Entrants for the 2015 Effies have barely two weeks to file their submissions. The first deadline is 4pm on Tuesday 4 August, and the late deadline (penalty payment required) comes just two days later – on Thursday 6 August at 4pm.

oOh!media is to build New Zealand’s first full-motion digital banner, capable of displaying full motion creative, as part of its contract to create an advanced digital advertising network for Auckland’s newest large retail destination, the NorthWest Shopping Centre.

The majority of NZ agency clients say their digital budgets had increased this year, with most of these reporting budget growth of more than 20% – despite their overall adspend remaining static, according to new research from Econsultancy, commissioned by marketing software provider Marketo.

Since March of this year K-Rd indie Sugar&Partners has been part of a wider group of Aucklanders successfully protesting against the 100m expansions of the Ports of Auckland into the Waitamata Harbour.

Ogilvy & Mather has finally found a replacement for ECD Angus Hennah, who left the agency in November 2014 before joining Special Group as CD in May this year. The new ECD in Stanley St is a real catch – internationally awarded FCB creative Regan Grafton, who takes up the reins in mid-September. 

As widely predicted, the Radio Broadcasters Association has sidelined TNS and announced a new deal with the Australian arm of Europe-based researcher GfK to be the new provider for the commercial radio survey from 2016.