DDB’s Steinlager Pure Deep Dive campaign has been listed – alongside Coca-Cola, Dell, HBO, KFC and MasterCard – for the 2016 Warc Prize for Social Strategy (“highlighting the best examples of social ideas that drive business results”). Warc is a global comms site, based in the UK.

The annual Semi Permanent creative & design thinking platform returns to Auckland on Friday & Saturday 12-13 August with speakers including Assignment Group ceo Peter Biggs, Designworks chairman Sven Baker, plus a big cast from NZ, the UK, US, Germany, and Australia.

Entries for the 2016 Cannes Lions have closed, with a record 43,101 (+7%) submissions received. Overall there’s been growth in 18 of the 24 Lions.

Just one day left to register for the CAANZ/Simpson Grierson morning seminar When Social Media Goes Bad – Part 2, led by lawyer Tracey Walker, who returns from last year’s successful event.

NZME’s Radio Sport has secured the exclusive radio broadcasting rights for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The coverage will be led by Radio Sports leading commentary team Malcolm Jordan, Nigel Yalden, Daniel McHardy and Brian Ashby who will call the action of Rio 2016 as it plays out. This will be the fifth Olympic Games that Radio Sport has broadcast since its inception in 1998. 

M+AD has learned – via an avalanche of tip-off emails from readers – that Dentsu Aegis network paid NZ2.5 million for its majority stake in former Auckland indie agency Barnes Catmur & Friends (now Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu).