SYDNEY, Wednesday: Best Ads On TV guest judges Etienne Renaux & Paul Marty (ECDs at Herezie Paris) have selected FCB NZ’s Return to Script Department for Fire & Emergency NZ as the world’s best print ad in the past week. (Scroll down and click & expand the image to read the copy).

AUCKLAND, Today: The Sound has launched a new ad campaign – created in-house at MediaWorks– that puts the “best music ever made” front and centre of its creative. 

AUCKLAND, Today: Exciting as it’s been – one of the trials of this year’s racing reportage has been a deluge of gushy over-the-top patriotism (blame Pete Montgomery’s “The America’s Cup is now New Zealand’s cup” in 1995).

AUCKLAND, Today: Special Group NZ has created a new St Patrick’s Day street poster campaign, encouraging New Zealanders to celebrate this afternoon – responsibly.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Outdoor exponent Lumo has unveiled “New Zealand’s first creative studio for digital out-of-home”.

AUCKLAND, Today: The IAB New Zealand has released its 2020 Digital Advertising Revenue Report, a snapshot of Q4 2020 and the full year 2020 along with trends, to provide a contextual overview of the New Zealand digital advertising market.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Indie media agency Together has been named as Arvida Group’s new media & marketing technology partner. The incumbent was Fuse, but there was no formal pitch.

NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday: Leading AUNZ technology-based insights agency Perceptive (part of the Clemenger Group) is helping Rockgas redefine its customer engagement and experience strategy by reviewing how they service customers*.