FCB chief strategist David Thomason has added his voice to those who criticise the trend to separate creative and media agencies that previously did business under a combined banner.

The Advertising Standards Authority has introduced its new Therapeutic & Health Advertising Code, which is now effective for all ads in this sector.

MediaWorks says its new digital audio streaming platform rova will go live in January. The platform brings together all MediaWorks’ radio entertainment stations into one app, offering New Zealanders a streamlined way to access rite Kiwi radio content in a digital environment.

NZ’s Val Morgan has challenged claims – published in M+AD Monday – from indie chain Screen Vistas owner Lisa Matena that hers is the “largest cinema network in New Zealand”.

Christchurch web design studio Sons & Co have designed a new website for Britomart-based customer behaviour insights agency TRA.

Yahoo Platforms NZ has released new audience data for New Zealand brands about the digital daily habits of their audiences, as well as broader information about their lives across automotive, food and health, finance, entertainment, travel and purchase behaviour.

Taika Waititi and Curious Films’ hit movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople has been named No 1 Best Movie of the Year by the UK’s biggest-selling and most influential magazine, Bauer’s Empire (also published in the US, Australia, Turkey, Russia, Italy and Portugal).

Veteran newsman ‘Flash’ Gordon McBride – one of the last of NZ’s old-school newspapermen –died “peacefully” in Wellington yesterday, aged 65, after a battle with cancer.