Ogilvy Media NZ has expanded its contract with Countdown to include all media strategy and buying activity, making Ogilvy the supermarket chain’s sole media partner.

Auckland-based creative digital agency Little Giant Linked by Isobar has been awarded business from two of New Zealand’s most successful franchise operations – Green Acres and Hire-a-Hubby.

Four times each year, a questionnaire from Netmedia lands in the M+AD Inbox, seeking an update on our people, our addresses and workflow details. Two minutes later, we return the completed form to Netmedia, and a few minutes after that our contact details are available to the business world.

The 2017 Effie Awards and gala dinner, held by the Comms Council in association with TVNZ, are on tonight at The Langham.

The approach of summer has been good for Phantom Billstickers, which reports it’s been 100% booked – leading to the quick-smart installation of new frames.

Sydney-based Asia-Pacific mobile engagement company Big Mobile is reporting “spectacular results” since it formed a joint venture with Swedish mobile advertising company Widespace to roll out the European outfit’s DSP (digital signals processor) across Australia & NZ.

Two NZ agencies have made it through to the shortlist stage of the 2017 Global Awards (which reward Healthcare campaigns).

The Government has effectively taken a swipe at the NZ ad business by setting up something called the Computer Emergency Response Team (aka Cert), a state agency that is urging consumers to install adblocking software.