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.

Paris-based freelance British journalist Mark Tungate – the gent who runs the Epica Advertising Awards – has released a new book about the business of travel, The Escape Industry.

Leading skin cancer detection specialist MoleMap has appointed J Walter Thompson New Zealand as its agency of record, after a competitive pitch. 

Following a competitive pitch that dates back to July, Goodman Fielder is understood to have appointed its new agency partners, according to a report in StopPress.

“Despite our name, we don’t operate a ghostly, fly-by-night service – installing posters in 6000+ frames each week from Whangarei to Invercargill is a dawn-to-dusk logistics act,” reads the latest Phantom Billstickers flyer – and, as usual with comms from this lively outfit, it’s a good read.

InMobi, perhaps the world’s largest independent mobile advertising platform, has forged a partnership with Auckland-based indie marketing agency Digital Commons.

Te Aro-based content creation agency Wrestler provided the artistry behind The Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency’s new Australian tourism campaign.

Big data analytics business Qrious announced today it will be putting its weight behind the cause of professional marketing in New Zealand – by becoming a principal business partner of the Marketing Association.

Budget airline AirAsia reckons it is “reminding the public of its promises to New Zealanders” with its own #VoteAirAsia campaign ahead of this year’s NZ election this Saturday.

FCB is through to the finals of the Switzerland-based Care Awards with its Made From Remains smoke alarm campaign produced for the New Zealand Fire Service.