The NZ Radio Awards organisation has amended one category for the upcoming awards event in May. The Best Producer category has been changed to allow ‘individuals or teams’ to enter.

On court, Novak Djokovic is some tennis player – sadly, on screen his performances are woeful. Proof of this can be seen in Djokovic’s laughable attempts to act the part of renowned ’80s tennis brat John McInroe for a good cause – World Vision.

DDB NZ & Australia ceo Marty O’Halloran says his agency’s plans to cut back on expensive global awards show entries will also extend to some NZ awards events.

DDB NZ & Australia chairman/ceo Marty O’Halloran says DDB offices in Auckland and Sydney will save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by cutting back its entries to global awards shows.

With just 200 days until the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Volkswagen New Zealand has reaffirmed its long-standing partnership with the New Zealand Olympic Committee.

Since rebranding from NZ Sponsorship Agency to Spur in 2014, the Auckland-based boutique sponsorship and brand experience agency has continued to grow, with the addition of inhouse content production and studio capability.

Largest-ever free-to-air New Zealand broadcast deal for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, to be held on Australia’s Gold Coast. Globally, the games broadcasts are expected to reach over 1 billion sports fans.

2016 is kicking off with a plethora of significant local & offshore awards shows and industry seminars – including the looming Axis and One Show deadlines, a CAANZ employment law seminar, a Beacons entry-writing workshop, and the Marketing Association’s NZDM Awards. Here’s a summary …

Ryan Bonnici, APAC marketing director of Ogilvy Sydney client Hubspot (a global inbound marketing company), tackles on behalf of M+AD readers one of our great everyday problems – crappy website design and management. “Is your site reaching its full potential?” he asks … 

On the left is the new MediaWorks logo, courtesy of Mark Weldon and Auckland agency OneDesign. On the right is the logo of Australia’s ABC.