Talent & voice agency Auckland Actors has linked with emerging music industry player The Platform to provide a one-stop shop for music and talent. Auckland Actors retains its identity and name, as does The Platform. (Just sleeping together, you might say.)

Tip Top has enlisted the help of Mango Communications to kick off their 80th birthday celebrations before the above-the-line campaign begins. The brief was to create a fun, unique staff engagement activity that could be leveraged through PR and social media. “The answer?,” says Mango GM Sean Brown. “A staff photo with a difference.”

Yahoo! New Zealand is to rebrand as Yahoo Platforms NZ, reflecting its offering in native and programmatic advertising.

The New York Festivals organisation has issued its entry call for the 2017 Torch Awards, which recognise young creatives 18-27.

OMD, Colenso BBDO, Proximity, FCB, DDB, MediaCom, Vizeum, PHD, MBM, iProspect, Eleven, Ogilvy are the NZ agencies selected for the shortlist at the Campaign Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year Awards.

A Caribbean-born advertising & production exponent has settled in Auckland where she is managing the upcoming premiere of a Bollywood *movie she’s been working on with 100 Unitec students and Kiwi filmmaker Athina Tsoulis. Alison Smith’s real goal, however, is to land a job with a NZ ad agency.

All teams who entered APN Outdoor’s Pixel361 competition are urged to attend the awards finals and prizegiving night this Thursday 17 November at Seafarers Westhaven.

DDB has created a pop-up art gallery to make art accessible to customers across the country this week, and giving talented New Zealand artists mass market exposure by broadcasting their work into 700,000+ homes.

AdFest has issued its entry call for the 2017 Lotus Awards – a four-day event to be held in Pattaya, Thailand, on Friday 20 January. The theme is 20 Years of Diversity.