New York, NY – January 17: New York Festivals Torch Awards, a unique creative competition for young creatives 18-27 years old, has opened for entries, and partnered with Today, I’m Brave, a registered nonprofit, whose dynamic mission celebrates people performing Brave acts every day and everywhere.

Adshel has introduced its new ethnicity targeting initiative, using NZ Census data, enhanced with Roy Morgan’s Single Source data, to identify audiences where they live and work.

VeNA announces exclusive partnership with iClick Interactive, to provide New Zealand advertisers with access to Chinese audiences.

Phantom Billstickers’ publishing phenomenon Café Reader, the free print title published four times a year and widely distributed around bars and coffee shops, is back.

Pride In Print is returning to the Garden City this year, with Wigram’s Air Force Museum of New Zealand to host the print industry’s gala event on Friday May 12.

NEW YORK: The legal cannabis market in the US and Canada was worth US$6.7bn in 2016 – and continues to grow rapidly with adspend following a similar trajectory.

Just three weeks till entries close for Axis 2017 – at 4pm on Tuesday 24 January. This year’s awards show will be held at the Viaduct Events Centre on Thursday 16 March.

CAANZ has issued its entry documents for this year’s Beacons Awards (formerly the Media Awards).

Big brand budgets and quadrennial events such as the Olympics, European Football Championship and US Presidential Election drove 2016’s global advertising revenue growth to US$532 billion (NZ$746), according to the Global Advertising Trends report from IHS Technology’s Advertising Intelligence Service.