Y&R NZ has been crowned NZ Agency of the Year in Campaign Brief’s annual awards show. “Y&R embraced a sizeable dose of bravery to produce some of the year’s most talked about work: calling for a burger wars ceasefire, bringing five kids back to life to save others for Road Safety Week and convincing a nation to drink Breast Milk,” writes Sydney-based editor Michael Lynch.

With its eye fixed firmly on the NZ business consumer, NZME has launched The Economy Hub, a new and informative online video content series. 

Tickets for the 2016 Axis Awards went on sale yesterday. Tickets cost $235. Also, CAANZ wants to remind readers to check out the Axis Agency Challenge (the link follows).

Mobile leads the way in Australasian market growth in Q4 2015, according to the latest quarterly report from TubeMogul, a leading Sydney-based US-owned enterprise software company for digital branding.

Acclaimed commercials director Steve Saussey and producer Yolande Dewey have joined forces with Sydney-based Jungle, which has also opened new offices in New Zealand.

Facebook has announced that Instant Articles will be open to all publishers globally in April. “We’re excited to announce that on April 12 at Facebook’s F8 conference, we will be opening up the Instant Articles program to all publishers—of any size, anywhere in the world,” says San Francisco-based product manager Josh Roberts in a release.

“We are InfluencerHQ and we are a five-person start up running out of Venture Up (A startup accelerator based in Wellington for the top young entrepreneurs in New Zealand),” writes Omer Hazer, who has put his neck on the line to tell agencies – via M+AD – how much he loves ad-blocker software.

Bell Tea & Coffee Company has appointed Special Group as its creative agency across all its tea and coffee brands – on both sides of the Tasman.