Just five days after M+AD published its story about the doors closing at Queen St ad agency Aamplify, the company has gone into liquidation.

Auckland-based brand consultancy YBrand has unveiled a partnership with GridAKL – part of the innovation precinct in the Wynyard Quarter – to launch a campaign celebrating New Zealand innovators, entrepreneurs and people who build things “From Scratch”. 

The Radio Bureau has shot a short video (above) of the free Ralph van Dijk creativity & copywriting roadshows held earlier this month in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Auckland-based The Mail Room Comms informs us that the NZ Events Association Awards are now open for entry. NZEA chair Andrea Scotland said (in the TMC release) that the awards have seen “remarkable year-on-year growth”, creating an intensely competitive forum that promotes excellence within the events sector.

Colenso BBDO and its client Mars (Pedigree SelfieSTIX) have been added to the latest Cannes Lions Top 20 2018 rankings of awarded brands and agencies. 

Singapore-based creative ad tech firm Bonzai has partnered with global sell-side ad tech firm PubMatic to deliver high-impact rich media advertising via publishers in Australia and New Zealand.

M&C Saatchi Australian boss and former worldwide chairman Tom Dery fears an 89-lot housing development overlooking the Shotover River will degrade an iconic Kiwi landscape, according to reports in the Otago Daily Times and the NZ Herald.

New Zealand agencies won a Grand Prix, nine golds, 24 silvers and 12 bronzes at the Ad Stars Awards in Busan over the weekend. The prized Interactive Grand Prix (and multiple golds) went to Colenso BBDO for Pedigree SelfieSTIX.

AUCKLAND, Today: Leading Australasian leading marketing content & comms group WPP AUNZ has today announced – via a Transtasman news release – its financial results for the half year ending 30 June 2018.