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“We are excited to be working with an exciting brand like PUMA in New Zealand,” says Ryf Quail, GM of ZenithOptimedia New Zealand. “To work with PUMA in an Olympic year is a fantastic opportunity for us. They are progressive company who have punched above their weight in New Zealand and will give us a chance to stretch our creative thinking.”

The appointment is immediate and ZO has already commenced work with PUMA.

ZO will collaborate with the incumbent Lassoo will continue in a public relations capacity.

The world’s fastest growing media agency network unveils global rebrand to reflect new positioning

ZenithOptimedia Group, one of the world's leading global media agency networks, today launches a new global strategic positioning, ‘Live ROI’. In addition the Group is unveiling a comprehensive global rebrand across all ZenithOptimedia Group companies including Zenith, Optimedia, Moxie, Newcast, Performics, Ninah, Sponsorship Intelligence and Scoop to reflect the new positioning.

Renowned as the ROI agency, ZenithOptimedia was the first media agency to apply a rigorous and objective approach to improving the effectiveness of marketing spend. Digital and online media have dramatically increased the ways consumers can interact and engage with brands and opened up thousands of new opportunities for the owners of those brands. In this increasingly complex and fragmented media landscape, measuring performance and return on investment are more important than ever before. ‘Live ROI’ delivers the same rigorous approach, but in real-time, and cements ZenithOptimedia’s commitment to delivering state of the art data analytics and breakthrough creativity to deliver innovative ROI solutions for their clients.

“We were the first media agency to put accountability at the core of everything we do, and our pioneering expertise in this area has driven our success and underpinned our growth” comments Steve King, Global Chief Executive Officer for ZenithOptimedia Group. He continues: “Consumers increasingly live their lives in a digital world in which traditional ROI techniques no longer deliver everything our clients need. Live ROI does. It takes ROI to the next level and ensures a real time approach that identifies how and where budgets can be invested to deliver the best returns. Over the past two years we have put Live ROI through the most demanding tests and it is the most comprehensive and future facing approach available to clients.”

The new positioning will be supported with a number of cutting edge, world-class tools, processes and development programmes including Touchpoints ROI Tracker, Socialtools, Adforecast.com, Open and Live Academy. Touchpoints ROI Tracker is the world’s largest research database of relative consumer influence across paid, owned and earned touchpoints and has a proven track record in delivering the greatest possible return on clients’ media investment. Socialtools is a new state of the art proprietary software tool that tracks the performance of brand pages in Facebook via live dashboards, showing trends in metrics such as number of fans, likes, comments, engagement rate, etc. for each brand page, as well as competitive comparisons across multiple brand pages.

Adforecast.com is the world’s first online database of historical and future global advertising spend using ZenithOptimedia’s renowned and respected global advertising expenditure forecasts. Open is ZenithOptimedia’s open source approach and philosophy for idea generation.  Live Academy is a robust, network-wide educational framework that has delivered over 12,000 hours of training across faculties including content, search and social to enable all employees to deliver the new proposition.

The new strategic positioning has been translated into a corporate identity rebrand that recently rolled out across all 250 offices worldwide, encompassing all ZenithOptimedia Group companies.

For continuity, the new branding for ZenithOptimedia retains the subtext ‘The ROI Agency’, the signature colour blue and a refreshed peak symbol, all of which were established in 2004 following the merger between Zenith Media and Optimedia, but includes a refresh of the agency’s wordmark and visual identity. Zenith and Optimedia will also use the same typeface as the ZenithOptimedia, the refreshed peak symbol and the same corporate colour palette, as well as ‘The ROI Agency’ subtext.  Zenith Media is renamed Zenith.

The logos of all other ZenithOptimedia Group companies, Newcast, Performics, Moxie, Ninah, Sponsorship Intelligence and Scoop, have been redesigned to create a clear brand relationship. All companies use the same typeface as ZenithOptimedia, distinguishing themselves through the use of additional colour and symbols. These additional colours combine with the ZenithOptimedia colours to make the corporate colour palette.

Ryf Quail, GM for ZenithOptimedia New Zealand comments: “As part of the repositioning we have taken this opportunity to reinvigorate our corporate brand both internally and externally. As the fastest growing media agency network, this new identity heralds our next stage of growth and demonstrates our commitment to our clients and staff that we will continue to be at the forefront of communications planning and buying.”

Finalists will be announced on Friday 30th - finger's crossed.

We ended up with 13 entries - from five clients (Panasonic, Reckiitt Benckiser, Lion and Auckland City Mission).

Preliminary judging to get to finalist stage is on Mon 19 and Tue 20 March, with finalists announced at the end of March.

We got our entries in well before the 4pm deadline too!

The report covers the following 10 mega-trends:

1. The Always On Web
2. Web of Things
3. Big Data
4. Next Gen Search
5. Mobile Sharing
6. Mobile Social Activism
7. Impulse Commerce
8. Brands As Partners
9. The New Living Room
10. Personal Data Security

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The boys seem stoked!

Sophie Greer takes the Day Eight honours with a crisp white cotton dress (and cute pose).  Mana Tai and Yit Wong continue with their strong contributions.  I love how Yit has a red watch to bring out the red hearts on her shirt.

Seeing all the colour around the office made for a very happy vibe...it is true that colour has a profound effect on the human pysche.

It was a hotly contested top three...good efforts shown by Jonathan Adams (who is building an impressive portfolio of daily poses) in an orange shirt with devore detail and Sophie Greer stepping out in a great lace dress (and introducing a new posing venue).  Sophie also got some public recognition when Gill Stewart from TRB complimented her outfit.

However, the winner on the day was Beena Dhanji...good pink and black combo...the shoes a great touch!  She also got public recognition earlier in the day with a wolf whistle from a building site crew.

We actually had four in the top three - Sophie Greer (in ravishing red) and Emily Swan (in a classic dark jeans/cream boho top combo) but also a new entrant, Rosie Radford...wearing luscious black wool (she's a labradoodle afterall!)

Rosie was quite a pushy diva as she muscled her way into Charlotte Moss's photo too.Watch out for tomorrow's post - second theme day - "Colour Me Happy".