After a final round of judging the shortlist for Google Student Axis is out, and all four finalist places have been taken out by MDS teams. Congratulations to Jacob Newton, Connyr Agita, Gal Stern, Jinah Song, Merino Mariner, Hamish Cullen, Lauren Day and Nathaniel Ong.

Special Group has created the 2degrees Data Hunt a competition to help client 2Degrees boost sign-ups. At stake is a huge stash of 200 million megabytes of free data, which has been planted all over New Zealand as part of the competition – all you have to do is find it!

Ad-blocking penetration globally will slow down in 2017, according to a prediction from Tom Kershaw, the chief product & engineering officer at the Rubicon Project in New York.

AUCKLAND: APN Outdoor, in conjunction with its charity partner Child Cancer Foundation, has tapped DDB’s Kat Tadaki & Kieran Beck as their 2016 Pixel361° winners.

Paris, November 25. – Omnicom is the Epica Awards Holding Company of the Year. Omnicom’s agencies – TBWA, DDB and BBDO – won a combined total of 82 awards during the 30th edition of the Epica Awards. It was a gratifying result for Omnicom after a battle between DDB, BBDO and Leo Burnett for the Network of the Year title, which was finally won by Leo Burnett from rival holding Publicis Groupe.

London, November 25. – D&AD has launched a new campaign for its 2017 global under-24 competition – the D&AD New Blood Awards. The campaign was created by UK agency The Beautiful Meme, and is designed to spark debate, following suggestions that the gender debate is over.

iHeartRadio – with a little help from their friends 2degrees – is to feature Kiwi band band The Naked and Famous performing a free live concert on Tuesday 10 January at Auckland’s Logan Campbell Centre as part of the group’s Simple Forms world tour.