Fair Go’s Best Ad of the Year went to an edited version of Shine’s Hyundai Getting Lost on TVNZ 1 on Monday night, bouncing back with a vengeance after being named Worst Ad of the Year just 12 months ago.

In yesterday’s coverage of Colenso and Special’s achievements in Australia’s B&T Awards, M+AD missed Special’s Australasian Branding & Design Agency of the Year win for an entry that spanned both the Auckland and Sydney offices.

The interactive Santa pages created by Ponsonby digital agency Method for the New Zealand Post website – where children can make and send a digital postcard to Santa – is proving a real hit with kids (and adults).

The Dentsu Aegis Network has launched an idea incubator programme to nurture innovative and creative thinking among the employees of its 20 agency brands.

Tauranga’s Bayfair Shopping Centre has won an award – in Sydney – for its nation-leading accessibility programme at the Shopping Centre Council of Australia Marketing Awards. Bayfair picked up A$2500 for its win, which they have donated to the Omanu Surf Life Saving Club.

Colenso BBDO’s Amnesty Unblocker won one of the three top prizes – Best Digital Campaign – at the B&T Awards held in the Sydney Town Hall over the weekend.

TBWA NZ has released its first local campaign for global Danish beer brand Carlsberg. The ads are currently running on radio and billboards.

Silverdale-based creative agency Blue Eye Deer – formed in December last year by four ex-Auckland agency types – has crafted a second campaign for SPCA Blue Tick, Feel good about high animal welfare.