NZME’s Radio Sport has secured the exclusive radio broadcasting rights for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The coverage will be led by Radio Sports leading commentary team Malcolm Jordan, Nigel Yalden, Daniel McHardy and Brian Ashby who will call the action of Rio 2016 as it plays out. This will be the fifth Olympic Games that Radio Sport has broadcast since its inception in 1998. 

M+AD has learned – via an avalanche of tip-off emails from readers – that Dentsu Aegis network paid NZ2.5 million for its majority stake in former Auckland indie agency Barnes Catmur & Friends (now Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu).

How much did Japanese agency giant Dentsu Aegis Network pay for Barnes, Catmur & Friends Dentsu?

The Transport for London network has banned “negative body images” on trains and Tube stations network from next month – a result of a pledge by London’s new mayor Sadiq Khan, who was motivated to act after complaints about weight-loss ads that ran in stations.

See It Be It, the Cannes Lions initiative to remedy the industry’s underrepresentation of female creatives, has chosen 15 “high potential” women from over 500 applicants to discuss the issue at the festival. None of the 15 are from Australia or NZ.