Entries are now open for the 2017 New Zealand Social Media Awards, aka the #NZSMAs (formerly known as the #SMCAKLs). This year’s event will be NZ’s biggest ever celebration of social media talent,” says the ceo/organiser, Auckland-based digital designer/entrepreur Julian A Waters.

The ASB has appointed Dentsu Aegis Australia agency WiTH Collective to replace Saatchi & Saatchi as its agency of record, following the bank’s split with Saatchi announced two weeks ago.

Deloitte Access Economics has released Advertising Pays, a report for the Commercial Communications Council and the first time an econometric analysis of advertising’s monetary value has been undertaken in New Zealand.

AIG is to host Raising Your Game, a breakfast meeting produced by NZME Events that will focus on the “determination, preparation and innovation” that business and sports teams require to reach the next level. The event will be on Tuesday 27 June at Auckland’s SkyCity Theatre at 7am.

Auckland shop Boyd PR is throwing its weight behind Look Good Feel Better, a charity providing free “Feel Better” classes for people with cancer that is hitting the road again in its mobile shipping container at a time when demand for its service is increasing.

A gay creative director at Leo Burnett Hong Kong has reacted to Taiwan’s legalisation of same-sex marriage, in this wide-ranging Q&A interview published last week in Campaign China, and repeated yesterday in Campaign Asia.

TVNZ’s Content Solutions and Blacksand teams led Mercury’s Shortland Street campaign development, in collaboration with producers South Pacific Pictures, and Mercury’s marketing team and their agency FCB Media. Satellite managed the national roadshow and Staples executde its innovative virtual reality concept.

The Auckland Council advertising pitch, which includes the Auckland Council, ATEED and Auckland Transport accounts, has been awarded to a collection of agencies, according to a report in Tangible site Stoppress.