HONG KONG, Today: A lifelong non-smoker – who now works for global tobacco giant Philip Morris in New Zealand – has been appointed a judge at this year’s Campaign Agency of the Year.

AUCKLAND, Today: Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day Poetry “escapes into the wild” in just over a fortnight – on Friday 26 August.

AUCKLAND, Today: Val Morgan and McDonald’s have teamed up to gamify the cinema experience with the launch of CineGame.

AUCKLAND, Today: Ponsonby agency BCG2 has been awarded the GasNZ account. GasNZ represents both the LPG Association and the Gas Association of NZ. Its vision is that renewable gases (including BioLPG, biogas and hydrogen gas) are a material part of the energy system in Aotearoa.

LONDON, Friday: Bad news for digital ad spending may be good news for old-school advertising agencies, according to The Financial Times.

AUCKLAND, Today: Each year TRB’s Outstanding Radio Creative Awards is expanded to a student competition. In 2022, Students from AUT University and Media Design School were given a live brief to create an audio campaign for the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: A recent campaign between Hnry and MediaWorks station The Rock spotlights the combined power of audio and out-of-home.

AUCKLAND, Today: NZ specialist investment manager Fisher Funds has appointed the country’s largest independent agency, Stanley St, as its agency of record for strategy, creative, brand and media, following a competitive pitch.