The Tasman Global Access Cable – an under-sea cable that will provide a huge boost to NZ’s international broadband connectivity – is now in the final stages of construction, with the specialised undersea cable ship Ile de Re heading towards New Zealand shores.

More famous for pasting posters on the nation’s walls than publishing zines, Phantom Billstickers is celebrating the 11th edition of its quarterly ‘street arts’ publication, The Phantom Billstickers Café Reader.

Red Bull has teamed up with global app Shazam to kick-start an activation to celebrate the launch of Red Bull’s latest Kiwi-Apple flavour.

FCB has asked us to clarify information they provided which led to a story we ran in August about the launch of Mitre 10’s On Demand video service.

M+AD is still saving up to buy the full NBR daily news feed – so the best we can do is offer you this enticing preview from the newspaper’s free headline service: “A2’s major Australian competitor, Bellamy’s, doesn’t use Australian milk.

M+AD went a step too far when we proclaimed – wrongly – that Colenso BBDO’s Volkswagen Reduce Speed Dial work was a finalist in the upcoming Spikes Asia Awards in Singapore. The creative is already a Gold winner (in May this year) at New York’s The One Show, but was not entered in this year’s Spikes.

Oh dear, could this really be the end of the Big Mac?, asks Australia’s B&T magazine, citing a recent study of McDonald’s franchisees in the US.

Dave Walden would turn in his grave. TBWA has quietly deleted Aussie Scott Whybin’s name from the title of the agency group he formed in NZ and Australia 21 years ago.

The Cannes Lions organisation has announced the donation of €72,819 (NZ$111,548) to gender equality charities worldwide – money raised through its Glass Lion: the Lion for Change – which recognises outstanding creative work that shatters gender stereotypes.