The Government has effectively taken a swipe at the NZ ad business by setting up something called the Computer Emergency Response Team (aka Cert), a state agency that is urging consumers to install adblocking software.

Sydney-based Campaign Brief has issued the entry call for its 2018 CB Australian Agency of the Year, and the CB New Zealand Agency of the Year.

On Friday 13th, M&M’s NZ began pre-haunting boxes of M&M’S in preparation for the Halloween season. Here’s the blurb from Colenso … 

Wellington arts promoter Stewart Macpherson is seeking sponsors to help him mount an Auckland exhibition in NZ of the art of Banksy – the celebrated English street artist of uncertain identity.

Johnny Douglas, the broadcasting programmer who introduced state-owned radio to The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino in the late 1960s, died in Wellington last week aged 79.

An enticing opportunity to taste Penfolds finest wine at 35,000 feet was the premise of Sugar & Partners’ Cellar Door Flight campaign, launched in September for long-term client partner South Australia Tourism Commission.

Grey Lynn-based digital marketing agency Done by Friday has changed its name – for today only – to Done by Friday the 13th in an admirably opportunistic self-marketing strike.

Indie Hamilton ad agency Bettle & Associates has this week launched a Vote Nuts campaign for Prolife, one of NZ’s largest privately owned food business, delivering over $200 million in sales annually through its Alison’s Pantry and Mother Earth brands.