Colenso BBDO has won the Grand Axis at this year’s Axis awards. FCB NZ has won Agency of the Year. Scoundrel has won Production Company of the Year.
30 Gold Axis Awards, 2 Grand Prix, 7 Special Awards and the Grand Axis were awarded this year.
Colenso BBDO won the Grand Axis for Kupu, the app created in partnership with Spark for Te Wiki o te reo Māori 2018. Kupu also won five Gold Axis Awards – in Direct Digital, Experience Design, Mobile, Product Design – Tech and User Experience, two Executive Gold Awards in For Good and Innovation Axis categories and Grand Prix in Mobile.
In addition, Colenso won two Gold Axis awards for Generation Voice in Digital and Interactive, also for Spark.
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Spark won The 2019 Client of the Year Award.
FCB New Zealand won 2 Golds for Oat the Goat with Assembly for Ministry of Education, plus a Gold for each of Swim Reaper for Water Safety New Zealand, Pre-Testie Bestie for Health Promotion Agency…
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…and Undercover Crossword for the Ministry of Social Development/Office for Seniors. It also went home with a generous haul of silvers and bronzes and won the new Brand Axis Award for its long-term brand work with Pak’nSave – Stickman for Foodstuffs NZ Ltd.
Clemenger BBDO won five Gold Axis Awards for its Look Right, Look Left radio campaign for KiwiRail and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council, including That time Jordie Barrett didn’t and That time Professor John Burrows didn’t.
DDB Group New Zealand won Gold in PR for A new New Zealand, for KiwiRail, two Golds in Film & Video for Armoured Truck for Lotto New Zealand and this year’s second Grand Prix, also for Armoured Truck, in TV or Cinema.
Ogilvy New Zealand won three Golds for Question A Cop for New Zealand Police, in Creative Use of Data in Direct, Social Video and Integrated.
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Scoundrel was Production Company of the Year and won two Golds for Armoured Truck, plus two more Golds for Department of Lost Nights for Health Promotion Agency, both in Art Direction and Direction.
FINCH won one Gold in Direction for Generation Voice.
Sweetshop won Gold in Direction for The Dance for Lion.
The 2019 Emerging Talent Award was won by Jake Blood & Josh Thompson from Saatchi & Saatchi. The Google Student Challenge was won by Clementina de Ruiter and Zach Hall from Media Design School, for Smiles Aren’t Meant to Last.
