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.

Sydney-based Campaign Brief has issued the entry call for its 2018 CB Australian Agency of the Year, and the CB New Zealand Agency of the Year.

On Friday 13th, M&M’s NZ began pre-haunting boxes of M&M’S in preparation for the Halloween season. Here’s the blurb from Colenso … 

Wellington arts promoter Stewart Macpherson is seeking sponsors to help him mount an Auckland exhibition in NZ of the art of Banksy – the celebrated English street artist of uncertain identity.

Johnny Douglas, the broadcasting programmer who introduced state-owned radio to The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino in the late 1960s, died in Wellington last week aged 79.