The Lego Group is a privately held 68-yearold multibillion-dollar global toy brick company based in Billund, Denmark. In 2015, Lego replaced Ferrari as Brand Finance’s world’s most powerful brand. Lego last year turned over NZ$4.2 billion, and spent millions – maybe hundreds of millions – globally on advertising, marketing and PR.

QMS has unveiled one of its most spectacular landmark digital billboards yet – a 14-metre high monster that towers over Auckland’s QE2 Square, New Zealand’s busiest pedestrian precinct.

Auckland-based public relations consultancy Wright Communications is celebrating a decade in business by pitting its collective general knowledge against that of its clients and suppliers at a tongue-in-cheek quiz night* next week.

justONE, with 15 unique campaigns, leads the list of finalists unveiled this morning for the NZDM Awards. Second is Colenso BBDO/Proximity (with nine), FCB and Chemistry Interaction (both with seven), and Young + Shand with five.

Auckland full-service agencies Terabyte and The Creative Shop have “joined forces” under the Terabyte banner, with The Creative Shop moving into the Terabyte offices in York St Parnell.

Auckland-based design company Alt Group has taken home a top category honour at the AGDA Awards in Adelaide. The AGDA Awards recognise and document the best communication design work happening in Australia and New Zealand at any given time.

Auckland, 30 November – Getty Images has today unveiled to its highly anticipated visual trend forecast. The ground-breaking forecast sets out the macro and micro trends that will influence design, advertising and brand communications throughout 2017 and predicts the social and cultural visual language that consumers will be most responsive to in the years to come.