“Dear Ed,” writes Sugar & Partners managing partner Jeremy Johnston, about the detail in yesterday’s M+AD story headed Sugar – with Mike O at the helm – shoots Super Rugby. “A small point of clarification re your headline angle?

NZ agency adspend last year reached 1 billion dollars for the first time. In total, NZ$$NZ1.045 billion was spent on major media, according to Standard Media Index data.

Following “a record-breaking year” which saw Bruce Springsteen, Adele, Paul McCartney and last weekend the Foo Fighters grace its stage, Mt Smart Stadium is in the market for a new naming rights partner.

Pedigree’s humorous Child Replacement Programme campaign in New Zealand, created by Colenso BBDO Auckland, has been named the third most creative campaign in the world., by the global Gunn Report. The campaign encourages parents to adopt a dog once their children have left home.

Auckland-based billboard company Ad-Vantage Media, which specialises in placements on Auckland’s motorway system, has added a new one – on the Northern Motorway between the Constellation Drive on-ramp and Albany off-ramp.

New Zealand Olympic Committee and Saatchi NZ launch new brand platform – #EarnTheFern which features our Winter Olympic athletes in Pyeongchang.