AUCKLAND, Today: WPP AUNZ agencies Assignment Group and Y&R NZ will join forces to expand the local arm of VMLY&R. Read More

AUCKLAND, Monday: The Comms Council and the Association of NZ Advertisers are to take a much closer look at the role played by social media – particularly that of live streaming –... Read More

AUCKLAND, Today: Singapore-based ad-tech company Adzymic has expanded to New Zealand, partnering with NZ premium digital media providers Digital Commons to bring their content advertising and dynamic creative solution to market. Read More

AUCKLAND, Sunday: MDS Adschool students Zach Hall & Clementina de Ruiter were the winners of this year’s Google Student Axis, announced at the awards show last week. Read More

AUCKLAND, Today: Our spies tell us we undersold the achievements of Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu on the APAC Effies shortlist – announced yesterday in M+AD (scroll down for the link). Read More

LONDON, Sunday: Colenso BBDO is the 6th best agency in the world, according to The Warc Rankings (successor to the Gunn Report and the Warc 100) released at the weekend. Read More

AUCKLAND, Today: Iconic Kiwi department store Farmers is returning to 99 and the Clemenger Group, following a competitive pitch process which saw specialist customer agency, 99, together with the group’s creative powerhouse... Read More

AUCKLAND, Friday: A terse telephone and email exchange exploded last week between Comms Council chief Paul Head and M+AD ed David Gapes – in which Head said he might “blacklist” the news... Read More