ANZ Bank head of corporate marketing & sponsorship Sue McGregor, with Sporstbet Australia head of communications Ben Hawes will address adland – and showcase their best work – at the next instalment of the CAANZ PREScom Champion Speaker Series. Sportsbet is Australia’s biggest corporate bookmaker.

AUT has ended its long partnership with Consortium, and will now work with a number of agencies on a project basis.

Colenso BBDO/Proximity was the best-performed NZ agency at The One Show Awards, held Friday night (NZ time) in New York City. DDB (Bronze and two Merits), Y&R (Merit), O&M (Merit)  and Special Group (Merit) also snatched a small share of the limelight.

After 25 years at the helm of one of New Zealand’s most respected and awarded agencies, Philip Andrew (Duster) has finally bid farewell at Clemenger BBDO.

The reform of advertising regulation is “perhaps the only substantive issue that Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama have ever agreed upon!” says the Foundation for Advertising Research director Glenn Wiggs, releasing the first draft of the foundation’s suggested blueprint for the way foreward.

NewstalkZB leads its talkback rival LIVE by a country mile in a new radio survey, conducted by TNS for NZME. The ongoing gulf between the two illustrates the immense, seemingly insurmountable problem experienced by TV3 and many of the newer radio stations when they take on long-entrenched media like TVNZ and NewstalkZB (the latter also has a stronger signal – at least in Auckland).

New Zealand companies looking to gain a foothold in the lucrative Chinese market need to appreciate that social media in China operates in a different way, says Boyd PR Auckland senior consultant Zhao Ling.

NZ cinema audiences rewrote the record books in 2014 – NZ box office records are now the highest in cinema history. This exceeds the previous best year, 2010, when Avatar redefined box office records globally.