“At the time, FCB creatives Billy McQueen and Chris Schofield would have been unaware that the faceless entity they unveiled become one of the most recognisable characters in NZ advertising,” writes NZ Herald business journalist Damien Venuto in a full-page (no ads!) 10-year birthday salute to Pak’nSave’s iconic campaign.

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.

Kiwi web entrepreneurs Blutui have teamed up with UK agency Creativepool to pitch to a shared market at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival.

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.

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).

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).

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.