The Marketing Association has announced its finalists for the 2015 TVNZ NZ Marketing Awards. With Round 1 judging complete, 116 entries make up list.

New Zealand, with a total of 20 Lions, finished last week’s Cannes Ad Festival ranked at #12 in the world.

MDS AdSchool has answered a global callup on behalf of its female Lions-winning creatives by sending their images and CVs to a new website set up by two UK female creatives.

TVNZ has called for nominations for the 2016 New Zealander of the Year Awards, getting the message out via a refreshed visual identity, and a new TVC.

The Midas Awards, which honour the world’s best financial advertising, has issued its 2015 call for entries. New categories this year include Effectiveness and Recruiting.

New Zealand Rugby League has teamed with ACC and BKA-Digital Outfitters to launch a new-look website that promotes the “Fundamentals programme for safe and rewarding participation in our game”.

Tonight DDB ceo Justin Mowday will sleep out on the mean streets of Auckland to help raise money for those who are homeless and sleep out every night.

NZ’s best and worst documents and web pages are about to get the treatment from Consumer NZ, which is sponsoring these two categories at the annual Plain English Awards.

SparkPHD’s Kim Gribble has won the second week of APN Outdoor’s Boards competition, a four-week long campaign programme to promote their premium network of large format, roadside billboards. Pete McRae from IKON and Rachel Stewart from OMD Auckland also picked up prizes.