Special Group has crafted a new Freedom Farms campaign to build awareness of ethical food supplier’s range of humanely farmed produce.

The Epica Creative Awards has received just one entry – from Clemenger BBDO Wellington – for its newly minted NZ Agency of the Year competition.

Blackmores NZ marketers Maria Johnston and Kylie Jillings won the Supreme Award at Friday night’s New Zealand Self-Medication Industry Association Marketing Awards 2016 in Auckland for the company’s Be a Well-Being brand campaign.

The Marketing Association has extended the deadline for the 2016 NZDM Awards until 5pm on Monday 31 October. A late fee will apply.

Colenso BBDO’s DB Brewtroleum campaign capped off its stellar year at the Effies at the Langham Auckland last night, taking out the Grand Effie as well as fistfuls of Gold/Silver/Bronze Effies.

Australia-based Campaign Brief has issued its call for entries for its 2017 Australia & NZ Agency of the Year competitions, as well as the magazine’s annual Hot & Cold Creativity/Billings index.

Auckland is the fourth most creative city in the world, according to the latest Cannes Lions Global Creativity Report, a summary of which was released overnight, which described NZ’s dramatic rise as “staggering”. Asian-Pacific cities have also raised their rankings.

Kiwi kids’ media consumption has increased over the past year, with their total spending power rising to $273 million annually, according to a Cartoon Network survey.

The Advertising Standards Authority has recommended tighter restrictions in the Children’s Code for Advertising Food and the Code for Advertising to Children – and the findings have been endorsed by the NZ Food & Grocery Council.