Tui’s Catch a Million campaign out of Saatchi & Saatchi, ApolloNation and SparkPHD, has been shortlisted twice in The London International Awards’ Non-Traditional shortlist.

Apple and Google maintain their #1 and #2 positions and each exceed USD $100 billion in brand value; Huawei makes Best Global Brands history as the first Chinese brand to enter the report – and Interbrand NZ says at least two Kiwi brands are not far away from featuring in the global report.

Australia is Christchurch’s largest holiday arrivals market, but despite good knowledge of the city itself, familiarity with the Canterbury region is extremely low.

Saatchi & Saatchi, with ApolloNation and Spark PHD, shared the top prize – the Grand Effie – at last night’s Effie Awards at the Langham Auckland. The other three major awards went to: DB Breweries (Most Effective Client), and FCB, which won two (Most Effective Agency and Hardest Challenge).

Facebook has launched FBIQ, a new online resource to help marketers understand people across generations, geographies, devices and time through insights and data analysis. 

It’s still not clear how much – if any – of the $10,000 cash prize from last week’s Newspaper Advertising Awards will find its way into the hands of the creative team who worked on the ad. The problem for DDB, which won the award, is that its creative team at the time – art director Kevin Bachtiar and copywriter Sasha Arandelovic – have since left DDB and joined Special Group.

TV ONE Breakfast hosts Rawdon Christie and Ali Pugh will host tonight’s 2014 Effie Awards at the Langham Auckland. All 430 tickets have been sold – the doors to the hotel’s The Great Room will open for pre-dinner drinks from 6.30pm, and the show starts at 7.30pm.