justONE, with 15 unique campaigns, leads the list of finalists unveiled this morning for the NZDM Awards. Second is Colenso BBDO/Proximity (with nine), FCB and Chemistry Interaction (both with seven), and Young + Shand with five.

Auckland full-service agencies Terabyte and The Creative Shop have “joined forces” under the Terabyte banner, with The Creative Shop moving into the Terabyte offices in York St Parnell.

Auckland-based design company Alt Group has taken home a top category honour at the AGDA Awards in Adelaide. The AGDA Awards recognise and document the best communication design work happening in Australia and New Zealand at any given time.

Auckland, 30 November – Getty Images has today unveiled to its highly anticipated visual trend forecast. The ground-breaking forecast sets out the macro and micro trends that will influence design, advertising and brand communications throughout 2017 and predicts the social and cultural visual language that consumers will be most responsive to in the years to come.

Facebook NZ has launched Creative Hub, a new destination where marketers and advertisers can be inspired by great creative, design their own and share it with others.

SaleCycle’s APAC chief revenue officer Chris Brinkworth shares his crystal ball insights exclusively with M+AD readers: As new channels and opportunities for transmitting marketing messages that drive online conversion open up, organisations are likely to fall into the trap of creating ‘strategies’ to deal with what are effectively just extensions of their marketing mix. 

Volume 12 of Phantom Billstickers’ Café Reader – the Summer 2016 edition of New Zealand’s subversive bible of Kiwi art/music/poetry community – has arrived in town.

Sydney, 30 November – Predictive smart technology similar to that which makes film and music recommendations for digital streaming services will soon be matching up users with relevant mobile advertising in Australia and New Zealand.