AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has posted the entry call for the 2019 Battle of the Ad Bands, this year sponsored by Flying Fish (scroll down for the entry link).

AUCKLAND, Today: DDB has produced three new tvcs and a series of out-of-home executions to support Sky’s Life Needs More Sport platform. The campaign puts a humorous sporting spin on everyday situations.

AUCKLAND, Today: DB Breweries have taken out the Supreme Award at last night’s TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards, held at the Cordis, for their Reviving a Legend – Tui’s Stepchange Into RTDs marketing initiative.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Colenso BBDO’s Spark Kupu, the breakthrough mobile app that helps people learn Te Reo Māori by translating photos of objects around them, has been upgraded.

AUCKLAND, Today: Downtown shop Anthem (which began life as a PR firm before reinventing itself as a full-service creative agency) has helped Cure Kids launch a new-look Red Nose Day campaign aimed at helping the charity to deliver on its mission to fund “big research for little lives”.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Edge is NZ’s top-ranked network with a weekly reach of 590,800 listeners, according to the latest GfK commercial radio ratings, released this morning.

AUCKLAND, Today: Bad weather used to be bad news for street posters, but not street-poster maestros Phantom Billstickers who have developed a poster that doesn’t peel off in the wet.

AUCKLAND, Today: Sporting fans in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch will have the best seat in the stadium, with bus shelters across the city transformed into immersive mini arenas as part of a new oOh!media campaign for the Sky TV Network.

AUCKLAND, Today: NZ’s biggest alcoholic beverage company Lion is amidst a pitch for a new media agency, according to a report by business writer Damien Venuto in today’s NZ Herald. The incumbent is Zenith Optimedia.