Creative retail agency.99 and direct experts justONE are encouraging marketers to rethink what’s possible in the world of DM, via a new campaign for the 2015 NZ Direct Marketing Awards – which has just issued its 2015 call for entries.

M+AD has accepted an invitation to join The Campaign Asia Agency of the Year Awards family of sponsors – coinciding with its entry call for NZ and Australian agencies.

The Paris-based Epica Awards – the global creative awards judged by the world’s advertising trade press – has announced its entry call and launched its 2015 season with new categories.

Facebook’s Instagram community has grown to more than 400 million strong worldwide, according to a release supplied to M+AD from an unnamed Instagram/Facebook spokesperson.

APN Outdoor reports a strong response to its Pixel3610 initiative, setting up a strong finals event tomorrow evening (Thursday 24 September) at Seafarers from 6-10pm.

The fur has been flying around the M+AD and NBR coverage of NZME’s 24/7 integrated newsroom. But one thing has become clear – NBR reporter Nick Grant did not take his information from Rachel Glucina’s Scout gossip site.

The NZ Marketing Association has issued its entry call for the 2015 NZDM Awards (including Nexus and RSVP).

An editing glitch in yesterday’s M+AD mailout story about a new web portal for NZ actors had the incorrect information but took readers to the right page. The version on the M+AD web page was, however, correct. Here’s that story again …

Westpac customers will be able to take up offers from local businesses as the bank rolls out New Zealand’s first ATM coupon rewards platform – Rewarded.