Colmar Brunton has won Bronze at the global Esomar Research Effectiveness Awards, held in Amsterdam yesterday at the 70th Anniversary Esomar Congress.

2degrees has appointed DDB as its brand agency, filling the void left by Special Group which the telco abruptly abandoned back in July. There was no pitch.

New York, 14 September – The Cannes Lions organisation is to create a Sustainable Development Goals Lion for the 2018 festival. The plan was unveiled at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly.

J Walter Thompson, with youth media channel Vice and digital strategy agency Heyday have collaborated to gamify politics with a campaign designed to persuade young Kiwis to vote. Currently, only one-third of 18 to 24-year-old citizens not even enrolled.

Adman Fred Dobbs – a key figure in the development of ad agencies in New Zealand – died in Cambridge last week, aged 92.

The 2017 NZ Social Media Conference, dubbed Evolution #SMCNZ17, is on at Sky City in Auckland tomorrow (Friday 15 September and Saturday 16th), featuring a lineup of masters of the art.

While most of us are so glued to our phones that we may as well have them permanently attached, the idea of actually embedding a device under our skin hasn’t quite caught on yet.