DDB, Auckland Council, and organic waste collection business We Compost have devised stunt to promote ‘mindful composting’.

Colenso BBDO and BNZ have created GoodHome, an online engagement programme with an eDM and Tumblr blog designed to inform and inspire BNZ home loan customers on everything from interior styling, to planning their next renovation and how to spot the next hot suburb.

Auckland-based Australasian advertising photographer Stephen Langdon has joined the stable of directors at Sunday Punch, working with a number of top comedy and animation specialists in the Herne Bay-based production company that is establishing a reputation for humorous, performance-driven commercials.

Getty Images has unveiled its new global selection of highest-quality imagery, Getty Images Prestige, in Auckland today.

UK-based global researcher Fiona Blades visits Auckland next week to make presentations to agencies and research companies.

Barnes, Catmur & Friends have won August’s Newspaper Ad of the Month with their Boundary Road Brewery Beer Census ad.

Colenso BBDO and Proximity have further boosted their planning capabilities with the arrival of David McCallen who started this week as Planning Director (Engagement).

After a competitive creative pitch against four UK companies, Arch Hill-based boutique creative shop Brandspank has won the contract to create the opening title sequence for host broadcaster ITV of the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England.

In what is said to be a world first, Ogilvy & Mather placed an advertising message inside a music track – a stroke of genius that has won the agency the July ORCA.