Contagion has won the Harcourts full-service advertising business – including strategy, creative, media, digital and social – in a pitch against unknown agencies.

Tickets are still available for tomorrow’s (Wednesday 27 May) CAANZ PREScom Champion Speaker Series, a breakfast event that aims to deliver “winning formulas for ensuring your brand is seen and heard – exploring world-class sponsorships and stunts”.

IAB NZ Standards & Guidelines Council has embarked on a project to produce best practice guidelines for native advertising in NZ.

FCB and Vodafone have made what may well turn out to be an inspired choice to replace another inspirational choice – James Rolleston – as the new face of the telco. Everyone loves piglets, and there are few piglets more loveable than Piggy-Sue. Now let’s see how she lasts the distance.

No glory for NZ agencies at The New York Festivals Awards presentation on Friday night (NZ time). NZ won just two Third Prizes – one to DDB, the other to Cirkus.

True to the pioneering spirit of its West Coast homeland, Monteith’s is “following no one” yet again, thanks to its digital agency PHDIQ and Atlas (a Facebook company).

The New Zealand Herald took out the trifecta at the 2015 Canon Media Awards on Friday night, awarded Newspaper of the Year and Best Daily Newspaper (over 30,000 circulation) while its digital stablemate nzherald.co.nz was judged Best Website.