Last night, 13 gold Effies were awarded to the country’s most effective marketing campaigns at the 2019 Effie Awards. There, FCB celebrated success, winning the Most Effective Agency of the Year and the Grand Effie for its Pak’nSave’s Stickman work, while DB Breweries was named the Most Effective Client of the Year and saw Sean O’Donnell take out the inaugural Most Effective Marketer

The 2019 Best Awards was held at the Spark Arena on Friday night celebrating the crème de la crème of the design industry. It recognised designers, young and old, for their craft across a range of categories, from graphic to moving image to product design. Most who attended were in agreement that the night was a blast, and resembled the maturing success of the design industry in Aotearoa. Here is a breakdown of the supreme winners.

The 100 finalists for this year’s Effie Awards have been announced and DDB leads the way with 28 mentions, followed by FCB and Colenso BBDO, both on 20.

Colenso BBDO has taken the title of Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year at the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity.

DB Breweries has taken out the Supreme Awards at this year’s TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards for their ‘Reviving a Legend – Tui’s Stepchange Into RTDs’ marketing initiative. Meanwhile, Jo Mitchell from McDonald’s New Zealand was celebrating her Marketer of the Year win and Philip Poole was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.

The 2019 IAB New Zealand Digital Advertising Awards were held last night where MBM was named Agency of the Year and Tianze Yu, Big Mobile campaign manager, won the Grand Prix.

The Commercial Communications Council has announced The Pressie Awards are back for a second year, after launching in 2018 as the PRESCom Awards.

Finalists of the 2019 IAB New Zealand Digital Advertising Awards have been announced and its set to be a big night, with the number of categories increasing on last year’s event and the number of entries more than doubling.

Last night, New Zealand’s PR practitioners gathered in Wellington to celebrate the best in the business at the 2019 PRINZ Awards and it was the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand that was took home the Supreme Award.

This year, local agencies have been seeing Bronze at Cannes and that trend continued over the weekend as Colenso BBDO took home three Bronze Lions.

Last night, New Zealand’s radio talent stepped out from behind the microphones for the 2019 NZ Radio Awards. The big winners on the night were ZM, judged the Station of the Year – Network, and Mike Hosking, of Newstalk ZB, who once again took home the Best Talk Presenter – Breakfast or Drive.

Colenso BBDO has taken home three Bronze Lions – two in the Film Craft category for ‘I’m Drinking It For You’ for DB Breweries with Sweetshop and Spark’s spot ‘Wedding’ with Finch Sydney. The third for ‘Kupu’ for Spark in the Digital Craft category.

Overnight Special Group picked up the first Cannes Lion for New Zealand, with ‘Shark Bait’ for Uber Eats taking a bronze in the Outdoor category.

The first shortlists for the 2019 Cannes Lions have been announced and among the finalists are FCB, Colenso BBDO, Clemenger BBDO, and Special Group.

Last night, the winners of the 2019 D&AD Awards were announced with local agencies scoring 11 pencils. Among them, it’s Colenso BBDO with the most to celebrate as it claimed four pencils including the only Yellow for New Zealand.