South Korea’s New Stars – the APAC region’s main challenge for young creatives – has issued its annual invitation for creatives with fewer than three years’ experience (or aged under 30) to register for the 2017  this year’s competition.

With Easter just days away, Colenso BBDO and client Spark have collaborated on a new social campaign, #NoEggLeftBehind. This campaign aims to help families track and find their Easter eggs in the free time they have over the holiday weekend.

Colenso BBDO has signed the formidable creative pairing of Levi Slavin and Dan Wright direct from BBDO New York. They start in Auckland on Monday 1 May. But just as the home-bound pair board the plane at JFK, two more Colenso creatives – equally as formidable – have handed in their cards (read on).

Assignment Group head of strategy Martin Yeoman and CD Jamie Hitchcock are leaving to form their own agency, The Enthusiasts.

Among the honours being heaped on the late John Clarke/Fred Dagg is one he’d probably rather not have – star of the cheapest TVC visuals ever.

The Cannes Lions organisation has enlisted M+AD to help in its global search for a young journalist to travel to France to report on the 2017 festival – all expenses paid. While the search is global, the Lions have specifically sought to distribute the invitations to Kiwis.

Programmatic agency Acquire Online has confirmed media industry experts Adrian Pickstock (IAB ceo), KPEX ceo Richard Thompson, and Acquire Online programmatic director Zane Furtado will be the keynote speakers at their Techweek NZ events next month.

The One Show over the weekend promoted four NZ agencies in its second wave of finalists – Ogilvy, Colenso BBDO, Resn and FCB.

TVNZ and its creative/production arm Blacksand today start rolling out a national campaign to “prepare the public of the dangers that lie ahead” when Survivor New Zealand premieres on 2 next month.