Dentsu Aegis Network New Zealand has signed the lease as the sole corporate tenant of 68 Sale Street in Victoria Quarter – the former Screentime building, which has been transformed by building owner Tim Wilson with a base build design from Stack.

Campaign Asia-Pacific has issued its entry call for its 2015 Agency of the Year Awards – with a separate division for NZ and Australian work.

Google has unveiled a new organisational restructure, creating a new company Alphabet, of which Google will be a subsidiary.

The Magazine Publishers Association has announced the finalists for next month’s Magazine Awards. Bauer tops the list with 46, followed by Tangible Media with 25, Fairfax with 19 and Kowhai Media with 10.

In a new campaign created by RAPP this week, The Auckland City Mission is cyber-squatting on the .nz home pages of dozens of New Zealand organisations – including M+AD – in an effort to raise awareness around homelessness in the city.

NZME has created a new position to oversee its people and culture from a group perspective, and appointed Michelle Hamilton to the role, as group director – culture and performance.

Auckland’s Media Design School has launched a series of weekend workshops that are designed to address the increasing demand for short courses in coding, game development, user experience, social media community management and digital design in New Zealand.