New Zealand interactive advertising reported in 2017 reached a record $NZ923m for the full year ($257m Q4) – a 7% year-on-year increase.

Public relations companies exist to, among other things, get publicity for their customers. It therefore stands to reason that the agency should have the chops to get itself publicity too. And that’s something which independent research from Tangible Media has shown Pead PR does better most.

Agency executive Paul Manning has walked away from a lucrative career as MD of one of the nation’s largest creative shops to take a $5 million punt on a start-up business in a start-up industry that doesn’t exist yet.

You can always rely on NZ Herald writer Chris Rattue to provide a searching examination of major sports events. In Saturday’s paper his focus was the World Championship Parker vs Joshua heavyweight title fight (read it here).

We at M+AD are not particularly religious types – but when it comes to festive holidays, we’ll take ’em, along with everybody else!

Spark, Facebook and Colenso BBDO have joined forces to create the Tall Shorts Film Festival, flipping the traditional landscape film format on its side with a vertical-format film festival “for the mobile age”.