A Chicago student team has won the New York Festivals Young Globals 2017 Award. “Sadly,” writes PR director Gayle Seminara Mandel, “there are no Kiwis. I am just sharing.”

By Nikki Quail, founder/MD at Fresh Focus: The subject of mobile in the path to purchase emerged as a common theme in the conversations Fresh Focus has been having while presenting the Adtech-funded report: Behind the Device.

M+AD readers looking for news on this failed NZME-Stuff merger should consult their daily newspaper or online newsfeeds for all the angles on this news.

Following Phantom Billstickers’ popular Poetry on Posters series, the most music-friendly ad medium in the country reckons it’s now time for New Zealand’s musicians to step into the spotlight.

As signalled a month back, Marketing Association ceo Gill Stewart has resigned after 18 months at the helm. Her temporary replacement is Tony Mitchell, who’ll keep the seat warm while the search for a permanent ceo continues.

The new Whittaker’s Toffee Milk Chocolate campaign – devised by Whittaker’s, in collaboration with Assignment Group and MBM – once again has taken inspiration from history, says assistant marketing manager Jasmine Currie.

Ireland’s premier international creative advertising awards show, the Kinsale Shark Awards, is now open for entries. As from today, Film, Music Video, Print and Design categories can all be entered until the deadline on Wednesday 6 September. The festival runs from Thursday 21-Saturday 23 September in Kinsale, Ireland.

The Advertising Standards Authority has today reported that advertising revenue across all main media was $2.572 billion dollars for the 12 months ended 31 December 2016 (the 2015 total was $2.570 billion).

In a global first, VMO has launched a Programmatic Outdoor product that allows advertisers to target specific demographics in real time across its outdoor networks. The product has launched today in New Zealand with its first partner – global brand Subway.