The Cannes Lions organisation has announced the launch of the Glass Lion: The Lion for Change, an award with the support of LeanIn.Org which specifically recognises work that challenges gender bias and shatters stereotypical images of men and women which remain rooted in marketing messages.

The CAANZ Legal Seminar|When Social Media Goes Bad has touched a nerve – all 50 seats to the event at Simpson Greerson on Wednesday 4 March have been snapped up (at $85+gst per head).

GroupM media agency Mindshare has opened an office in New Zealand and appointed former Ogilvy NZ media chief Samantha Osbourne to run it.

The 2016 Harbourview Sculpture Trail is hoping ad agency creatives will submit  proposals to exhibit at the next showing on the Te Atatu peninsula on 4-20 March 2016.

What happens when you combine a handful of clever artists, buckets of Resene paint and five standard dog houses? Urbis Designday and SPCA Auckland set to find out and the result is a range of five state-of-the-art doggie dwellings, to be displayed at Urbis Designday on Saturday 21 March.

Freemans Bay indie Contagion created an eye-catching edible billboard for a Gull Biofuel display at the recent Splore music festival in Auckland’s Tapapakanga Regional Park.

The Ambient Group has completed its transformation of The Britomart Country Club into the Matua Britomart Cricket Club (MBCC), and has finalised the Legends of Cricket Series function hosting three cricketing greats: English cricket royalty Sir Ian Botham, NZ cricket royalty Sir Richard Hadlee, and Australian fast bowling tearaway Jeff (Thommo) Thompson.