Colenso BBDO, DDB Group, FCB, Y&R have all recorded multiple shortlist successes as the Spikes Asia – which kicks off in Singapore today – starts releasing most of its category shortlists. Ogilvy and MediaCom also scored, as did film companies Exit, Curious and Ruskin.

Next month, rehydrating flight drink 1Above will launch a new brand expression/visual identity which has been crafted with New York-based global branding and design agency, Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR). 

Fashion-conscious marketers will be pleased to learn that, with the impending launch of its new collection, the French brand of python handbags and small leather goods, Isabelle Farrugia, has entrusted its communication to the independent French advertising agency Gloryparis.

bcg2 has been appointed as creative agency for New Zealand Opera, and the Auckland indie’s first role was setting up the digital, radio and print creative for the September 2016 season of Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

The Tasman Global Access Cable – an under-sea cable that will provide a huge boost to NZ’s international broadband connectivity – is now in the final stages of construction, with the specialised undersea cable ship Ile de Re heading towards New Zealand shores.

More famous for pasting posters on the nation’s walls than publishing zines, Phantom Billstickers is celebrating the 11th edition of its quarterly ‘street arts’ publication, The Phantom Billstickers Café Reader.

Red Bull has teamed up with global app Shazam to kick-start an activation to celebrate the launch of Red Bull’s latest Kiwi-Apple flavour.

FCB has asked us to clarify information they provided which led to a story we ran in August about the launch of Mitre 10’s On Demand video service.

M+AD is still saving up to buy the full NBR daily news feed – so the best we can do is offer you this enticing preview from the newspaper’s free headline service: “A2’s major Australian competitor, Bellamy’s, doesn’t use Australian milk.