Grey Lynn-based programmatic agency Acquire Online is now offering its Waze navigation app as an advertising tool. Waze currently claims 36,000 Kiwi customers.
Colenso & Fish craft new Monteith’s platform
Colenso BBDO and the Monteith’s have launched the beermaker’s new communications platform, Brewed For Right Now, since 1868.
Phantom hits Arch Hill
Phantom Billstickers has continued to expand its cunning locations in Auckland’s high-traffic areas, including Bond St in the Grey Lynn/Kingsland/Arch Hill gateways to the city – and the gateway to Eden Park.
Jacinda and NZH seek creativity lift

Jacinda Ardern and the NZ Herald are leading a push to integrate creativity into all areas of NZ society, following the release of a Creative NZ survey yesterday.
Gifted grads win at D&AD New Blood

2017 AdSchool Auckland students Adam Redmond and Emerson Hunt, who graduate from MDS in just a couple of weeks, have converted their internship at FCB into a fulltime job – and this week they received news from London that they’ve won a Pencil at the D&AD New Blood Awards for a Burger King idea they came up with for their end-of-year portfolio.
Deadline extension costs $150

The organisers of the 2018 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards are offering a deadline extension until 5pm tomorrow (Friday) – but it comes at a price.
Epica 2018 arises at the Cannes Lions fest

Entries to the 2018 Epica Awards open on Monday 31 July in Cannes. Epica is the only global creative prize awarded by the specialist press (that’s us!).
Entries open in one month

The pinnacle in advertising success in New Zealand (+ 25 other countries on five continents), the 2018 Effie Awards – held in association with TVNZ – will open for entries next month.
oOh! continues to court Adshel
The Aussie HQ of outdoor media behemoth oOh!media has not given up on its quest for Adshel, offering almost half-a-billion Australian dollars to acquire the rival company.