Colenso ECD Wayne Pick and Colenso/Proximity CD Kim Pick appear on the same stage at a Marketing Association event next month – the pair will discuss “connecting the dots and picking the trends from bleeding edge to leading edge and mainstream in 2016”.

After a period of sharing the love around several Auckland shops, Bell Tea (now with new management) has appointed ZenithOptimedia as its fulltime media agency.

“The Christian religion was basically founded over a meal with a few wines,” says Auckland ad legend Mike Hutcheson (now at the Image Centre). “We founded HKM Advertising over a lunch – the deal was closed at Sails. We started at 12.30, and at 7.30 we were still going. We wrote the original agreement on the back of a napkin.”

The One Club has introduced the Penta Pencil to this year’s One Show Special Awards line-up.

TVNZ has announced plans to launch a male-skewing entertainment channel for New Zealand viewers in coming months. The new channel will be live streamed online and broadcast free to air.

For the next seven days, Quentin Tarantino devotees can immerse themselves in his eighth and latest film at a Ponsonby pub, via an activation engineered by Auckland media agency OMD with their activation partner Fuse.

APN Outdoor has announced the return of its popular Friends in High Places Summer Party. The 2016 event will held on Thursday 11 February at premier summer venue Mantells on the Water at Westhaven Marina

Leading NZ cross-platform entertainment brand The Edge has just hit refresh with its biggest rebrand in 20 years.