DDB has won April’s Newspaper Ad of the Month with its BMW April Fools ad. “A refreshing April Fools ad that needed newspapers to work … and it definitely did that,” agreed the judges, acknowledging also the extension to the April Fools ad which ran the next day congratulating the winner.

Four NZ fashion designers will take to a different kind of catwalk in Parnell tonight to share insights with the ad industry into their competitive brand challenges. A few tickets are still available.

After a rigorous pitch process, Holden New Zealand has appointed Special Group to be their lead advertising agency partner. The incumbent was Ogilvy.

Early bird pricing for Digital Day Out ends at 5pm today (Friday 8 May) and the Marketing Association says there’s still good tickets left.

New Zealand agencies saw 16 entries achieve finalist status overnight at the New York Festivals International Advertising Awards competition. DDB led the way with seven finalists, Colenso has three, Clemenger and Y&R have two, followed Cirkus and MediaWorks with one apiece.

Entries have opened for the NZME Advertising Challenge, the comp that was launched at last week’s CAANZ Beacon Awards (at which NZME was a major sponsor).

New Zealand Media & Entertainment (NZME) was named NZ’s best newspaper printer in 2014, taking out the annual Newspaper Coldest Process prize over the weekend at the Pride In Print Awards at Wellington’s TSB Arena.

Yahoo New Zealand has today announced the nine winners of its 2015 Digital Stars programme – two are from NZ, with seven from Australia. The NZ winners are Ains Baguion (OMD Auckland) and Sarah Wilson (MediaCom Auckland).