The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has launched the fifth Cannes Chimera Competition, an initiative to engage the global creative industry in building public awareness and support for solutions to critical global development problems.

NZME, currently amid the development of an intensive digital strategy, has made another key move – adding the nzherald.co.nz digital editor role to Marcus Forbes’ duties (he’s currently group digital content general manager).

Clear your calendar, says CAANZ, for its upcoming First Five Rungs Speaker Series: Window Shopping – a “fantastic” opportunity to come face to face with four New Zealand fashion entrepreneurs at the first Speaker Series for 2015.

Colenso BBDO has collected two Webby Awards in New York – the only NZ agency to convert a finalist spot into Gold.

The spread of digital video increasingly requires ads to be shot vertically in order to fit various apps – or so many claim (other say just turn your cellphone on its side).

The Receiver for Mediaweb – the company set up in 2011 by Toni Myers & John Clark to take over assets of 3media Group after it failed in 2010 – has referred the case to the Serious Fraud Office.

FCB Auckland creative Matt Williams has been named in the One to Watch section of The One Show in New York.

After an “exhaustive” competitive pitch that began late last year, Auckland International Airport has consolidated its multiple agency partnerships into one – and appointed Whybin\TBWA as its lead advertising and brand partner.