Advertising Awards
Communication Agencies Association NZ (CAANZ)
CAANZ is the industry association for advertising and communications agencies. Each year CAANZ runs award competitions, encouraging and celebrating New Zealand's best advertising in three categories:
CAANZ Media Awards 2009
-Best in Show Agency: Starcom NZ
-Best Integrated Media Campaign: Robert Harris- Every Break should be Inspirational - by Draft FCB
Best Smart Media Idea: Lynx Jackpot by Spark PHD
- CAANZ Media Awards 2008
- Best in Show Agency: NZ Army Recruitment
- Excellence Award: Chris Riley
-Best Use of Radio: Speight's Great Beer
- CAANZ Effie Awards 2007
- Best in Show Agency: Ogilvy, Client: RaboPlus, Entry Title: A Billion Dollar Affair
- Agency Effectiveness Award Winner: Saatchi and Saatchi NZ
- Advertiser of the Year Winner: Westpac New Zealand Ltd, Agency: Saatchi and Saatchi NZ
- CAANZ Media Awards 2007
- Media Best in Show - Bloody Legends
- Media Brand of Year - Fairfax Media-Network
- Excellence Award - Mark Jennings
- Best Smart Media Idea - Horses
- CAANZ Media Awards 2006 Chairman' Best in Show
- CAANZ Media Awards 2006 Best in Show - Let's Play Poker by Sky City
- Grande Axis Electronic - Undies by Tip-Top
- Grande AXIS Print - Be the Ball by Adidas
- Grande AXIS Direct - Come Together by Durex
- Grande AXIS "X Award" Interactive - Telecom Rubbish Film Festival by Telecom
CAANZ Media Awards Recognising Excellence in Media Strategy
- - CAANZ Media Awards 2005 Best in Show: Fight Hair Crime by MediaCom (New Zealand) Limited
- CAANZ AXIS Awards Recognising Creativity
- CAANZ AXIS Awards 2005 Best in Show: Worst Boyfriend by DDB - CAANZ EFFIE Awards Recognising Results
- CAANZ EFFIE Awards 2005 Best in Show: Your Red Dot Sale Just Got Bigger by Colenso.99
Fairfax Admedia Agency of the Year Awards.
Unlike most other New Zealand and international awards,
the focus of the Agency of the Year Awards is on the business of business.
Established in 2000 by AdMedia magazine, these awards take a broad view of
excellence in the advertising industry.
Winners for 2009:
Magazine Single – Vespa: ‘Police Gap’
Magazine Campaign – NZ Army: ‘Toy Soldiers’
Newspaper Single – TVNZ: ‘American Psycho – Flag’
Outdoor Billboard Advertising Single – TVNZ: ‘Kill Bill Blood Splatter’
Flat Direct Mail – TVNZ: ‘Around the World in 80 Days’
2009 Agency of the Year: Saatchi & Saatchi
Winners for 2007:
- Agency of the Year: Y&R Group
- Media Agency of the Year: FCB Media
- Indie Agency of the Year: Sugar
- Wildcard: Simon Shattky & Steve Adams
Winners for 2006:
- Agency of the year Saatchi & Saatchi
- Compact Agency of the year: Tequila
- Agency CEO of the year Andrew Stone of Saatchi & Saatchi
- Rising Agency of the Year: Colenso
- Media Agency of the Year: Starcom
Newspaper Advertising Bureau (NAB)
NAB is the sales and marketing arm of the daily newspaper industry in New Zealand representing 25 daily newspapers. It aims to promote newspapers as the advertising medium and help advertisers plan and implement their newspaper campaigns.