The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) has today opened voting for the People’s Choice category of the AIMIA Awards. This is the first year of the award, with voting open to all AIMIA members, who will each receive a single vote. The most popular entry from the total pool of 122 finalist entries will be winner. Members can vote for their favourite entry by visiting http://www.aimia.com.au/awards/peoples-choice . Voting will close at 5pm AEDT on Tuesday, 23 February.
Full-service agency Lavender has appointed Claire Falloon as senior copywriter. Falloon, who has previously worked at Lavender, re-joins the team from DDB Rapp Sydney, where she worked on brands including Australian Red Cross, Austar and Audi. She will join the agency’s creative team including ECD Luke Chess, CD direct Tan Gout Nee and CD brand design Brian Eagle.
Independent digital marketing agency, The DM Group, has appointed Craig Hockley as digital planning director of clickDM, the group’s digital marketing arm. His appointment sees Ian Ross, the company’s head of digital, move into the role of digital technical director and follows the hire of ex-GPY&R studio head, Rob Walker, as general manager of the group’s corporate artwork service, artworkDM. Hockley has previously for a number of multinational and specialist agencies including Grey, The One Centre and MercerBell and on clients as diverse as Holden, TAC, WorkSafe, OPSM and Huggies.
BCC AdSystems has completed the rollout of its latest version of BCC media desktop software, which facilitates the transition to time-shifted ratings viewing data for metropolitan, national and regional television viewing. According to Rob Landsberry, MD of BCC AdSystems, the version 9.2.5 of BCC media desktop software incorporates the modifications required for reporting on this new data set. He said all its Australian clients had upgraded to this version.
