Saatchi & Saatchi has won the ANZ Bank’s sponsorship business, which became available when True picked up the ASB brand account, bringing to an end its partnership with ANZ. There was no pitch.

The 2017 Spikes Asia Innovation jury has selected DDB/Mango’s Rialto Breast Cancer Screenings campaign as one of 10 entries to make the category shortlist.

Viaduct Harbour-based digital advertising sales house Ad2one has signed interest.co.nz to its first party data network, and will now represent interest’s data offering.

“Are market researchers addicted to the dopamine of insight?” The Distillery founder Mark Buntzen asked his fellow research professionals at the Research Association of New Zealand conference in Auckland recently. This week, exclusively for M+AD, he answers his own question…

NZ conservation charity Kiwis for kiwi has joined forces with Old Mout Cider UK to generate support to save the kiwi from extinction (only 40,000 left in the wild).

Only one nod for New Zealand at the Warc Awards in the UK – Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu were recognised with a Shortlist nomination for their powerful NZ Heart Foundation campaign, in the Brand Purpose category.

Just one week till the doors open at the region’s most prestigious creative advertising show – the Spikes Asia, to be held again this year in Singapore. The festival runs Wednesday-Friday 27-29 September.

QMSNZ has launched The Panorama, a premium digital billboard situated in the heart of the main terminal at Wellington International Airport. 

Tickets for Effie 2017 go on sale tomorrow (Friday 22 September). M+AD will publish the purchase link in our daily edition, which hits the streets around 1pm.