A sell-out crowd of just under 1000 of New Zealand’s leading media personalities came together last night to celebrate the industry’s best work from the past year at the 2018 Commercial Communications Council Beacon Awards, in association with NZME.

The biggest awards show in this part of the world, the Spikes Asia, has issued its call for entries, with early-bird savings available until 20 July.

The winners of the 2018 New Zealand Radio Awards were announced at the awards ceremony at Auckland’s Shed 10 last night – which doubled as a celebration of the awards’ 40th anniversary.

Burger King New Zealand has announced it is consolidating creative and media agencies under one roof. Y&R NZ had previously delivered BK’s media strategy, trading and implementation services. BK has now extended Y&R’s remit to include creative, social and digital.

Over 80 agency glitterati joined together at K Rd’s Thievery Productions on Wednesday night to celebrate the launch of a groundbreaking new book by New Zealander Sarah Ritchie, titled How to Wrestle an Octopus: an agency account manager’s guide to pretty much everything.

BP has re-selected WPP as its preferred partner to provide marketing communication services for its corporate, fuels and Castrol businesses globally.

New nationwide GfK radio audience measurement figures relating to the 12-month period to 7th April 2018 have just been released. They show 636,600 New Zealanders or 15% of the population, are tuned in to RNZ radio stations in an average week.

The new design and fitout of Maori TV Auckland HQ has been named a finalist in the 2018 Interior Awards. Also featuring as a finalist is a head-turning hi-octane showroom for Aston Martin and Lamborghini on Great North Road. 

For reasons known only to themselves, PR firm Sweeny Vesty has declined to allow M+AD to preview two new Whittaker’s chocolate tvcs due to hit the airwaves on Sunday.

As the video medium continues to explode in popularity, Auckland-based hybrid creative Mardo El Noor – who describes himself as “a bespectacled, left-handed chai latte drinker” – is challenging norms by telling a story in one single frame.