Time is running out to draft entries for the 2018 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards. Entries close at 5pm this Friday (18 May).

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Dentsu Aegis Network launched its annual volunteer initiative, One Day for Change, for the fifth consecutive year last Friday, with staff volunteering their time to support more than 40 different charity organisations in ANZ.

More than 570 people gathered at Cordis Auckland on Friday for the Voyager Media Awards (formerly, the Canon Media Awards), to celebrate excellence in New Zealand journalism. Winners were selected from 335 finalists across 68 categories.  

Colenso BBDO has set up a way for Netflix cheaters to find redemption and make things up with their friends/partners. It all goes live at 9am.

Colenso BBDO and DDB had another impressive performance at The One Club for Creativity’s 45th annual One Show in New York during the week and over the weekend.

A sell-out crowd of just under 1000 of New Zealand’s leading media personalities came together last night to celebrate the industry’s best work from the past year at the 2018 Commercial Communications Council Beacon Awards, in association with NZME.

The biggest awards show in this part of the world, the Spikes Asia, has issued its call for entries, with early-bird savings available until 20 July.

The winners of the 2018 New Zealand Radio Awards were announced at the awards ceremony at Auckland’s Shed 10 last night – which doubled as a celebration of the awards’ 40th anniversary.

Burger King New Zealand has announced it is consolidating creative and media agencies under one roof. Y&R NZ had previously delivered BK’s media strategy, trading and implementation services. BK has now extended Y&R’s remit to include creative, social and digital.

Over 80 agency glitterati joined together at K Rd’s Thievery Productions on Wednesday night to celebrate the launch of a groundbreaking new book by New Zealander Sarah Ritchie, titled How to Wrestle an Octopus: an agency account manager’s guide to pretty much everything.