After nearly five years broadcasting on Sky Channel 017, TVNZ Heartland will finish up in seven weeks – on Sunday 31 May.

Billboard/bus advertising company Go Media celebrated its first birthday last week on a floating nightclub out on the Hauraki Gulf. “It was one of the best local media vendor parties yet,” according to a Visitor from Hawkes Bay.

The Clio Awards has lured The One Club managing director Emily Isovitsch to the role of Clio executive director, replacing Nicole Purcell, who is now the president of Clio. Both big awards shows are based in New York City, and both celebrate advertising & design creativity.

The youth-oriented New York Festivals Torch Awards has confirmed an earlier M+AD report (in February) that former Whybin\TBWA Auckland CD Lisa Fedyszyn will be one of just eight judges for this year’s awards. Fedyszyn – already a judge at The NY Festivals main competition as well as the London International Awards – will work alongside legendary admen like JWT’s Matt Eastwood on the Torch jury.

Auckland-based Film Construction director Chris Sisarich tomorrow opens his multi-sensory exhibition of photography, video and sound in Sydney.

The New Zealand Geographic Archive, including every issue ever published, has now connected New Zealand’s 668,000 students to the service. The deal was struck with the Ministry of Education – on the strength of the archive already available since 2013 to print subscribers and public libraries – and facilitated by the EPIC Consortium, a sort of Pharmac for electronic resources.