A further four shortlists – in Outdoor, Media, PR and Creative Effectiveness – have been announced overnight at the Cannes Lions Festival. On Day 2, Colenso BBDO again topped the shortlists leaderboard – but this time it was no whitewash, with FCB, DDB and Y&R all doing well.

NZME has parted company with Pagemakers Ltd who, since 2007, have handled sub-editing requirements on contract for the NZ Herald, and all NZME regional papers.

Whybin\TBWA and Nissan are celebrating the launch of the all-new Nissan NP300 Navara with an interactive game that brings to life the features of the 2015 Navara.

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.

Indie agencies Sugar&Partners and MBM have produced their first work for PwC since winning the business in a pitch for the launch of PwC’s  new digital consulting arm.

NZME has tapped Weta digital genius Prof Mark Sagar to headline the first edition of PwC Herald Talks, a new business event series aimed at “encouraging business thought leaders to come together and share knowledge, insight and strategies, to grow and diversify business in New Zealand”.

Two digital creatives have pooled their talents to set up Creative Connect, a localised online portfolio creation platform that enables creatives to showcase their work and skillset with ease (no coding necessary.) It launched at the end of this month.

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.