Blacksand ECD Jens Hertzum, the Media Design School’s Jamie Telford, NZME’s Dallas Gurney, Vice NZ ed Frances Morton, Animation Research’s Ian Taylor, Y&R New York’s Catherine Patterson, and Augusto’s Leon Kirkbeck are among the 25 high-powered NZ and offshore speakers – including who will speak at the Magnify VR & AR South Pacific Summit next week in Auckland.

CAANZ and NZME have released the first hi-res pix of the NZME Best Dressed Male & Female competition winners from last week’s Beacons in Auckland.

The Commerce Commission will have the final say on the APN-Fairfax merger proposal – and how much impact the overwhelmingly negative views of media commentators and hostile journos have on the ultimate decision remains to be seen.

The Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity has appointed MasterCard as the headline sponsor for this year’s Spikes.

Facebook NZ today introduces a new look for Instagram, including an updated icon and app design for the main Instagram app, and a new unified set of icons for Boomerang, Hyperlapse, and Layout.

Two of New Zealand’s best young digital experts have been recognised in the Australasian Yahoo 2016 Digital Stars programme, now in its fifth year.

Facebook has overnight announced a variety of product updates to Facebook and Instagram to help advertisers drive demand and sales of their products and services. 

Parnell & Christchurch-based software content marketing platform Shuttlerock has become the first New Zealand company to pick up a top honour as part of the annual Facebook Innovation Spotlight, taking out this year’s Creativity category.

What do you do when you’ve no further use for a MAD 1 numberplate? Why, you contact M+AD, of course!

Ray White Group is holding talks with three NZ agencies as it looks to leverage its appointment of All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen as its global brand ambassador.