NZ has three Pencil winners (the colour will be announced next month) from the first day of results from D&AD London. Australian agencies notched four.

Sydney-based Big Mobile ceo Graham Christie, a regular M+AD contributor, wraps up the latest mobile news from around the APAC region:

My Food Bag has appointed Saatchi & Saatchi as its agency of record, following a competitive pitch that began earlier this year. 

To mark the end of summer each year a festival is held in the Far North fishing port of Mangonui. Local producers display and sell their wares, business houses arrange water sport contests and the last of the summer tourists marvel at the range of produce. Well-known local hot sauce maker Garry Sommerville has attended three times now with his famous chili sauce Kaitaia Fire and associated products.

Phantom Billstickers has christened new sites for its sweet new Super and Max A0 poster frames – on Anzac Ave. in the heart of the Auckland Uni precinct.

Yesterday, M+AD ventured into dangerous territory, putting the boot (as you do) into our opposition at Tangible over falling revenues (and increasing online content) at three of its print titles. With this story, we ran three nice cover photos … and got one of them horribly wrong. Oh, the irony!

The TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards has issued its 2016 call for entries – this year’s theme is What’s Your Story?

The Public Relations Institute (PRINZ) has unveiled the 27 finalists for its 42nd annual industry awards – from a record 69 entries.

NZME is aligning all its rural radio, digital and print offerings under a single brand – The Country. The changes will see the Farming Show, fronted by Jamie Mackay, renamed The Country “to better reflect the wide scope of content from the show”.