Saatchi & Saatchi and Clemenger BBDO Wellington have each picked up Gold Lions in the Cyber category overnight at Cannes. And Colenso BBDO and Y&R both scored Bronze Lions.

Y&R won NZ’s only Lion – a Bronze for Brake Living Memories – in the Creative Data category last night.

New Zealand is enjoying unusually rare success at Cannes, scoring 46 Lions so far (three Grand Prix, 13 Golds, 16 Silvers, and 15 Bronze Lions) and easily outpointing our pals across the Ditch.

Grey Singapore’s I Sea app to save refugees from drowning, which Aussie site Mumbrella says was called out as a fake by technology experts yesterday, has been removed from the Apple Store and criticised by the client for not working, but has been awarded at the Cannes Lions earlier this week.

Effies 2016 convenor of judges Lew Bentley will lead The Winning Effie Formula entry-writing workshop at AUT Auckland next week – on Thursday 30 June.

iHeartRadio is venturing into the concert arena again, signing award-winning American pop power group Fifth Harmony to perform a free live concert on Friday 15 July at the Auckland Town Hall’s Concert Chamber.

Global youth media company Vice has signed a deal with Sky TV to bring its new “critically acclaimed” 24-hour channel Viceland to New Zealand later this year.

Colenso BBDO has won the Outdoor Grand Prix overnight in Cannes, capping a big 24 hours for New Zealand that included three Outdoor Gold Lions, five Silvers and five Bronzes.

Y&R continued up its prizewinning path at Cannes last night, scoring a Silver Lion and a Bronze Lion in the Design category.