BUSAN, South Korea, Tuesday: Programme director Kate Humphries reports: “In the past two weeks, MDS AdSchool’s creative advertising students have not only had a fantastic haul at AdStars, with 33 ideas shortlisted in the non-professional category; they’ve also had two finalists make the cut ahead of final judging of the Student Orcas; and have been awarded 1 Yellow Pencil, 1 Graphite Pencil and 2 Wood Pencils at this year’s D&AD New Blood Award Show.

AUCKLAND, Today: Ogilvy NZ has won a pitch for fast-growing NZ e-commerce platform TheMarket. Ogilvy NZ now becomes TheMarket’s agency for strategy, creative and brand work.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: “Founded in 1948, but most popular in the 1960s and 70s, the New Zealand Crown Lynn pottery brand is interwoven into our history,” writes Shanti Mathias in yesterday’s The Spinoff Weekend e-newsletter (scroll down for the link).

AUCKLAND, Today: “As Abraham Lincoln said, ‘better to remain silent and to be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt’.”

AUCKLAND, Today: Two Kiwis have been appointed to prestigious overseas awards shows – Colenso BBDO ECD Maria Devereux and Kiwi expat Malcolm Poynton, global CCO of Cheil Worldwide.

AUCKLAND, Today: The winners of the 2022 New Zealand Radio Awards have been announced from an awards ceremony at Sky City Theatre in Auckland with the industry watching from screens around the country.