Five brands – Amazon, Lego, PayPal, MINI, Moët & Chandon and Lenovo – have entered Interbrand’s 16th annual Best Global Brands top 100 for the first time.

Republik Auckland’s award-winning Fuji Xerox Haus of Versant campaign has added a Gold ECHO to its growing haul. The campaign was recognised as one of the top Business-to-Business campaigns globally, and was one of three campaigns shortlisted for the Diamond ECHO for International Best in Show.

Auckland-based global production company The Sweet Shop has been named a Standout in the 2015 Creativity & Advertising Age Production Company A-List, which features “the ad industry’s best storytellers”.

Yesterday’s top 10 radio station websites story contained serious flaws. So we need to run a corrected version today. Read on: NZME & MediaWorks effectively shared the honours in Nielsen’s latest measurement of radio station website traffic – with NZME taking four of the top 10 spots and MediaWorks five. (No 1 is Radio NZ National).

MDS AdSchool students have dominated the News Works NZ Student Newspaper Campaign of the Year, taking out the winner and runner-up place and all three topical places.

Veteran adman – perhaps the most admired one of his generation – David (Dave/Devo/Waldo) Walden died in Auckland on Saturday, aged 66 after a short (but vigorous) fight against an aggressive form of cancer.

Nationally, MediaWorks’ The Edge is the most listened-to network (in All People/cumes), closely followed by NZME’s NewstalkZB.

NZME & MediaWorks share the glory in radio station website traffic – NZME taking 4 of the top 10 spots and MediaWorks 5 (No 1 is Radio NZ National).