Colenso all over early results from Cannes

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The Cannes Lions Festival has overnight unveiled the shortlists for four categories – Direct, Press, Promo & Activation, and Mobile. There’s NZ finalists in all four – in a combined list utterly dominated by Colenso BBDO. Entries from Y&R (four), DDB (two), Special Group (three) and FCB (two) also made a respectable showing.

The write stuff

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Effies convenor of judges Lew Bentley returns again this year to run another of his popular CAANZ Effies entry writing mid-morning workshop this year.

Arrivals & Departures: The Herald taps ODT ed

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NZME has turned to one of New Zealand’s journalism’s most respected newsroom leaders to take over the NZ Herald editor’s role vacated by Shayne Curry, who has moved to an expanded editorial role across all Herald brands (as acting managing editor, a position previously held by Tim Murphy). The new man in the weekday Herald editor’s chair is former Otago Daily Times editor Murray Kirkness.

Facebook updates Ads Manager

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Facebook has commenced rolling out updated versions of Ads Manager and Power Editor. Both tools now come with simplified layouts and new features, designed to enable advertisers to get more value with less effort on each campaign.