Kiwi advertising veteran Mike O’Sullivan passed away on Monday (4 July), bringing an end to his fight against cancer. He is survived by his wife Melanie, four children and two grandchildren.

APN Outdoor has released the voting numbers for the charities competing in its 2016 creative competition, Pixel361° – won in impressive style by Rainger & Rolfe client the Child Cancer Foundation.

Nielsen NZ has responded to news that Nielsen US has updated its total audience metric to better reflect changes in TV viewing habits.

PHD has appointed Forsyth Thompson to the newly created role of Head of Performance. Forsyth, who joins the agency on 1 August, will take charge of leading integration and performance across both Search and Programmatic.

By Sophie Radford, Sales Director NZ, Exponential: The announcement that NZME and Fairfax NZ are hoping to merge in order to build a media company to fight off the impact of Google and Facebook, threw the issue of scale back into the spotlight.

Colenso BBDO’s remarkable creative record over the past year – led only partly by the mighty DB Export Brewtroleum – has propelled the Auckland shop to the Creative Agency of the Year prize at the Mumbrella Awards in Sydney.