The winners of the 2018 New Zealand Radio Awards were announced at the awards ceremony at Auckland’s Shed 10 last night – which doubled as a celebration of the awards’ 40th anniversary.

Burger King New Zealand has announced it is consolidating creative and media agencies under one roof. Y&R NZ had previously delivered BK’s media strategy, trading and implementation services. BK has now extended Y&R’s remit to include creative, social and digital.

Over 80 agency glitterati joined together at K Rd’s Thievery Productions on Wednesday night to celebrate the launch of a groundbreaking new book by New Zealander Sarah Ritchie, titled How to Wrestle an Octopus: an agency account manager’s guide to pretty much everything.

BP has re-selected WPP as its preferred partner to provide marketing communication services for its corporate, fuels and Castrol businesses globally.

New nationwide GfK radio audience measurement figures relating to the 12-month period to 7th April 2018 have just been released. They show 636,600 New Zealanders or 15% of the population, are tuned in to RNZ radio stations in an average week.

The new design and fitout of Maori TV Auckland HQ has been named a finalist in the 2018 Interior Awards. Also featuring as a finalist is a head-turning hi-octane showroom for Aston Martin and Lamborghini on Great North Road. 

For reasons known only to themselves, PR firm Sweeny Vesty has declined to allow M+AD to preview two new Whittaker’s chocolate tvcs due to hit the airwaves on Sunday.

As the video medium continues to explode in popularity, Auckland-based hybrid creative Mardo El Noor – who describes himself as “a bespectacled, left-handed chai latte drinker” – is challenging norms by telling a story in one single frame.

Bauer Media and Long Haul Publications, publishers of Deals on Wheels/Farm Trader and New Zealand Trucking magazines respectively, have announced a joint venture deal they say will significantly change the commercial vehicle, machinery, and farm equipment advertising landscape in New Zealand. 

DDB’s latest TV work for Speight’s – entitled The Dance, shot by The Sweet Shop’s Steve Ayson – is a beautiful film, wrote Toygar Bazarkaya, CCO at We Are Unlimited, NY, the guest judge for this week’s edition of global site Bestadsontv.