Dentsu Aegis Network has announced the acquisition of Davanti Consulting Ltd (Davanti), a New Zealand-based technology and business consultancy into Isobar Group.

Disguised as big blockbuster trailers, Vodafone’s latest cinema spots encourage cinemagoers to turn off their phones before the film begins.

Sportswear retailer Stirling Sports has launched a new campaign with Motion Sickness, celebrating the diversity of its customers and asking people to rise above their “haters” and prove them wrong.

The Pond has added a new digital recruitment lead to its leadership team ­– Hayden Baker.

This year, digital advertising is blowing out 25 candles as the first banner ad was placed a quarter century ago. At last week’s Adobe Symposium in Sydney, the milestone was celebrated with Adobe APAC head of advertising cloud Phil Cowlishaw taking a trip back in time to see how digital advertising has gone beyond banner ads and how marketers need to be considering more than just clicks.

The New Zealand media agency advertising market has finally returned to growth in May with a 2.3 percent year-on-year increase in agency bookings to $87.3 million.

Trade Me has chosen to partner with Clemenger Group agencies Clemenger BBDO Wellington and Colenso BBDO Auckland after a four-way pitch.

The NZ Transport Agency’s latest road safety campaign ‘Let Driving Distract You’ positions the car as a chance to escape the noise of messages, notifications and distractions offered by your cell phone.

Kaitiakitanga, or guardianship of the land, is the founding principle behind solar energy company Solarcity’s latest campaign ‘Grid for Good’.

We’ve given the mic to the industry’s future leaders. Kate Hobbs, an account manager at Rainger & Rolfe, shares her thoughts on adland.

The first thing to know about creative digital agency Resn is they aren’t just famous in New Zealand. They’re renowned worldwide. But what are we saying? Anyone who knows anything about Aotearoa’s design community already knows what legends they are. Which is why it’s only fitting for global managing director and executive creative director Rik Campbell and Steve Le Marquand to win the John Britten Black Pin at the most recent Best Design Awards – because they are among the very best.