Just one week left to make the early deadline for Effie 2018 entries. If it’s looking like you’re not going to make it, but you still want to be blessed with the energy of an Effie, you can apply for the late entry deadline.

AUCKLAND, Today: With the recent purchase of Cerebos Greggs by Kraft Heinz, the company has consolidated its creative and media agencies.

DHL Express, the world’s leading international express services provider, has upgraded to a larger freight plane – a Boeing 767-300 – for the Transtasman trade lane (AKL-SYD-AKL).

Auckland: Comms Council Industry support group First Five Rungs has unveiled a new event – labelled First Five Dates – for millennials in communications and advertising.

Raydar & 99 have forged a partnership to launch Church Road Journeys of Discovery on TVNZ for Pernod Ricard. The series marks the first work from Raydar & 99 since winning the Pernod Ricard brand work from Ogilvy late last year.

AUCKLAND, Today: NZME has announced that Greg Cassidy has taken up the role of head of NZME’s online/print automotive platform Driven.

New Zealand agencies have just 10 days to enter the 2018 Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity, due to be held in Singapore from Wednesday 26 September to Friday 28 September.

Winter proving to be the winning season for MBM. Off the back of a record year in 2017, the Auckland/Wellington indie media agency MBM reports that it is enjoying a cracking 2018 with three great new business wins coming in over the last couple of months.