With Cannes kicking off over the weekend, New Zealand agencies are set to fill their suitcases with Lions and already celebrating is Colenso BBDO, which has scored a Gold Lion in Cannes Health and Wellness category for its Fonterra ‘Milk Slams’ campaign.
42 Below and Colenso BBDO are tackling the not-so-crucial issue of cocktail-garnish-waste by making soap from discarded lemons.
A round of applause to Fly Buys, Men’s Health Trust, McDonald’s and Roadshow Films.
Fly Buys is sharing the love in a new campaign, by Colenso BBDO, created to remind Kiwis that giving is what it does best.
Last night in London, local agencies showed off their talent at the D&AD Awards to win 12 pencils, including five Graphite Pencils and seven Wood.
Colenso BBDO and Barnes, Catmur & Friends Dentsu had plenty to celebrate over the weekend after being included in APAC Effie Awards winners were announced. Both agencies received recognition on the international stage and ‘Brewtroleum’ stole the night by winning the coveted Grand Effie.
StopPress understands that the BMW/Mini creative pitch, ongoing since August last year, has reached its final stages and is being contested between DDB, True and Colenso BBDO.
As Levi Slavin and Dan Wright return from New York, Simon Vicars and Andre Sallowicz head off to London.
While New Zealanders kicked back to the cricket and flocked to Adele, the weekend saw those in adland braced for another round of awards as the Asian regional creative festival, AdFest, announced its winners. Local agencies Clemenger BBDO and Colenso BBDO are among those celebrating success.
When TVNZ launched Duke last year, it was championed as a way of reaching hard to get audiences and acting as an experiment lab for new forms of content. And its first birthday celebration is set to champion those strengths with a live primetime TV sports event that will see two friends battle it out for Fresh-Up.
Empty nest syndrome is not a matter to take lightly and Pedigree and Colenso BBDO are hoping to provide a solution, with an initiative to rehome the thousands of dogs from around New Zealand that have been rescued from abuse and neglect.
Anchor and Colenso BBDO have released the next series of videos in the ‘Go Strong’ campaign, this time turning to slam poetry to highlight the benefits of milk and the strength it gives us.
CAANZ has released the finalists for the upcoming Axis Awards, and it’s shaping up to be Colenso BBDO’s night as it makes the list 94 times, followed by FCB Advertising and DDB Group both with 43 entries and Ogilvy behind with 42.
With the finalists announced today, this year’s edition of the Direct Marketing Awards will again see the nation’s agencies slog it out on awards night for metal.
Clemenger Group chief executive Jim Moser this week confirmed the consolidation of the Auckland-based teams at Proximity and Touchcast under the Colenso BBDO brand. So what does this mean for the Wellington arm of Touchcast? And is there still room for digital specialists in an integrated world?
New Zealand agencies had a lot to celebrate in Singapore overnight as Colenso BBDO, OMD and DDB won gold in the agency categories at the Campaign Asia Pacific Agency of the Year Awards.
StopPress understands BNZ has ended its retainer agreement with Colenso BBDO. This does not impact the agency’s standing as the lead creative agency on the account, but other circling agencies are hoping it will eventually. PLUS: BNZ still on a hunt for a replacement for Craig Herbison.
The Apple vs Android debate has hit the banks, as BNZ rolls out Android Pay with Krunch and Colenso BBDO in the wake of ANZ’s Apple Pay.
Industry happenings at Colenso BBDO, Frucor and Datalicious.
Branching out of his work in the office, Colenso BBDO senior creative Freddie Coltart is channeling his inner artisan with his two brothers to bring the Swedish outdoor game Kubb to New Zealand. We chat to him about how Kubb Brothers came to be and how his agency experience has helped him build his own brand.
When creating a marketing campaign, ‘death’ and ‘pledge’ are typically words to avoid, unless you want your customers to think you are locking them into something sinister. But BNZ and Colenso BBDO have purposefully pulled these unused words out of the hat to create a new meaning for mortgages across a technical campaign.
Fresh-up, Colenso BBDO and OMD are calling on real mates with real rivalry to take each other on in a ‘Beat Your Mate, Smash Your Thirst’ campaign, set to be broadcast on TV through a partnership with TVNZ.
Former Colenso business director Sarah Williams has crossed the floor from agency to client side to take on the role of head of brand, communications and experience at Spark. PLUS: Spark releases two more micro moments.
September proved to be the month of storytelling, with many high quality adverts on our screens and Colmar Brunton finding the New Zealand public unable to pick a favourite out of New World’s ‘Little Garden’ and Bay Audiology’s ‘Hearing check’. In the end, the consumer research firm succumbed and gave both adverts September Ad Impact Awards.
New World has released the next installment of its ‘Happier New Zealand’ campaign, in which it ponders what the country would look like if it was happier in the hopes of improving its rank as eighth happiest nation in the world.
The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation and Colenso BBDO are marking October’s Breast Cancer Month with a lump that follows women around the internet until they get a mammogram.
2degrees has come out on top of Colmar Brunton’s August Ad Impact Award for its ‘Where does your data disappear to’ TVC, via Special Group and The Sweet Shop, which gets creative to explain mobile data to consumers.
