AUCKLAND, Today: Clemenger Group’s Auckland-based agencies will be housed at one flagship site from May 2023. Its three-story, 100 College Hill office space, which Clemenger Group has occupied since 1994, will undergo a refurbishment over the next nine months, ready to welcome agency teams moving from its other primary Auckland site at 318 Richmond Road.

AUCKLAND, Today: Short of buying your own fighter plane and learning how not to crash it, a visit to the New Zealand Warbirds Association’s aircraft-filled hangars at Ardmore is as close to Top Gun as most people can get.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council will hold its 2022 Annual General Meeting – virtually – next week at 9am on Thursday 15 September.

AUCKLAND, Today: ANZ tech consultancy The Trade Desk – alongside NZ indie media agency Together – has developed new sustainability target segments, demonstrating their success in a recent Volvo ad campaign in New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Today: Phantom Billstickers last week celebrated National Poetry Day with the announcement of the appointment of poet/writer/editor Chris Tse as 2022’s NZ Poet Laureate.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Media agency Yellow won the Leadership Award – Small-Medium Organisation at the 2022 NZ Diversity Awards NZ announced in Auckland last night.

AUCKLAND, Today: FCB Media has won the Vodafone media account, following a pitch process earlier this year. The incumbent media agency was Wavemaker. DDB Aotearoa remains Vodafone’s creative agency.