Beat Freemans Bay client Eat My Lunch – an Effie 2015 finalist – won the Communication gold at the 2015 NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards, held Tuesday at Shed 10 on the waterfront.

All the Epica 2015 results are now in, and they confirm our earlier report that NZ entries were making little impact at the Europe-based global awards show, judged by votes from global marketing journalists, including M+AD ed David Gapes.

M+AD goes into holiday mode in just three weeks. We’re taking a break from Wednesday 16 December (our last email issue for the year) and will return on Monday 11 January.

Ponsonby creative digital shop Method Studios is bringing back its Secret Santa Service which assists agencies and clients distribute their Christmas gifts (oops, sorry Dame Susan … Happy Holidays gifts).

NZME is reporting a strong year in video content growth, launching more than 12,000 videos in 2015 which by the end of the year will have been viewed over 42 million times. Off the back of this increase NZME has invested in facilities and capabilities to generate custom content for clients across all platforms.

Auckland-based digital media exponent Exponential – an outpost of the global Exponential empire – is kicking off the party season tomorrow evening (Thursday) at Roxy Bar & Lounge in the CBD, with their APAC team flying in to join local colleagues, clients and media friends and partners for an opportunity to Engage in the Conversation with Exponential.

“The AUT Adschool end-of-year was one of the best we’ve had,” says CD Paul White. Ogilvy, FCB, DDB, ColensoBBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi, String Theory, RAPP, Barnes Catmur, Whybin\TBWA, True, Young & Shand, Union Digital, Hunch, Film Construction, The Web Company, Tiny Axe all came to see.

“Thanks to Marsden Inch for putting a generous amount behind the bar for our end-of-year show last week and a very warm hug to everyone who came along to the show,” says MDS AdSchool CD Kate Humphries.

We didn’t exactly cover ourselves with glory in our recent coverage of Singapore’s Campaign Asia Agency of the Year Awards shortlist.

TV3 Grand Designs shows in New Zealand are finished for the time being – but over the months to come, images from the TV show will appear in the newly launched Grand Designs Magazine, the official mag of the show – out of Australia-based Universal Publishing.