Auckland fashion photographer Holly Sarah Burgess and Nike, with a little help from Auckland’s Britomart centre, have launched a new zine, The Rise – essentially a vehicle to market Nike products in general, and the Nike Cortez range in particular.

Spark NZ has signed a conditional agreement to acquire marketing automation provider Ubiquity in a move they say “will blend the considerable marketing software strengths of Ubiquity together with the powerful smarts of Spark’s big data and analytics software business Qrious”.

Auckland-based research collective Fresh Focus has been selected as a finalist in the 2017 AUT Business School Excellence in Business Support Awards.

1-1/digital agency justONE has launched a new campaign for building supplies specialist ITM, breaking a six-year drought for ITM brand campaigns.

The London International Awards has extended its deadline to Friday 30 June. The winners & finalists will be announced at the awards ceremony in Las Vegas on Wednesday 1 November.

Work in Adland – but your parents tell everyone you work at the local Macca’s? Read on to discover the cause of their shame: A new study into the trustworthiness of 30 different professions in Australia paints a bleak picture of the honesty of people working in the advertising industry, with Adland voted the second least trustworthy profession, only slightly ahead of car salesmen.