NEW YORK, Tuesday: New York Festivals International Advertising Awards is now accepting entries for the 2019 competition.“These awards charge out of the gate with new and improved categories and the unveiling of the NYF Advisory Board, a world-class panel comprised of some of the most prominent global agency leaders from around the world,” says newly appointed executive director Susan Glass Ruse.

Adman/journalist/author (and former NBR ed) Ian F Grant is about to publish Lasting Inpressions: The Story of New Zealand Newspapers, a hard-cover history of New Zealand dailies between 1840 and 1920.

The 676-page book will be launched by Gordon McLauchlan on Wednesday 17 October. It will retail for $69.50.

This is the first comprehensive history of New Zealand newspapers since Dr Guy Scholefield’s Newspapers in New Zealand in 1958.

Adshel has announced its support of the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year competition and exhibition. Now in its 10th year, the NZ Geographic comp is our richest photographic competition, providing a recognised platform of success for finalists and category winners.

HAMILTON, Today: A New Zealand company has just joined an exclusive group of global software integrators to earn Microsoft’s Co-Sell Ready designation.

AUCKLAND, Today: North Shore-based customer intelligence agency Perceptive has been appointed as a global insights partner for NZ software providers Vend and Xero.

Agency people throughout the country would have been amused to see New Zealand born-and-bred agency Augusto described on the latest front page of The Herald on Sunday as “an American advertising agency”.

M+AD got one detail wrong in yesterday’s report about the Spikes Asia – but it was a big one: DDB actually won two Grand Prix (not one as we reported).