Only one nod for New Zealand at the Warc Awards in the UK – Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu were recognised with a Shortlist nomination for their powerful NZ Heart Foundation campaign, in the Brand Purpose category.

Just one week till the doors open at the region’s most prestigious creative advertising show – the Spikes Asia, to be held again this year in Singapore. The festival runs Wednesday-Friday 27-29 September.

QMSNZ has launched The Panorama, a premium digital billboard situated in the heart of the main terminal at Wellington International Airport. 

Tickets for Effie 2017 go on sale tomorrow (Friday 22 September). M+AD will publish the purchase link in our daily edition, which hits the streets around 1pm.

Paris-based freelance British journalist Mark Tungate – the gent who runs the Epica Advertising Awards – has released a new book about the business of travel, The Escape Industry.

Leading skin cancer detection specialist MoleMap has appointed J Walter Thompson New Zealand as its agency of record, after a competitive pitch. 

Following a competitive pitch that dates back to July, Goodman Fielder is understood to have appointed its new agency partners, according to a report in StopPress.

“Despite our name, we don’t operate a ghostly, fly-by-night service – installing posters in 6000+ frames each week from Whangarei to Invercargill is a dawn-to-dusk logistics act,” reads the latest Phantom Billstickers flyer – and, as usual with comms from this lively outfit, it’s a good read.

InMobi, perhaps the world’s largest independent mobile advertising platform, has forged a partnership with Auckland-based indie marketing agency Digital Commons.

Te Aro-based content creation agency Wrestler provided the artistry behind The Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency’s new Australian tourism campaign.