Sydney, Today – Following a successful year beta-testing the bespoke music platform in Australia, Admusic V2.0 will launch on both sides of the Tasman this week under the name MusicBrief.

Sydney-based Kiwi Andrew Holmes, who’s now lead editor at creative services company Heckler (his last job was the new Tiger Beer commercial) has picked up a Silver Lotus Award at Adfest 2018.

Auckland music production house Smoke is stepping out for another spin with Mediaworks, creating all the dance tracks for the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars.

The Comms Council reckons that tickets are selling fast for the upcoming 5th annual Beacons Awards in May. “So pick up yours today,” says ceo Paul Head.

Sydney PR exponent/crisis comms expert Patrick Southam has written a scathing story for Aussie ad-sheet Mumbrella about the professional PR policies at Cricket Australia, in the wake of the national team’s cheating sensation – caught in full frontal by national commercial television.

Colenso BBDO has redesigned the agency to focus on creative collaboration, clients’ customers and new ways of working – via an in-depth press release that explains why & how the agency has evolved its agency model.

Auckland PR agency Lily & Louis reports that it’s seeing “a cracking start” to the year with a stable of new clients added to its portfolio.

One of the world’ big creative shows – New York’s Clio Awards – has named its jury chairs for 2018, and set its dates for 2018.

With eight agencies in the 2018 Gunn Media 100 agency ranking, released overnight, MediaCom is the top-ranked network in the world. PHD is in second place. It also had eight agencies in the top 50, three of them in the top 10.