NAPIER, Today: The team at Hawkes Bay-based specialist agribusiness agency Tracta – working across Australia & New Zealand for the likes of John Deere, BASF, Datamars, Vodafone Farmside and Suzuki – have never looked more rural than they do today.

AUCKLAND, Today: Stuff has appointed two directors to its agency sales team, as well as four national business directors in specialist categories, across Retail, Travel, Automotive and Finance – a move aimed at giving clearer focus to both the specialist advertising verticals for growth and key agency relationships.

LONDON, Thursday: Colenso BBDO has been ranked by The Good Report as the 3rd most successful agency on the planet at promoting good causes in 2018.

AUCKLAND, Today: “We are a small but perfectly formed design, animation and post-production company in Eden Terrace, called The Rig,” writes producer Lisa Eversden, introducing us to The Rig, and their new work for NZ building company Latitude Homes.

AUCKLAND, Today: Ogilvy ECDs Lisa Fedyszyn & Jonathan McMahon will be featured speakers at the Marketing Association’s next Brainy Breakfast event, on Tuesday 14 May.

AUCKLAND, Today: M+AD has two tickets to give away (scroll down for the link) to tomorrow’s premiere of NZ independent film Soldiers Without Guns, narrated by Lucy Lawless.

LONDON, Today: Iconic battery brand Duracell has awarded its global creative business (outside the USA) to WPP agency Wunderman Thompson. The Wunderman win came after a four-month multi-agency pitch with 10 agencies in the running.

NEW YORK, Wednesday: In the highest-profile deal the global ad industry has seen in recent memory, Aussie creative overachiever David Droga has sold the agency that bears his name to Dublin-based management consultancy Accenture.