Former FCB NZ media director Anna Chitty – now ceo at PHD China – has been named a judge for the Warc 2017 Prize for Asian Strategy, a Singapore-based competition with a US$10,000 prize.

Ogilvy and Clemenger BBDO each have three entries shortlisted for The One Show in New York in May. In total, New Zealand has 11 on the shortlist.

Auckland Council has commenced its mandatory three-year review of its agency partners – currently DDB (creative), PHD (media), Goodfolk (digital) and Alt Group (design).

NZME’s Cassie Roma GM content marketing & experiential) will address the issues of fake news, big buzzwords and blurred lines when she talks at the Marketing Association’s Digital Day Out next month.

New York & Paris-based creative library Ad Forum has selected DDB’s Lotto Dylan as the global #2 TVC of the week (to Monday 17 April).

MediaCom (with 18 finalists – eight of them with BCG2) leads the way in the list released by CAANZ today for the upcoming Beacon Awards next month. Close behind come FCB Media (17), PHD (12), OMD (10), Carat (6 – two with Special Group, and three with Saatchi), Starcom 6(one with DDB).

This is the last issue of our M+AD daily e-newsletter until after Easter (there’ll be no email tomorrow or Monday – but it’ll back on Tuesday).

NZME’s free video-on-demand website is set to expand with the launch of 16 new entertainment series and two new channels – News and Sport.

Asia-Pacific creativity festival the Spikes Asia has merged with the Tangrams Effectiveness awards programme, which will now sit alongside Spikes Asia 2017.