FCB has won a Vehicle Testing NZ creative pitch. Three agencies were involved. The incumbent was Assignment but the other pitchers have not been identified.

Special Group has been ranked the Most Effective Independent Agency in all Asia-Pacific, and #6 Most Effective Independent Agency in the world (six places above Droga5 NYC, and 48 places above Mother London) in the London-based Effie Effectiveness Index.

NZ music publishing company Songbroker has now set up office in Los Angeles with Kiwi musician Greg Johnson representing the catalogue.

Grey Lynn-based programmatic agency Acquire Online is now offering its Waze navigation app as an advertising tool. Waze currently claims 36,000 Kiwi customers.

Colenso BBDO and the Monteith’s have launched the beermaker’s new communications platform, Brewed For Right Now, since 1868.

Phantom Billstickers has continued to expand its cunning locations in Auckland’s high-traffic areas, including Bond St in the Grey Lynn/Kingsland/Arch Hill gateways to the city – and the gateway to Eden Park.

Jacinda Ardern and the NZ Herald are leading a push to integrate creativity into all areas of NZ society, following the release of a Creative NZ survey yesterday.

2017 AdSchool Auckland students Adam Redmond and Emerson Hunt, who graduate from MDS in just a couple of weeks, have converted their internship at FCB into a fulltime job – and this week they received news from London that they’ve won a Pencil at the D&AD New Blood Awards for a Burger King idea they came up with for their end-of-year portfolio.

The organisers of the 2018 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards are offering a deadline extension until 5pm tomorrow (Friday) – but it comes at a price.

Entries to the 2018 Epica Awards open on Monday 31 July in Cannes. Epica is the only global creative prize awarded by the specialist press (that’s us!).