Auckland-based PR & activations agency Darkhorse NZ has announced a partnership with Unfiltered, the NZ startup global digital educational platform which shares advice from some of the best business minds in the world via highly curated video content.

The Asia Pacific Effie Awards shone their light on Godzone Friday night – pinning a Gold and a Silver on Special Group its innovative 2degrees Data Hunt campaign, and Colenso BBDO with two more global Golds for Pedigree Child Replacement Programme.

“We’ve gone compact,” hails a release emailed to us over the weekend by Stuff’s in-house Ponsonby-based PR division communications manager Lucy Hempseed.

Two prized D&AD Yellow Pencils came NZ’s way at the 56th D&AD Awards ceremony in London last night. They went to DDB for Nescafe Re:Scam, and Y&R, which picked up a Yellow for Heinz Geoff.

M+AD asked Adfest 2018 judge Chris Flack, who’s design director at Strategy Creative Christchurch, for the top 10 things he learned in Thailand last month …

By Sydney-based Ooyala Asia-Pacific chief Steve Davis, an occasional M+AD contributor: The emergence of multiple delivery channels is placing increasing pressures on established video production companies. Where once broadcast television was king, viewers now have a portfolio of viewing options which, in turn, is causing challenges for content creators.

Leading independent Australiasian PR agency Thrive has opened its fifth office – on Queensland’s Gold Coast, at Southport. Thrive’s other locations include Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland.

New Zealand has won three Webby Awards and two People’s Voice Awards at the 22nd Annual Webby Awards in New York.

The Advertising Standards Authority has reported that advertising revenue across all main media was NZ$2.561 billion for the 12 months ended 31 December 2017. The 2016 total was $2.572 billion.

High-impact business breakfast Future of the Future is back for a second year in Auckland with a commanding lineup of global visionaries from Google, Airbnb, Netflix and Spotify.