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K Road indie agency Goodfolk has started the year on the good foot, with a pair of significant wins. Prior to Christmas, Goodfolk won the pitch for a global internal engagement campaign for Fletcher Building, who have upwards of 19,000 employees worldwide. In late January, they were also confirmed as Auckland Council’s digital communications and engagement agency, in partnership with digital developers Phosphor.

Entries for the CAANZ Beacon Awards (formerly the Media Awards) close at 4pm next Wednesday (February 18). There’s also a 48-hour extension available – for $515+gst ($265 entry + $250 late fee).

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Auckland’s Social Media Club (#smcakl) kicks off its first get-together of 2015 next week (Wednesday 18 February) from 6 pm to 8pm @ Vodafone HQ, 20 Viaduct Harbour Avenue – and all M+AD readers are invited.

Whybin\TBWA CD Lisa Fedyszyn is already making a strong impression in her first stint as an executive juror on the New York Festivals Awards. “We’re so excited that she is on board to judge the shortlisted entries, and that she will also lend her creative insights to our young creatives competition, the Torch Awards,” NYF PR director Gayle Seminara Mandel told M+AD this morning.

This month’s Ad of the Month Agency League judges were kept busy judging ads from both December and January with two agencies receiving points on the Agency League table. 

OMD has introduced the ad business to the latest successful grads from its annual graduate recruitment programme which sees the agency take on around six graduates every year in an internship capacity.