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

A new global campaign shot by Flying Fish to promote the new BMW 1 series features some of the City of Sails’ most iconic sights.

Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) wants you to stop undermining “the greatest meat on earth” in its latest campaign via Sydney-based agency The Monkeys.

Nike Australia has taken a fresh approach to its ‘Just Do It’ slogan, in a series of videos showing athletes going to extreme measures to make their workouts extra challenging.

RNZ has joined the radio survey party this week and in a similar showing to the previous results, RNZ National sits in second place for audience reach and the top spot for talkback radio.

Independent mobile ad tech company Big Mobile has announced its acquisition of Made Media, a New Zealand mobile display advertising business.

Air New Zealand has continued its elaborate safety video tradition with a new four-minute spot that features actors Katie Holmes and Cuba Gooding Jr. But when it comes to the clip’s whimsical surrealism, has the airline ripped off a music video by Coldplay?

Advertising’s done all sorts of things to grab people’s attention, and frankly, these mothers are unimpressed.

Hats off to Tourism New Zealand, ASB and Fonterra.

Mazda hopes to stop people from scrolling through social media while driving, with a reminder of the consequences playing out on the newsfeed.

The Clemenger Group New Zealand has announced a majority investment in research/customer intelligence company Perceptive Group in a move designed to add data-driven marketing capabilities to its offering.

ASB’s first TVC via With Collective features the ‘Ghost of San Francisco’ as the bank celebrates the America’s Cup win with a cheeky smile.

Nielsen and the Industry Research Group (IRG) are currently in the process of rethinking the CMI media research product in a bid to develop a service that better meets the needs of communications planners. PLUS: help the industry by completing the survey.

In the past five years, the changes to adland have been unprecedented, with the rise of programmatic advertising and digital ad spend. So much so, that the number of practitioners with the required digital skills has been unable to keep up and the resulting skills shortage has until now been filled by churn and those with the skills in demand jumping between companies.

It was 2014 that Spark announced its partnership with Kiwi NBA player Steven Adams and the Auckland Council to open five basketball courts around Auckland in a campaign called ‘The Boroughs’, and last week, it finally met that promise with the opening of the East Auckland court.

Mediaworks brings the furries to town.