New Zealand Rugby League has teamed with ACC and BKA-Digital Outfitters to launch a new-look website that promotes the “Fundamentals programme for safe and rewarding participation in our game”.

Tonight DDB ceo Justin Mowday will sleep out on the mean streets of Auckland to help raise money for those who are homeless and sleep out every night.

NZ’s best and worst documents and web pages are about to get the treatment from Consumer NZ, which is sponsoring these two categories at the annual Plain English Awards.

SparkPHD’s Kim Gribble has won the second week of APN Outdoor’s Boards competition, a four-week long campaign programme to promote their premium network of large format, roadside billboards. Pete McRae from IKON and Rachel Stewart from OMD Auckland also picked up prizes.

Global digital services marketplace Fiverr and Getty Images have unveiled a partnership that aims to put premium creative services in the hands of small and medium businesses (SMBs), empowering them to produce creative once only thought possible for large enterprises. “For the 460,000 NZ small businesses competing against the marketing budgets of larger, better funded rivals, this partnership spells disruption […]

Yahoo New Zealand has unveiled its Native Ad in-feed advertising platform, following a successful beta phase, with more than 70 New Zealand brands already on board.

Auckland creative digital agency Young & Shand has forged a campaign – with a focus on worker wellbeing – to promote this year’s big Auckland design event, Semi-Permanent, now under way in Auckland at the Victory Convention Centre in Freemans Bay.

The London International Awards has extended its entry deadline to Wednesday 15 July 15.

CBD-based content creation company Frontside has netted the full marketing account for the SKYCITY Breakers, and launched a new service, FRONTSIDE InHouse.

Fairfax Media is rolling out a nationwide redesign of its local papers. All 66 of Fairfax’s community newspapers will undergo a facelift of content, layout and design over the next four weeks – with the new-look Manawatu Tribune first off the press today.