Bob Dylan has won his ultimate accolade – the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. The announcement came from the Swedish Academy at mid-morning NZ time today.

Auckland-based digital advertising sales company Ad2one has unveiled a partnership with National Geographic to manage ad sales for nationalgeographic.com and nationalgeographic.com.au’s New Zealand audience.

Auckland & New York-based creative & technology company Rush Digital has taken out the top prize for their category at Visa’s Everywhere Initiative in Sydney, which challenges New Zealand and Australian start-ups to bring new ideas to payments.

Victoria Ransom who runs media marketing software company Wildfire Interactive was last night named winner of the Business category at the NEXT Woman of the Year Awards held in Auckland (in association with online jewellery store Pandora).

Over the road, on the same night in the same city as the Woman of the Year Awards (see previous story), Fairfax Media were unveiling their 2016 Women of Influence Awards. The Supreme Winner was won by Helen Robinson, co-founder/executive director for Organic Initiative (Oi).

Y&R NZ’s celebrated Burger King McWhopper campaign – already a Grand Prix winner at Cannes, a Grand Cleo winner in NYC, two Grand Prix at the Spikes Asia, and Best in Show at D&AD – is the only Kiwi entrant through to the shortlist of London International Awards Print, Poster & Billboard category.

Bauer Media has launched a new free weekly magazine, Paperboy. It will have a distribution of 100,000 and will be targeted at a broad “optimistic” Auckland readership.

Registrations close tomorrow (Friday) for APN Outdoor’s Pixel361° creative showdown, which aims to boost fundraising efforts for the Child Cancer Foundation.