The Spikes Asia has chosen five Aussies among its 13 jury presidents from across the region for its 2018 creative awards in Singapore in September – but the organisers have turned a blind eye to potential Kiwi jurors.

Y&R New Zealand executive creative director Kim Pick has been selected for ‘super-jury’ duty at Australia’s 2018 AWARD School.

Campaign Asia-Pacific has issued its entry call for its 25th Agency of the Year Awards – an event which features a dedicated NZ/Australia division (along with China, Japan & Korea, Southeast Asia, South Asia divisions).

M+AD’s been burning the midnight oil on the Ad Stars website –locating all 53 separate NZ pieces of work from 90 entrants in the 2018 shortlist. The winners will be announced in South Korea next month.

To continue to thrive in 2018 New Zealand advertisers and marketers need to heavily invest in training, not only for their staff, but clients as well – particularly around programmatic. 

The Comms Council has issued an Inclusiveness & Diversity Policy for use in member agencies, in response to last year’s survey that confirmed a need for greater diversity in the industry, and that there is a clear gap when it comes to formal policies and programmes within agencies.

MDS AdSchool Auckland students have scored eight out of 17 of the shortlist at AdStars in South Korea (see main story, above) – an astonishing achievement that saw the Kiwis placed well ahead of global glamour shops the New York School of Visual Arts and the Miami AdSchool.

The global Ad Stars organisation has just unveiled 90 finalists from New Zealand to contest this year’s festival in Busan, South Korea, next month.