iMedia Brand Summit NZ has confirmed star US creative Ruth Yomtoubian (director at AT&T Foundry San Francisco) as keynote speaker for this year’s summit, to be held in Nelson from Monday 19 June to Wednesday 21 June.

NZ’s Clemenger, Colenso, The Sweet Shop, Finch and DDB all have work through to the finals in Australia’s 38th AWARD Awards. Twelve categories were announced overnight, and there’s more to come.

Auckland PR shop Undertow Media is creating and executing a social media competition featuring 10 Instagrammers for Choice Hotels NZ.

Dutch marketing & PR agency Typhoon Hospitality is expanding its business to Asia Pacific by launching an Auckland branch, and teaming up with local agency Lily & Louis PR.

NZME Vision, NZME’s video production arm, has partnered with aged care facility operator Radius Care and released a VR video it claims “has captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people across New Zealand”.

The Clemenger Group New Zealand has merged the group’s marketing services companies in Wellington to form a ‘new age’ agency out of Clemenger BBDO, Touchcast and Proximity. The combined shop will be known as Clemenger BBDO/Touchcast.

Reebok chose an 81-year-old man to help launch the rebirth of the brand in China. The campaign is the first original creative work to launch in the country in over a decade based on the brand’s global foundation of Be More Human.

Over 1200 chauffeured guests descended on 18 Auckland design venues (in Ponsonby, Newmarket, Parnell and Eden Terrace) to sample the city’s most beautiful products at Urbis Designday over the weekend.

The NZ Marketing Association has brought six fresh faces to its 2017 board and regional committees, following it’s GM last week.