Some readers are questioning the quality of the information contained in the recent M+AD and NBR reports on an alleged cull of top NZME writers as the company moves towards its new 24/7 integrated newsroom model.

NZME Events in partnership with Deloitte has announced details of the upcoming Deloitte Top 200, the big annual show NZME picked up when Mediaweb went under last year. This year’s show will now be held on Thursday 26 November at Vector Arena.

Five teams of the 30-strong shortlist for the 15th Crowbar Students Awards in Singapore have been taken by MDS AdSchool students.

Last week’s M+AD story about NZME’s “world class integrated newsroom” (supplied by NZME) had all the happy-clappy news – but skimped on some important detail, such as the likelihood of redundancy for a number of the best NZ Herald writers.

Whittaker’s is once again New Zealand’s most loved brand, according to the latest Colmar Brunton survey – and while the All Blacks have jumped 7% to be the country’s second most loved brand for 2015, Whittaker’s comfortably holds on to the top spot for the fourth year in a row.

ColensoBBDO’s Pegasus & the Job Numbers has taken out the championship title for the one event on the advertising calendar that has nothing to do with advertising – Botab 2015.