Yahoo New Zealand reveals its 2014 Digital Stars

Yahoo New Zealand has today announced the winners of the 2014 Yahoo Digital Stars programme. The programme, which is being run for the second time in New Zealand, recognises the best up-and-coming  talent in the media agency arena. This year, New Zealand’s Digital Stars have been judged alongside their Australian counterparts for the first time. Due to the very high quality of young professionals, nine winners were selected across Australia and New Zealand, including two Kiwi stars.

Says Louis Niven, general manager of sales at Yahoo New Zealand: “Yahoo Digital Stars is a fantastic opportunity for local talent to be judged alongside our trans-Tasman counterparts. The awards have emerged as an important recognition programme for young digital media planners and buyers and this year the number and quality of entries Yahoo received has been outstanding. The overall quality demonstrates what strong media talent we have in New Zealand and certainly made our job hard in determining the winners.”

The 2014 Yahoo Digital Stars winners are:

• Isaac O’Leary from NSW at PHD

• Mark Ryan from NSW at Maxus

• Courtney Grant from NSW at MediaCom

• Cameron Law from QLD at Ikon Communications

• Sarah Forte from VIC at Mindshare

• Rory Simmance from VIC at Mitchells

• Paula Greten from WA at Carat

• Meei Chai from New Zealand at Ikon

• Will Innes from New Zealand at OMD Wellington

The Yahoo New Zealand Digital stars will be rewarded with access to the full two days of the Mumbrella360 conference in June with the prize including a trip to Sydney, a networking dinner with senior Yahoo7 and Yahoo New Zealand staff and a photo shoot for professional headshots.

For further information about the Yahoo Digital Stars programme, click here.