Two Auckland ad agencies – Colenso BBDO and Special Group – were among the stars at the Best Design Awards, unveiled on Friday night.

Rumours are flying across the Tasman that Dave King, the ECD of Innocean Sydney will leave the agency at the end of the month. At press time, his destination was unknown.

Kiwi creatives Ben Polkinghorne and Scott Kelly, now at Wieden + Kennedy London, have joined an ambitious campaign to convince Americans of the need to vote at their upcoming election.

AWARD School Australasia has named Gigi Lee its top student at New Zealand’s 2016 AWARD School graduation ceremony, in Auckland last week. Ryan Hobbs was #2, and Lucy Galbraith finished the course at #3.

Bob Dylan has won his ultimate accolade – the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. The announcement came from the Swedish Academy at mid-morning NZ time today.

Auckland-based digital advertising sales company Ad2one has unveiled a partnership with National Geographic to manage ad sales for nationalgeographic.com and nationalgeographic.com.au’s New Zealand audience.

Auckland & New York-based creative & technology company Rush Digital has taken out the top prize for their category at Visa’s Everywhere Initiative in Sydney, which challenges New Zealand and Australian start-ups to bring new ideas to payments.

Victoria Ransom who runs media marketing software company Wildfire Interactive was last night named winner of the Business category at the NEXT Woman of the Year Awards held in Auckland (in association with online jewellery store Pandora).