This weekend, CAANZ will welcome its international Effie judge Merry Baskin – from Baskinshark.com in the UK – who is visiting NZ for the next couple of weeks.

Nick Rogers and his partner Rosie Broughton have taken over the responsibility of running the Tui Brewery Experience at Mangatainoka, and Monteith’s Brewery Experience in Greymouth. The dynamic duo are now responsible for overseeing the renowned brewery tours, bar and café as well as functions and events.

New York, NY – October 5, 2016: New York Festivals International Advertising Awards – which reward creative excellence in advertising & marketing communications – has issued its call for entries for the 2017 competition.

Premium content discovery platform Outbrain has launched its proprietary training and certification programme – called Outbrain Academy – in New Zealand, following its May 2016 debut in Australia.

The Epica Creative Awards has extended the deadline for this year’s call for entries – and hinted it may establish a new New Zealand Advertising Agency of Year award.

Kiwi animation legend Brent Chambers, the founder of Flux Animation, died in Auckland at the weekend after suffering a sudden heart attack. He was just 54.

Spark has extended the roles it shares with Clemenger Group by appointing retail agency .99 win as the lead creative agency for Spark Digital.

“Dear Ed: The headline statement that DDB was bypassed for this work is incorrect and it would be great if you could amend it,” writes DDB NZ ceo Justin Mowday.

Getting Aucklanders involved in the local body elections has always been a challenge, with an average voter turnout of around 35% in previous years. So when Auckland Council briefed their digital agency, Goodfolk, on the design and production of a website to help change this, everyone knew it would be a challenging but highly rewarding project.