UK ad news site Warc has conscripted two senior Kiwi adpeople to sit on the international jury for the Content Strategy category at the upcoming Warc Awards in London.

Air New Zealand has finally brought to an end the pitch process for its media account by appointing the Dentsu Aegis Network agencies across Australia & NZ. DAN’s Carat will handle the NZ business, while DAN’s Vizeum will do it across the ditch.

Urbis Designday, New Zealand’s premier public design event and a celebration of original thinking, serves up its sensory feast on Saturday week (25 March).

New Axis programmes – designed for CAANZ by Ogilvy Auckland – will catch the eye of the 800 guests taking their tables at tonight’s big Axis Show at the Viaduct Events Centre.

OMD Auckland’s MD of specialist businesses Jane Stanley has made the shortlist of Campaign Asia-Pacific’s inaugural Women Leading Change Awards in Hong Kong next week. Stanley told M+AD this morning that she’s not sure if she can attend.

London, 16 March. – Courtesy of The Beautiful Meme, the D&AD Festival 2017 creative was unveiled today, with an explosion of colours, textures and shapes representing the ever-shifting nature of the category, thinking and work.

King St Hamilton has been appointed as media agency by Beaurepaires after a credentials pitch in December. The account was previously held by Dynamo, Auckland.

Auckland agency Mr Smith has sold the company to global network Havas, with founding partners John O’Leary & Ben Handy staying on to head the new shop – now known as Havas NZ.

Award-winning Sydney creative collective The Glue Society is expanding to New Zealand, setting up in Wellington with Pete Baker at the helm.