A video campaign to sell milk? In film noir? With slam poetry? Bold – which is precisely why Jonny Kofoed and Assembly didn’t back down when creating a campaign for Fonterra’s Anchor milk brand. He talks us through the campaign after picking up a Purple Pin for the effort at last year’s Best Design Awards.

In support of International Woman’s Day, FCB’s London branch, FCB Inferno, is using playing cards to change the way we teach children to talk about gender.

A new campaign by Rogue Society Gin, via Motion Sickness, declares they have ‘made a name for themselves’ and the New Zealand company doesn’t just mean figuratively. After an international scuffle with an American brewing company that had a beer called ‘Rogue’, the company has rebranded to be Scapegrace Dry Gin to better promote its product overseas.

To bring to life its ‘Armoured Truck’ TVC, Lotto New Zealand is giving Kiwis the opportunity to answer if they would split a Lotto win 50/50 with their best mate.

While Holden has earned a place in many New Zealanders’ hearts, news that the General Motors-owned brand was stopping manufacturing in Australia last year led some to believe the brand was also on the way out. And as that misperception continued to grow, Holden has decided to face up to it and set the record straight with the help of Aussie actor Michael Caton.

Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.

A full rundown on what to expect from the latest issue of NZ Marketing.

Kiwibank and Banqer are on a quest to help Kiwi kids learn about the intricacies of financial literacy. The new spot on social shows kids disclosing their finances – talking mortgages, insurance and loans.

Over the last week, the media agency commission model has been given the axe by the National Business Review. It’s a decision headed by publisher Todd Scott, who dished out plenty of heat to media agencies on social media, including declaring that the “gravy train reign is over”. StopPress asked fellow publishers and agencies if the model is in fact long in the tooth, or if Scott and the NBR have barked up the wrong tree.

A round of applause for Spark, BNZ and Bags Not.