The team at OMD Auckland spent yesterday giving back to the community through the agency’s annual Do Good Day. A group of 70 staff volunteered their time to help paint Blockhouse Bay’s Glenavon School, landscape its gardens and create porcelain wall mosaics.

Saatchi & Saatchi and the Electoral Commission have launched a campaign to answer the large number of non-voters who say they don’t feel like their vote is worth anything.

Adshel has created a new trade campaign that aims to entice ad people to take part in a zany 12-question quiz about their love of advertising.

Barnes Catmur & Friends is the third most effective independent agency in the world, according to the 2014 Effie Effectiveness Index, just out.

FCB has imagined up a Favourite Child Detector digital program – to help sell the launch of US mockumentary-style sitcom Modern Family on Prime TV.

The NZ billboard sector, which has continually struggled to come up with affordable in-depth viewer reasearch, has introduced what it calls “a single currency” measurement system – Daily Traffic Visuals – to tackle the problem.

NZ Geographic publisher Kōwhai Media has repackaged and reinvigorated Mana magazine, and built a supporting website and app which streams stories from Mana and other Māori media outlets, bringing news and views with a Māori voice to a new digital channel.