Tourism Tasmania’s ‘Feed your curious’ campaign is the first entry in the running for a share of the $2 million worth of out-of-home media in the 2018 national oOh! Unmissable Awards.

The awards have been launched this week and will recognise the best integrated campaigns across the oOh! network of out-of-home assets.

Three $500,000 media packages are up for grabs to national campaigns that use two or more oOh! environments with native content. There are also three $175,000 single market campaigns to be awarded which combine an oOh! environment with native content.

oOh!’s group revenue director, Phil Eastwood, said in addition to the $2 million worth of media, the judging panel, which will be chaired by the former chairman of Publicis Communications ANZ, Andrew Baxter, will award the creative lead of the best campaign of all the winners with an all-expenses paid educational trip for two to the SXSW Conference and festivals in Austin, Texas.

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KPMG Australia has appointed former Publicis Communications Chairman and Publicis Australia CEO, Andrew Baxter, as Senior Adviser to the firm’s entrepreneurial Customer, Brand and Marketing Advisory (CBMA) business.

The expansion of the big four ­accounting firms into marketing continues, with former Publicis Australia boss Andrew Baxter joining KPMG as a senior adviser.

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