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To mark the launch of Lotto’s latest game, Play 3, DDB has created a trio of spots with a focus on “fun” things that come in threes.

Liquid Studios Auckland has made the shortlist in the TV/Cinema/Online Film – Music & Sound at the London International Awards, currently under way in Las Vegas.

The New York Festivals International Advertising Awards competition has issued its entry call for the 2015 competition. Entries submitted before December 16 will earn a 10% discount on their entry fees. The 2015 competition entry deadline is January 31.

Ogilvy & Mather and Cirkus shot Tin Can and Plastic, launching two characters who aim to convince Aucklanders that mixing rubbish and recycling is a no-no. The Auckland Council initiative is a very good idea – and long overdue.

Creative retail agency .99 and My Kitchen Rules NZ sponsor Genesis Energy have devised a fast-paced online quiz to coincide with the show’s move to Kitchen HQ. The game, called Guess the Ingredients, launched earlier this week, mimics the pressure tests featured on the show, and gives viewers the chance to see how well they perform in a race against the clock.

For the third year, Sky TV and its customers, with help from DDB, will play a leading role in raising funds for the Starship Foundation. This year the funds raised will help Kiwi babies avoid Sudden Unexplained Death in Infancy (SUDI) with the Pepi-Pod programme.

Parnell-based digital content creation company The Digital Arm has launched the 180° Colour Cam – a rig of 18 DSLR cameras all taking a photo in the same split second to render a seven-second video showing a moment in time, captured in 180°.

JWT Auckland’s new campaign for power company Contact Energy brings to the screen the complexities of home life, with doses of humour, and illustrates the brand’s vision to help New Zealanders live more comfortably with energy.

Facebook has relaunched Atlas, the ad platform it bought off Microsoft, and now picked up globally by Omnicom. Atlas gives advertisers one place to create, buy, measure and optimise digital campaigns. It enables real-world, people-based impact across multiple devices (not just desktop) and the entire internet, on a massive scale.

Despite having access to two of the most creative agencies in town – Special and Open – ecostore (no creative slouch itself, obviously) has gone in-house to market its new plastic bottles, made from sugarcane.