Clemenger-owned NZ digital agency Touchcast has appointed Luke Pittar to its Auckland office as design director. Pittar is ex Saatchi & Saatchi Design Worldwide in Auckland, where he has worked on P&G, Illy Coffee, Lexus, ASB, Telecom, KPMG and Air New Zealand.

The new, fully responsive website for creative talent agency The Pond, redesigned for iPad and iPhone, went live on 1 February and visitor numbers have jumped rapidly since.

The smell of homemade cooking will drift through key New Zealand out-of-home sites as part of a new campaign by oOh! Media for TVNZ’s new season of My Kitchen Rules Australia. 

APN Outdoor NZ is set to take part in the largest research study of its kind ever carried out within the outdoor industry in Australia and New Zealand.

BBC Worldwide has promoted its Sydney-based vice president for NZ & Australian ad sales Alistair McEwan to director of advertising sales and brand partnerships.

UK-based independent advertising effectiveness consultant Peter Field returns to NZ next month to conduct a half-day seminar for CAANZ on how to increase ROI and the chances of business success.

Award-winning director Tim Bullock has announced his departure from Prodigy and plans to venture solo into the Australasian market, according to a report in Campaign Brief Australia.

After six years with the DDB Group-owned brand consultancy Interbrand, MD James Bickford has resigned. He’s already left the agency, en route to a new gig in Singapore. Exactly what the job is in Singapore is unclear – and the NZ agency reckons it doesn’t know.

Hazel Phillips, editor at Tangible Media’s Idealog magazine since 2011, has quit to join Fonterra’s PR consultancy, Baldwin Boyle Group.

Whybin\TBWA chief creative officer Toby Talbot has handed in his cards after only one year in the job, and is to return to the DDB fold at DDB Sydney in the same CCO role.