New Zealand makes an appearance in a Fedex campaign released earlier this month—and the result isn’t all that pretty.

Bcg2 has been appointed as the main creative agency for New Zealand Opera, with digital, radio and print creative for the September 2016 season of Sweeney Todd—The Demon Barber of Fleet Street currently in the market. PLUS: find out who previously had the account, and a look at some of the award-winning work NZ Opera has produced in the past.

Cosmopolitan UK has taken its connection with its readers to the next level, by creating them a car.

Adidas is celebrating the overcoming of odds in an Indian campaign, which promotes the sale of odd shoes.

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

TVNZ has dubbed Duke its ‘innovation station’ – a place where it can experiment with unconventional programming and scheduling decisions in a bid to attract a younger audience. We chat to channel’s programmer Ed Kindred about what this means and what he’s doing differently. PLUS: a look at how many Kiwis tuned into the the Paralympics this year.

You know it’s mayoral election time when your street, mailbox and favourite cafes become flooded with images of smiling candidates. It’s usually not long until someone puts spray paint to billboard, which often solidifies the images even more in one’s memory. But, having your face plastered over different types of media isn’t cheap and this is a luxury Auckland mayoral candidate Chloe Swarbrick, who has next-to-no funding, doesn’t have. We chat to Swarbrick about what it’s like running a campaign with little money and if this would have been possible at all ten years ago.

Firefly actor Alan Tudyk has lent his awkward brand of humour to Loot Crate, an organisation selling quirky items related to a variety of shows, video games and comic books. As it turns out, Tudyk is slightly better at playing a space cowboy on Firefly than at promoting products, making a range of hilarious mistakes as he attempts to explain Loot Crate to potential customers.

Apple has shown off the capabilities of its iPhone 7’s camera in low light in a new beautifully lit spot titled ‘Midnight’.

A slight international flavour to this week’s edition as we applaud HSBC, Skoda and Stoptober.

The latest issue of Mindfood Style hit the shelves this week, featuring 240 glossy pages of luxury fashion themed editorial and advertorial. We speak to editor in chief Michael McHugh about the market for international luxury brands in New Zealand and why magazine ads still work.

An new ‘Free The Bid’ initiative is sweeping adland aimed at encouraging agencies to include female directors at the bidding stage for commercials.

Earlier this month, Westpac released the CashNav, an app that tracks payments from an account and groups them into a range of categories. And to spread awareness, DDB has embraced the art of word blending.