Fairfax Media has announced a strategic investment in shopping innovation start-up Pricemaker. The media company has become a 50% shareholder in the business, in a move which “supports their commitment to growing mobile and digital capabilities to benefit customers and audiences”.

NZ has picked up a total of 24 shortlist places overnight at the Cannes Lions – three in PR, eight in Promo & Activation, 11 in Direct, one in Pharma, and one in the Young Director Award.

Clemenger BBDO has won two Wellington-based accounts left homeless by the departure of M&C Saatchi in April.

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The 2014 Football World Cup, which kicked off in Brazil Friday morning, has already generated more social buzz than any comparable event ever.

While most of adland was packing their matching set of Louis Vuitton luggage bound for the south of France to take things all too seriously, Sugar&Partners CDs Dave Nash & Damon O’Leary stormed London’s satirical Chip Shop Awards.

Parnell-based brand communications agency The Business has won Davanti Consulting after a pitch.

The other agencies have not been identified – and there was no incumbent of note.

NZAX-listed mobile advertising technology company Snakk Media has today unveiled increased revenues – and announced it is to open an office in Singapore.

New Zealand cancer charity Look Good Feel Better has undergone a makeover of its own with the help of Brother Design. The first in a series of above-the-line print ads will launch during an awareness campaign for Feel Better Month in July and beyond.