NEW YORK, Today: The One Club for Creativity has selected four senior Kiwi creatives to serve as judges for The One Show 2022. Around 400 top creatives from 48 countries will judge work from around the world.

PARIS, Today: The 4th edition of the Gerety Awards has appointed Colenso BBDO ECD Maria Devereux as a member of its 2022 grand jury. The Geretys reward the best in advertising from the female vision – but both sexes can and do enter.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Nielsen has unveiled “an exciting” new venture in collaboration with the NZ Radio Broadcasters Association to fuse radio currency data with the in-depth audience insights available in Nielsen’s Consumer & Media Insights (CMI) data.

AUCKLAND, Today: The complexity of implementing joined up communication programmes through marketing automation platforms is not for the faint hearted. Universal Homes turned to Quantum Jump to help create customer journeys and creative templates for a wide range of customer experiences.

AUCKLAND, Today: Federation’s new recruitment campaign for Massey University breaks the sector’s advertising genre of ‘skyward-looking’ students. The campaign launches with a new creative platform “anchored with a fresh, unpolished authenticity”.

AUCKLAND, Today: Humour and Connection to Nature are the two lead characteristics demonstrating ‘Kiwiness’ according to new research launched this morning. The Kiwi Codes research, by leading independent research and insights agency TRA, asked a representative sample of over 4000 New Zealanders about their attitudes to themselves, businesses, and brands post-pandemic.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has issued the entry call for the Axis Awards 2022. The Axis theme next year is A Kind of Magic. “This is the call to conjure up yours,” says ceo Paul Head.

AUCKLAND, Today: Special – the New Zealand-founded global advertising group with offices in Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne and Los Angeles – has announced its next office will be a little closer to home.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: In a somewhat fitting end to the year, one AUT Ad School student received a positive result for Covid-19 as she was putting the finishing touches on her portfolio. “And while her symptoms haven’t been pleasant, she is fully vaccinated and has created a book to be proud of,” says tutor Matt Halliday.