries than the 2009 edition, the esteemed judges of the 2010 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards had a pretty tough job ahead of them deciding on the finalists. But after plenty of discussion, dissection and deliberation, the judging has come to an end and NZ Marketing magazine and the New Zealand Marketing Association (NZMA) can announce this year’s leading contenders.
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The high-quality animation makes this latest Red Bull cinema commercial really stand out. So much so, we’re declaring it this week’s TVC of the week.
Credits: The ad was placed in NZ by Lassoo; but the agency and film company are not known.
VW’s mashed-up superbowl ad.
Anti-superbowl advertising.
You got parodied, Samsung.
A unique–and elaborate—way to promote fire safety.
Mysterious flying people.
YouTube stats—animated.
Search New Zealand advertising on Facebook and this is what you get, this old chap should’ve gone to Specsavers, great pics of the Tough Guy challenge, search Google Images by drawing, and a great way to put sandwich thieves off the scent.
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