Just minutes after we posted Friday’s rant about Independent Liquor pulling its creative & media accounts from Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu, we received two emails that answered all our questions – Whybin advised us they’d won the creative side of the business, and OMD notified us of their media win for the same client.

Readers have filled in the gaps around last week’s Legends’ Lunch photo – notably the location (Cibo Parnell) and the date (it was shot in 2014).

News Corp Australia is to prevent people using adblockers from accessing digital content as it looks to fight back against readers who are circumventing ads and “destroying” the media firm’s business model.

Y&R NZ scooped the big prizes at Australia’s AWARD Awards held in Sydney on Friday, taking out Best in Show (for McWhopper) and Asia Pacific Agency of the Year – plus nine Gold Pencils (the most for any agency on either side of the Tasman).

Whybin\TBWA is raising a glass to their newest client partnership with Independent Liquor. Whybin\TBWA will be working across Independent’s full portfolio of brands including Asahi, Boundary Road Brewery, Carlsberg, Kingfisher, Etrella Damm, Long White, Vodka Cruiser, Woodstock and Somersby.

It takes a creative agency, a simple idea and a name change to turn a room full of beautiful people ugly. Clients old and new, media, suppliers, partners, friends and family were invited via letter-pressed invite and microsite weve changed.co.nz to celebrate RUN’s official launch event at Ponsonby Social Club last night.

ONE FOR THE ROAD: Independent Liquor has sacked Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu, and decided to move their creative and media to other agencies. The agency has confirmed the move, but Independent Liquor and its PR firm PPR have made a dive for cover.