The Facebook fan numbers posted in M+AD on Friday were not – as we claimed – an actual top 20. The ‘rankings’ were the result of Porter Novelli exercise that compared Countdown’s fan numbers to other, similar, major brands like New World and Pak’nSave.

Shortland Street-based branding agency Principals has developed a new brand design identity for New Zealand commercial law giant Russell McVeagh.

We’ve long admired the food, music and movie reviews of veteran Auckland journo Peter Calder – usually to be found in the NZ Herald. His latest, in yesterday’s Sunday Herald Travel section, is typically useful. 

Flying Fish director Niki Caro has been confirmed to direct Disney’s live action remake of Mulan – only the second woman to direct a Disney project with a budget more than $100m and the 5th ever woman to direct a movie over that budget benchmark.

With just one week remaining for photographers and filmmakers to enter this year’s D&AD Next Awards, F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi Rio de Janeiro have released a new series of stop-motion animations as the centrepiece of this year’s Every Pixel Counts campaign, which spotlights the work of previous Next Award winners and the attention to detail of their creative process.

The D&AD Professional Awards deadline has been extended to Wednesday 1 March, giving entrants two more weeks to enter.

The creatives at Ogilvy have devised a wickedly funny Axis Pub Quiz to help us while away the rainy weather – while at the same time lighting a fire under the CAANZ entry procedure for the biggest creative show of 2017.