Ireland’s premier international creative advertising awards show, the Kinsale Shark Awards, is now open for entries. As from today, Film, Music Video, Print and Design categories can all be entered until the deadline on Wednesday 6 September. The festival runs from Thursday 21-Saturday 23 September in Kinsale, Ireland.

The Advertising Standards Authority has today reported that advertising revenue across all main media was $2.572 billion dollars for the 12 months ended 31 December 2016 (the 2015 total was $2.570 billion).

In a global first, VMO has launched a Programmatic Outdoor product that allows advertisers to target specific demographics in real time across its outdoor networks. The product has launched today in New Zealand with its first partner – global brand Subway.

Getty Images London creative insights manager Jacqueline Bourke will join Special Group ECD Tony Bradbourne, and TVNZ Blacksand ECD Jens Hertzum to address the masses at the Marketing Association’s upcoming Brainy Breakfast in Auckland.

The winners of the CAANZ 2017 Beacon Awards (held in association with NZME) will be unveiled at the annual gala dinner at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre this Thursday (May 4).

It’s NZ Music Month again – and “the greatest radio station in the world”, Radio Hauraki, has created the ultimate NZ music challenge just for you.

The 2017 New York Festivals International Advertising Awards is set to take place in NYC’s Lincoln Theatre in just over two weeks – on Thursday 18 May, with actor Debi Mazar emceeing the show.

DDB’s Liz Richards & Nick Dellabarca of DDB, with FCB’s Mitch Wiffin & Qassem Naim, are renewing their passports in anticipation of their trip to Cannes having taken out the Film & Media categories at Val Morgan’s Young Lions competition.