Getty Images has unveiled its new global selection of highest-quality imagery, Getty Images Prestige, in Auckland today.

UK-based global researcher Fiona Blades visits Auckland next week to make presentations to agencies and research companies.

Barnes, Catmur & Friends have won August’s Newspaper Ad of the Month with their Boundary Road Brewery Beer Census ad.

Colenso BBDO and Proximity have further boosted their planning capabilities with the arrival of David McCallen who started this week as Planning Director (Engagement).

After a competitive creative pitch against four UK companies, Arch Hill-based boutique creative shop Brandspank has won the contract to create the opening title sequence for host broadcaster ITV of the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England.

In what is said to be a world first, Ogilvy & Mather placed an advertising message inside a music track – a stroke of genius that has won the agency the July ORCA.

APN News & Media has told the Australian Securities Exchange it is seriously considering spinning off its New Zealand media assets, with an IPO one potential option.

Whybin\TBWA Sydney ECDs Dave Bowman & Matty Burton have signed with Special Group Australia as Founding Creative Partners in the recently announced Sydney start-up.

The Hypermedia Group is building a network of integrated POS video screens in over 200 dairies throughout NZ.