High fives for Spark, NZ Post, ANZ, The University of Otago and Power Farming.

Expedia is trying to tempt visitors to Australia by asking its audience ‘how far would you go for the things you love?’ in a 360-video that shows off some of the county’s best views.

The University of Otago is celebrating student life in a new ‘Only Otago’ campaign via Rainger and Rolfe, showing what goes on inside and outside of the classroom.

In the latter part of last year, Spark appointed Shine as its strategic partner and Colenso BBDO as its above-the-line agency as it looked to evolve the brand. Now, after what has been quite a long gestation period, the Kiwi telco has launched its first major brand ad through its new partners.

Rental car provider Europcar and Mercedes-Benz have joined forces to make childhood dreams come true in a unique activation in London.

We’ve had a couple of stories recently about the extracurricular creative pursuits of people in the ad industry. So we thought it only fitting to cover those of Brendan Boughen, a Microsoft PR aficionado by day, cartoonist named Jim by night, who’s on the home stretch of his Pledge Me campaign to fund a book of cartoons and writing about people’s obsession with technology.

With sports teams, we often speak in the possessive, referring to “our team”, “our win” or “our home turf” even though none of those things actually belong to us. Well, BNZ is looking to give the endless stream of possessive phrases some more meaning with a new campaign that allows New Zealanders to claim a piece of the Crusaders’ turf for themselves.

As another year of Cannes comes to a close, we take a look at some of the key moments of the event.

When you play the Game of Thrones “you win or you die” and in the ‘Game of Agencies’ “you go big or go home” according to Indian marketing agency Chimp&Z Inc, which has recreated the hit show in an ad agency.

With Fonterra cutting its payout to farmers, it’s tough times ahead for the rural dwellers. To show its support, Power Farming teamed up with Hamilton agency PAN to create the ‘Pilsner to Paradise’ campaign and bring Fieldays to Hamilton’s CBD in an effort to give something back to farming clients and to provide their salespeople with a fun way of getting to know their clients better.

Phantom Billstickers is taking poetry to the streets to celebrate the late Kiwi poet James K. Baxter’s 90th birthday.

Former Kiwi adman turned full-time artist, Josh Lancaster, will have an exhibition of his artistic wares at the Smyth Galleries on Auckland’s Jervois Road for three weeks from 28 June.