Auckland-based digital media exponent Exponential – an outpost of the global Exponential empire – is kicking off the party season tomorrow evening (Thursday) at Roxy Bar & Lounge in the CBD, with their APAC team flying in to join local colleagues, clients and media friends and partners for an opportunity to Engage in the Conversation with Exponential.

“The AUT Adschool end-of-year was one of the best we’ve had,” says CD Paul White. Ogilvy, FCB, DDB, ColensoBBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi, String Theory, RAPP, Barnes Catmur, Whybin\TBWA, True, Young & Shand, Union Digital, Hunch, Film Construction, The Web Company, Tiny Axe all came to see.

“Thanks to Marsden Inch for putting a generous amount behind the bar for our end-of-year show last week and a very warm hug to everyone who came along to the show,” says MDS AdSchool CD Kate Humphries.

We didn’t exactly cover ourselves with glory in our recent coverage of Singapore’s Campaign Asia Agency of the Year Awards shortlist.

TV3 Grand Designs shows in New Zealand are finished for the time being – but over the months to come, images from the TV show will appear in the newly launched Grand Designs Magazine, the official mag of the show – out of Australia-based Universal Publishing.

Absent from our Friday unveiling of the Campaign Asia-Pacific Australia/New Zealand Agency of the Year Awards was Transtasman PR shop Eleven (a division of Whybin\TBWA).