Asia-Pacific creativity festival the Spikes Asia has merged with the Tangrams Effectiveness awards programme, which will now sit alongside Spikes Asia 2017.

Twin city (Hamilton & Tauranga) creative agency King St Advertising got into the Easter spirit yesterday by filming the shenanagins – featuring an Easter egg hunt that culminates in a punch-up between ceo Chris Williams and group GM Tim Paton.

Bauer flagship title North & South has won a legion of new Green friends with its latest cover feature, a Vanity Fair-style photoshoot of the Green Party candidates – enough story potential to interest the Herald, which ran 200 words and the cover on A8 yesterday.

Global kudos keep coming to Colenso BBDO – the latest being named among the top five socially aware agencies in 2016 by The Good Report.

MediaWorks has appointed newly established WeThinkMedia as its advertising representation agency in Australia, effective immediately.

South Korea’s New Stars – the APAC region’s main challenge for young creatives – has issued its annual invitation for creatives with fewer than three years’ experience (or aged under 30) to register for the 2017  this year’s competition.

With Easter just days away, Colenso BBDO and client Spark have collaborated on a new social campaign, #NoEggLeftBehind. This campaign aims to help families track and find their Easter eggs in the free time they have over the holiday weekend.

Colenso BBDO has signed the formidable creative pairing of Levi Slavin and Dan Wright direct from BBDO New York. They start in Auckland on Monday 1 May. But just as the home-bound pair board the plane at JFK, two more Colenso creatives – equally as formidable – have handed in their cards (read on).

Assignment Group head of strategy Martin Yeoman and CD Jamie Hitchcock are leaving to form their own agency, The Enthusiasts.

Among the honours being heaped on the late John Clarke/Fred Dagg is one he’d probably rather not have – star of the cheapest TVC visuals ever.