AUCKLAND, Wednesday: The winner of a NZME competition aimed at celebrating innovation and uniqueness in print advertising has been announced today, with media agency OMD taking out the top spot.

AUCKLAND, Today: 12 months into its Good Impressions initiative, the company has announced that its clients have donated 57 million Good Impressions to 12 benefitting organisations.

AUCKLAND, Today: Metro magazine – until recently run by ACP Magazines Australia – has joined the fold of Japanese-New Zealand businessman Hideaki Fukutake’s Still Group NZ, according to a report in BusinessDesk.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: A low-key NZ media company – with the help of Auckland indie creative/digital shop Daylight – today steps out from behind its screens to reveal their universe through a whole new website and rebrand, “helping you give a shit”.

AUCKLAND, Today: Forensic and data science firm Oritain has appointed Spark Foundry NZ as their agency of record to drive their global marketing strategy, media, planning and buying.

AUCKLAND, Today: Brought to you by NZ quiz events company Believe It Or Not, An Evening with Shaun Wallace will be raising funds for the John Walker Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation, Hawkes’s Bay Foundation Cyclone Relief Fund, Lifeflight, Youthline Southland and Kaiapoi Promotion Association.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Phantom Billstickers’ innovative out-of-home experience for the season 3 launch of The Boys has been shortlisted for the World Out Of Home Awards in Portugal.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Road by Karangahape, a perfume capturing ‘Karangahape Road in a bottle’, will be released globally today — with absolutely no online orders allowed.