SYDNEY, Last night: NZ entrants performed above their weight at Australia’s AWARD Awards – with four Gold Pencils apiece going to Clemenger BBDO Wellington, DDB Group NZ and FCB NZ. In addition, FCB NZ’s Lennie Galloway and Thomas Gledhill were named Creative Team of the Year.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Marketing Association has issued its entry call for the TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards. Entries close at 5pm on Friday 17 May.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Commercial Communications Council and Association of New Zealand Advertisers have written jointly to the Prime Minister asking that Government actively address local regulatory solutions and encourage a coordinated international response by political leaders to ensure social media platforms are good corporate actors.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Sky account remains with DDB after the client met with other agencies, according to an unconfirmed report in Stop Press. The other agencies Sky consulted are said to be True and TBWA.

AUCKLAND, Today: Burger King agency VMLY&R has remained stoically silent in the face of the global media slaverings directed at their ‘racist’ 8sec social media ad for BK’s Vietnamese sweet chilli tendercrisp burger.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Stuff (with 84 finalists) led the way in today’s release of the shortlists for the 2019 Voyager Media Awards. Rounding out the top three are NZ Herald/NZME (56) and Bauer Media (24).