APN Outdoor has completed an extensive 12 month, multi-million dollar overhaul of internal & external media assets at Auckland Airport – and has seen a quick response from a range of new advertisers.

The Public Relations Institute of NZ has recognised excellence in the fields of public relations and communications, with the induction of three new Fellows in 2015.

Viaduct Harbour-based video content company BrandWorld’s successful third party platform Discover is back with a new logo, a new look and feel, new presenters, more flexibility. It also comes fully tailored for a host of different distribution methods from YouTube to On Demand, Sky to TVNZ, mobile to web – but with that same “attention grabbing” power based on its original guiding engagement insight: ‘consumers are hardwired to discover’.

DDB has won April’s Newspaper Ad of the Month with its BMW April Fools ad. “A refreshing April Fools ad that needed newspapers to work … and it definitely did that,” agreed the judges, acknowledging also the extension to the April Fools ad which ran the next day congratulating the winner.

Four NZ fashion designers will take to a different kind of catwalk in Parnell tonight to share insights with the ad industry into their competitive brand challenges. A few tickets are still available.

After a rigorous pitch process, Holden New Zealand has appointed Special Group to be their lead advertising agency partner. The incumbent was Ogilvy.

Early bird pricing for Digital Day Out ends at 5pm today (Friday 8 May) and the Marketing Association says there’s still good tickets left.

New Zealand agencies saw 16 entries achieve finalist status overnight at the New York Festivals International Advertising Awards competition. DDB led the way with seven finalists, Colenso has three, Clemenger and Y&R have two, followed Cirkus and MediaWorks with one apiece.