Adman/broadcaster/musician/producer Dale Wrightson died aged 70 in Auckland on Tuesday after a two-year battle with illness.

The London-based D&AD organisation has confessed to stealing D&AD Pencils from agencies around the world in a stunt that D&AD has now revealed was blatant self-promotion.

The New Zealand Advertising Producers Group is hosting an information evening (in cooperation with CAANZ, ANZA, Techo’s Guild, Screensafe and Film Auckland) to update the sector with safety compliance.

Colenso BBDO’s Nick Worthington is the 5th most awarded chief creative officer in the world – up from 7th last year – according to the 2015 Big Won agency rankings, produced for The Directory magazine in the UK.

Tickets have gone on sale for the 2015 NZDM Awards – to be held at The Langham on Thursday 25 February (don’t be confused by the dates – the winners to be announced in 2016 are being honoured for their work during all of 2015).

Saatchi & Saatchi has appointed general manager Paul Wilson to the managing director role left vacant yesterday when Nicky Bell announced her intention to leave the agency in March after six years in the top job.

Facebook’s Audience Network now includes support for mobile web, enabling 2.5 million Facebook advertisers to reach more of their target audience on mobile devices.

CAANZ advises that the hard copy deadline for Axis 2016 is just two days away – at 4pm Friday 29 January.