London: It was announced Friday that Terry Savage, chairman of Cannes Lions, will leave the festival following the 2018 event.

Newstalk ZB is NZ’s No 1 commercial radio network – by a comfortable margin – according to the latest Q4 results out of the Radio Broadcasters Association’s GfK Q4 2017 report. The network also won Breakfast, with Mike Hosking scoring a massive 14.2% of the audience (ahead of More FM Breakfast’s 9%).

FCB has confirmed its revised policy of not supplying full agency credits with its regular releases of new work – but Colenso BBDO, which started the practice some time back, has agreed to take a fresh look at the issue early next year, heralding a possible welcome return to full information disclosure.

The NZ outpost of global media agency Vizeum (part of the Dentsu Aegis Network) has won the Partridge Jewellers account to manage media strategy and planning across all media, as well as buying duties across digital, television and radio.

M+AD is taking a month-long break over Xmas/New Year. Our last edition for 2017 is just one week away – next Friday 15 December.

Auckland based design company Alt Group has been honoured with three accolades in the AGDA Awards in Canberra.

The One Show has appointed FCB NZ ECD Tony Clewett to the jury for the 2018 awards, to be held in New York City in May.

APAC outdoor exponent QMS Media has bought a strategic acquisition of a majority stake holding in Digital Commons, a leading NZ third-party digital representation agency.

The Comms Council and its partner NZME tomorrow (Friday) issue the entry call for the 2018 Beacon Awards.