MediaCom (with 18 finalists – eight of them with BCG2) leads the way in the list released by CAANZ today for the upcoming Beacon Awards next month. Close behind come FCB Media (17), PHD (12), OMD (10), Carat (6 – two with Special Group, and three with Saatchi), Starcom 6(one with DDB).

This is the last issue of our M+AD daily e-newsletter until after Easter (there’ll be no email tomorrow or Monday – but it’ll back on Tuesday).

NZME’s free video-on-demand website is set to expand with the launch of 16 new entertainment series and two new channels – News and Sport.

Asia-Pacific creativity festival the Spikes Asia has merged with the Tangrams Effectiveness awards programme, which will now sit alongside Spikes Asia 2017.

Twin city (Hamilton & Tauranga) creative agency King St Advertising got into the Easter spirit yesterday by filming the shenanagins – featuring an Easter egg hunt that culminates in a punch-up between ceo Chris Williams and group GM Tim Paton.

Bauer flagship title North & South has won a legion of new Green friends with its latest cover feature, a Vanity Fair-style photoshoot of the Green Party candidates – enough story potential to interest the Herald, which ran 200 words and the cover on A8 yesterday.

Global kudos keep coming to Colenso BBDO – the latest being named among the top five socially aware agencies in 2016 by The Good Report.

MediaWorks has appointed newly established WeThinkMedia as its advertising representation agency in Australia, effective immediately.

South Korea’s New Stars – the APAC region’s main challenge for young creatives – has issued its annual invitation for creatives with fewer than three years’ experience (or aged under 30) to register for the 2017  this year’s competition.