AUCKLAND, Today: The 11th annual Battle of the Ad Bands takes place tonight at Galatos, where the MC, Radio Hauraki’s Georgia Cubbon, will be running the show. 

Pure-play premium digital outdoor operator, Lumo Digital Outdoor NZ, has selected the Ayuda software platform to run business operations, digital signage content serving and next-generation dynamic offerings.

Phantom Billstickers has unveiled a number of new sites this month – among them this beauty in Manners Street, in the heart of Wellington’s CBD.

Media Design School is the most awarded school worldwide in the innovation category at the 2018 Ad Stars, according to MDS programme leader Kate Humphries.

NZ shoppers are being treated to a fragrant sensory experience when they interact with Ti Ora’s specially built oOh!media retail panels as part of an out-of- home campaign to showcase three of its tea flavours. 

Just five days after M+AD published its story about the doors closing at Queen St ad agency Aamplify, the company has gone into liquidation.

Auckland-based brand consultancy YBrand has unveiled a partnership with GridAKL – part of the innovation precinct in the Wynyard Quarter – to launch a campaign celebrating New Zealand innovators, entrepreneurs and people who build things “From Scratch”. 

The Radio Bureau has shot a short video (above) of the free Ralph van Dijk creativity & copywriting roadshows held earlier this month in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Auckland-based The Mail Room Comms informs us that the NZ Events Association Awards are now open for entry. NZEA chair Andrea Scotland said (in the TMC release) that the awards have seen “remarkable year-on-year growth”, creating an intensely competitive forum that promotes excellence within the events sector.