NEW YORK, Today: Special Auckland is the only NZ or Australian agency to feature in the Global Creative Rankings, released overnight – and dominated by agencies from the US Germany, Brazil, and Canada.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Entries are now open for NZ’s premier commercial radio creative competition, The ORCAs.

AUCKLAND, Today: New Zealand’s Top 10 print apprentices for 2022 have been unveiled by PrintNZ alongside Competenz/Te Pūkenga.

AUCKLAND, Today: NZ-based online private school Crimson Global Academy has relaunched its brand, with creative input from Previously Unavailable’s James Hurman and Phoebe Devine.

LONDON, Tuesday: Tribal/DDB Group Aotearoa has taken out Best in Show for Samsung iTest at The Caples Awards 2022. The campaign also scored two Golds, a Silver and a Bronze, and DDB Group Aotearoa was named Caples Agency of the Year.

LONDON, Monday: NZ’s Media Design School’s AdSchool Programme has won four D&AD New Blood Pencils in the UK.

AUCKLAND, Today: TVNZ last night celebrated the 30th anniversary of Shortland Street, with a special ad break, showcasing some of the brands the show’s worked with over the years.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: “When we combine both gullibility and inaccuracy we end up with some people treating anything they hear on the news with open cynicism yet steadfastly defending to the death any drivel that their auntie’s cousin heard.”

NEW YORK, Monday: The One Show has named Special Auckland as 2022 APAC Independent Agency of the Year, and The Post Office Auckland as 2022 APAC Production Company of the Year.