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Auckland’s Social Media Club (#smcakl) kicks off its first get-together of 2015 next week (Wednesday 18 February) from 6 pm to 8pm @ Vodafone HQ, 20 Viaduct Harbour Avenue – and all M+AD readers are invited.

Whybin\TBWA CD Lisa Fedyszyn is already making a strong impression in her first stint as an executive juror on the New York Festivals Awards. “We’re so excited that she is on board to judge the shortlisted entries, and that she will also lend her creative insights to our young creatives competition, the Torch Awards,” NYF PR director Gayle Seminara Mandel told M+AD this morning.

This month’s Ad of the Month Agency League judges were kept busy judging ads from both December and January with two agencies receiving points on the Agency League table. 

OMD has introduced the ad business to the latest successful grads from its annual graduate recruitment programme which sees the agency take on around six graduates every year in an internship capacity.

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CAANZ is on a search for new recruits after it farewelled executive board members Derek Lindsay and Andrew Holt, both moving on to new adventures this year.

Following a competitive pitch the Vodafone Warriors have appointed Special Group to their advertising business. It is not know if the incumbent (Auckland agency &some) was involved in the pitch.