Yahoo New Zealand has turned a blind eye on NZ shops, and appointed Sydney-based Red Agency to manage its communication and public relations activities (previously managed by Acumen Republic in NZ). The appointment is an extension of the existing, four-year partnership between Red Agency and Yahoo7 in Australia.

Whybin\TBWA and the arts & music fraternity have put their creative weight behind an art-chair auction for Bowel Cancer New Zealand.

The folks at iconic Kiwi production house Flying Fish – the people behind an astonishing stream of TVCs that mirror the path of NZ history over the past 30 years – are in celebration mode.

Clemenger BBDO Wellington has won the New Zealand Defence Force creative account from Saatchi & Saatchi.

Spikes Asia has appointed Auckland adman James Hurman of Previously Unavailable as Creative Effectiveness Jury president. This is the second Spikes jury role for Hurman (but his first as a president). The last time was in 2014, when he served on the Innovation jury.

M+AD – with help from readers – has tracked down the owner of Lucky Lucky Dumplings pop-up restaurant in K Rd, and the ad-agency connection is real … if a little tenuous.

MediaWorks has today announced it has concluded negotiations with Rachel Glucina for the purchase of her interest in the joint venture partnership of the Scout brand.

Over 1000 Dentsu Aegis Network Australia & NZ staff will today come together to support causes and charities within their local communities.

Just in from CAANZ: “Stop in the name of love and cast your mind back to a time before lipsync was a Fallon skit, before video cameras were digital, and before you were too self-aware to realise that setting up your parents’ camcorder in the lounge and dancing around to the Spice Girls would be something you’d never ever ever ever live down.”