The NZ Film & Video Technicians Guild is changing its name to the Screen Industry Guild, following an endorsement from 89.3% of the 149 votes cast by a third of all NZ guild members in online poll.

For 10 days from Friday 21 April to Sunday 30 April, some 25,000 athletes from around the globe will descend upon Auckland to compete in the 2017 World Masters Games, and enjoy all Auckland has to offer. That’s a lot of people! Barfoot & Thompson is the presenting sponsor and is celebrating the event coming to the city in a campaign from Big Communications.

Just four days to go to the creative event of the year (before the other creative event of the year). CAANZ holds its pre-Axis Q+A, with Peter Vegas in the chair, this Thursday evening at the Pt Chev RSA. The theme this year is Nothing Beats Winning at Your Local.

The Herald on Sunday and the Otago Daily Times stand out in the latest Nielsen National Newspaper Readership Survey as the only daily or weekly newspapers to post an increase in readership.

BBDO shops Colenso (NZ) and Clemenger (Melbourne) have the most finalists going into the APAC Effies award show in Singapore on Friday 21 April.

Indie agencies sharply lifted their profile at last week’s NZDM Awards, picking up a total of 30 awards, to sit nicely alongside the bigger agencies’ score of 58.

The rather gorgeous rebuild of TVNZ headquarters in Auckland is covered in some detail – with some fine images from photographer Patrick Reynolds – in the latest issue of AGM Publishing’s Architecture Now.