Sydney PR exponent/crisis comms expert Patrick Southam has written a scathing story for Aussie ad-sheet Mumbrella about the professional PR policies at Cricket Australia, in the wake of the national team’s cheating sensation – caught in full frontal by national commercial television.

Colenso BBDO has redesigned the agency to focus on creative collaboration, clients’ customers and new ways of working – via an in-depth press release that explains why & how the agency has evolved its agency model.

Auckland PR agency Lily & Louis reports that it’s seeing “a cracking start” to the year with a stable of new clients added to its portfolio.

One of the world’ big creative shows – New York’s Clio Awards – has named its jury chairs for 2018, and set its dates for 2018.

With eight agencies in the 2018 Gunn Media 100 agency ranking, released overnight, MediaCom is the top-ranked network in the world. PHD is in second place. It also had eight agencies in the top 50, three of them in the top 10.

NZ agencies picked up two very big awards – the Grande Integrated Lotus and the Grande Lotus for Mobile, plus a Gold and a handful of Bronzes– at Adfest Thailand over the weekend.

Leading NZ workplace media & content network VMO Work has broken the NZ half-million professional-worker audience milestone, according to the latest data.

The Marketing Association has appointed two new members to its board – KiwiBank marketing GM Regan Savage, and Sealord GM Stuart Yorson. Fronde COO Emma Watson has been reappointed.

Onetime Saatchi & Saatchi Wellington GM Michael Rebelo has announced his departure after six years at the helm of Saatchi Sydney. He is passing the ceo mantle over to newly appointed successor, Anthony Gregorio.