The celebrated SXSW festival – which began in Austin, Texas to celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries – is reaching out to NZ and Australia.

Spark has filed notice of its intention to make a full takeover offer for 100% of the fully paid ordinary shares in TeamTalk Limited at an offer price of 80 cents per share.

NZ agencies Y&R and Colenso BBDO are again making headlines offshore with two of our best ads from last year. This time the focus comes from UK’s The Gunn Report 2016– just out overnight.

D&AD London has engaged six creative superstars as headline speakers for the D&AD Festival in April. The list features LA-based Kiwi radio DJ Zane Lowe (son of Radio Hauraki co-founder Derek Lowe).

Brisbane radio station Hot 91 appeared to get the context confused when they posted a very amusing video of Roger Federer & Rafael Nadal trying to shoot an ad for a charity tennis match while they were – allegedly – stoned on helium.

The Asia-Pacific Tambuli Awards, a global competition which honours effective advertising for good, is accepting entries – and is now inviting NZ agencies to enter work.