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.

On Friday night, New Zealand’s journalists gathered to celebrate the industry’s best across print and online at the Voyager Media Awards, in a showcase of how journalism has transformed over the years.

It was FCB Media’s night last night at the 2019 Commercial Communications Council Beacon Awards, when the agency took home gold after gold in front of a sell-out crowd of New Zealand’s media personalities.

As a benchmark for impeccably designed packaging of consumer products, The Dieline Awards this year saw creative agency Onfire walk away with recognition for fantastic design for their retail products. We spoke with Matt Grantham, creative director at Onfire Design, about the importance of a strong visual brand in the retail product sector.

The finalists for the 2019 Axis Awards have been announced and it’s Colenso BBDO leading the way with 64 mentions, followed by FCB on 55 and DDB on 51.

There was plenty to celebrate last night at the Campaign Agency of the Year 2018 Awards as local agencies took to the stage, with DDB New Zealand and Special Group collecting the most gongs.

The finalists for the 2018 NZDM Awards have been announced and with 18 finalists across 11 unique campaigns, it’s Colenso BBDO leading the way.

Last night, at Sky City’s Bar Twenty-One, New Zealand’s PR, brand experience, events and social media industry professionals celebrated the best campaigns from the last year at the inaugural PREScom Awards.

Last night New Zealand’s TV stars gathered at Auckland’s Civic Theatre to celebrate the best in show at the Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards. TVNZ people and programmes won across 14 categories and MediaWorks won across five.

Next week PR, experiential and social professionals will be gathering with their clients for the inaugural PREScom Awards, and it’s Spark PR & Activate, Copper Brand Experiences and Fuse Leading the finalists.

Auckland’s Shed 10 was taken over by advertising and marketing folk last night, excited to celebrate the country’s most effective marketing campaigns at the 2018 NZ Effie Awards in association with TVNZ.

Insight and analytics agency TRA has won gold at the ESOMAR Research Effectiveness Awards for its segmentation work with Paymark.

From a calming, machine-learning led interactive experience at Starship Children’s Hospital, to the story of a goat that acts as anti-bullying initiative and teaches children the effect their actions can have, the best in New Zealand design was crowned at the 2018 Best Awards on the weekend – and a discussion about gender equality in design has been brought to the industry’s attention. Here are the supreme winners, and a statement from the Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ) CEO Cathy Veninga on the protests that took place.