Jono V Ben, a collaboration between Mediaworks, Freemans Bay agency Beat, and Frucor, has taken out a silver award for Best Sponsorship or Product Integration at the Branded Entertainment Festival last Thursday in Sydney.

FCB has chosen to salute Prime TV’s Downton Abbey – now in its final season – with a billboard featuring the lead characters in typically British deadpan mode.

NZ picked up five gongs – a gold, two silvers and two bronzes – at the London International Awards in Las Vegas. Four, including the gold, went to Colenso BBDO, while Wellington sibling Clemenger BBDO scored NZ’s only other metal – a silver.

The Adfest 2016 Lotus Awards has issued its call for entries. The 19th edition of this big Asian show will be held 16-19 March 2016 in Pattaya, Thailand (the theme is Creative Intelligence).

iSite Media is establishing five new sites for its AURA digital billboards – including expansion into Christchurch. This more than doubles the existing iSite portfolio, which now offers a combined reach of 330,000 people over a two-week period.

FCB has won October’s Newspaper Ad of the Month for its Prime TV Stadium NZ ad. Judges Paul White (AUT), Rod Prosser (JWT) and Danny Brown (Federation) said: “This is a great simple idea with good use of colour. You see the ad, and instantly understand it. Well done – the nation was watching.”

This year, MDS AdSchool team Jake O’Driscoll & Sylvia Humphries became Cannes Future Lions finalists, won the Visa Future of Payment competition, scored a Crowbar win – and now they’re off to Sydney on Friday to join 28 other lucky creatives from Australia at the D&AD New Blood Workshop – Brief to Broadcast.