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Air NZ’s new surf-themed safety video is already a global hit, just days after it was unleashed on the web. But who knows what the value is of the unprecedented two full pages of A-section coverage it received in yesterday’s NZ Herald?

Spark PR & Activate have brought summer back to Auckland, working with Rekorderlig Cider to open the city’s only Swedish bar, Kapell on Ponsonby Road.

And now the moment we’ve all been waiting for – the final installment of the Radio Hauraki Hiace Port-a-Palace project, produced and managed by Saatchi & Saatchi.

Readers will already have seen the distressing TVC of a woman trapped in a crashed car, shot by The Sweet Shop for DDB’s Westpac Chopper Appeal Month campaign. Now they can see DDB and Starcom’s follow-up Facebook videos – including the finale (above).

Readers will be relieved to hear that work is progressing nicely on the Hauraki Breakfast Hiace Port-a-Palace campaign.

Wellington web-based video strategy & production company Stem Creative has made its debut into original content with seven 6-10 minute episodes of a new comedy web series, Agency – shot with help from “bold corporate sponsors” and a strong crowdfunding response.

Baggage Carousel One at Auckland Airport was recently transformed into a giant interactive game by PHD Group and Gold Coast Tourism, with one lucky Air New Zealand flight experiencing a “New Zealand first” with the Lucky Luggage campaign.

Phantom Billstickers’ Poetry on Posters Project has dedicated its new postcard project to the work of Cliff Fell, David Merritt, Ben Brown, Alice Anderson, Frankie McMillan, Jefferey Paparoa Holman, Becky Woodall and David Eggleton.

Anecdotally, there’s been a surge of Jeremy Wells fans checking out their object of desire getting his gear off for Meridian and Barnes, Catmur & Friends.

Take a sharp combo of scripts, casting, production and editing, bound together with soulful blues tracks written especially for the TVC – and you have Clemenger BBDO’s TV work for Fly Buys. The focus of the new campaign is the “free stuff”  rewards members can get with Fly Buys.