Entries to this month’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity have reached record numbers, with 40,133 entries received across Cannes Lions (21-27 June), Lions Health (19-20 June) and Lions Innovation (25-26 June).

Sovereign is giving Kiwis the opportunity to receive free life insurance through Facebook in a new campaign designed to address the issue of under-insurance in New Zealand.

The London International Awards (LIA) have named DDB NZ chief creative officer Damon Stapleton to the Print/Poster/Billboard jury at this year’s festival, again being held in Las Vegas (October 1-10).

Star NZ creative director team Lisa Fedyszyn & Jonathan McMahon, who left Whybin\TBWA Auckland in February, have finally resurfaced in one of the best creative ad roles in the world – as associate creative directors at Droga5 New York, according to a report in Campaign Brief.

New Zealand companies will be able to connect to the cloud at a lower cost with no long-term contracts following yesterday’s launch of Vector Cloud Link.

Tickets are still available for the Marketing Association’s full-day Digital Day Out conference, to be held at Sky City this coming Tuesday (16 June).

Clemenger BBDO Wellington has won May’s Newspaper Ad of the Month with their NZTA Community Speedo ad. The judges agreed that “the placement of the ad in The Dominion Post was so big and bold, that it defied any reader not to stop and take in the urgency of its message”.

Colenso BBDO senior art director Brett Colliver will lead AWARD School Auckland’s 12-week part time course in July. The 2015 course has now released the application brief for NZ creatives (scroll down for details).