Cycling is the focus for Clemenger BBDO’s newest campaign for the NZ Transport Agency. Feel More, Ride More is the first stage of an ambitious three-year programme aiming to get 10 million more trips made by bike by 2019.

Downtown Auckland full service digital agency Union Digital has expanded its capability and global reach by joining forces with fellow WPP AUNZ digital agency, Melbourne-headquarted DT, the region’s largest creative technology group.

Sydney-based publisher Fairfax Media says its New Zealand unit’s revenue and earnings fell in the first half on the back of weakness in print advertising revenue, according to a report in NBR Online.

Three movies in which Transtasman commercials producer Curious Film played a significant role – Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Turbo Kid and Born to Dance – picked up seven prizes at the New Zealand Film Awards in Auckland earlier this week.

BREAKING NEWS: The NZ Commerce Commission has this morning declined the proposed merger of Vodafone NZ with Sky Network Television, drawing an immediate – but restrained – response from both parties.

With the preliminary round of judging completed at the end of last week, CAANZ have today released the finalists who will all compete to put a new Axis trophy in the cabinet. 

Some of New Zealand’s most expensive homes are located on its streets and clifftops. The 250,000 people who live there spend millions of dollars each day. However, crossing the Harbour Bridge means entering a zone where outdoor advertising is a rarity.

Hot on the heels of Colenso’s latest Gunn Report ranking as the #2 most creative agency in the world, the BBDO agency has taken out Campaign Brief Australia’s NZ Agency of the Year, for a record eighth time.

Colenso has turned its attention to a new billboard campaign for DB Breweries – promoting a bottle recycling device “to save NZ beaches”.