“We finished last year with 100% of our teams from 2016 in the creative departments of agencies, and we’re fresh back at work today with the good news that two of those teams scored silver and bronze in the International Young Glory competition,” reports MDS AdSchool CD Kate Humphries.

US title Advertising Age has paid a high compliment to Colenso BBDO, naming the Auckland agency as runner-up in its International Agency of the Year competition.

Assignment Group/OMD client Kiwibank has signed on with TVNZ as commercial partner for the new primetime Nigel Latta Mind Over Money with Nigel Latta.

Rachel King & Scott Stratford are the Boston-based founding partners of EditMate; the company was founded in Auckland and is headed by Jane Ormsby. King wrote this piece exclusively for M+AD readers: 

Film Construction rising stars Harriett Maire & Ferris Bradley have won a special category award at the CineSpace US competition for Film Best Depicting Benefits to Humanity from the International Space Station.

Colenso/Proximity and justONE head the list of agency finalists in the run-up to the NZDM Awards at the Langham Auckland on Thursday 23 February.

CAANZ has unveiled its two international judges for this year’s Axis Awards. Chuck Rachford (from the US) and Australian Nancy Hartley will work alongside the team of six NZ based jury presidents in the lead-up to show night at the Viaduct Events Centre on Thursday 16 March.

Sydney-based Bega Cheese has acquired Mondelez International’s Australia & New Zealand grocery and cheese business, regaining Australian ownership of Vegemite after 90 years.