To celebrate the upcoming Football World Cup & their Widespace publishing partnership, Big Mobile & Sky Kiwi hosted the six-a-side indoor agency football tournament in Auckland.
Blutui and Creativepool pair up in Cannes

Kiwi web entrepreneurs Blutui have teamed up with UK agency Creativepool to pitch to a shared market at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival.
Blimmin Gooorgeous
M+AD today salutes Topp Twins Jools & Lynda who have been finally and deservedly recognised by the Crown after a lifetime of enlightened humour, with a knighthood.
Colenso & Mars cook up a dogustation menu
Mars NZ and Colenso BBDO are aiming to turn Dog World is turned into a culinary adventure in the new My Dog campaign.
Cannes Lions links

There’s now just 15 days to go to the launch of the 2018 Cannes Lions Festival, in France on Monday 18 June (ends on Friday 22 June).
Aids Foundation takes a new shot at HIV
A new campaign created by Sydney agency Frost*Collective is encouraging gay men to “drop their load” to end HIV transmission.
Cheers, Ma’am!

If ever there was a living anachronism, that would have to be the institution that we know as Queen’s Birthday – still officially celebrated throughout New Zealand and Australia. Which means, of course, no M+AD Daily on Monday (4 June).
Global force refreshes coffee brand
Publicis Sydney/London and MediaCom NZ are part of a high-powered global agency team that produced and shot a new integrated campaign for Nescafé Gold as the coffee brand relaunches its richer tasting barista-style coffee across New Zealand.
Kiwis make the changes at key Singapore awards show
Former FCB NZ media director Anna Chitty (now CEO of PHD China) and PHD NZ CEO Louise Bond were last night named winners of the Campaign Asia-Pacific Women Leading Change Awards in Singapore.
PHD leads NZ’s Tangrams juggernaut

Auckland agencies Republik and PHD have multiple entries through to the finals of Tangrams Effectivenes & Strategy Awards, which will be presented during Spikes Asia in September. PHD has seven, Republik two, and one went to MBM.


