Last night, 13 gold Effies were awarded to the country’s most effective marketing campaigns at the 2019 Effie Awards. There, FCB celebrated success, winning the Most Effective Agency of the Year and the Grand Effie for its Pak’nSave’s Stickman work, while DB Breweries was named the Most Effective Client of the Year and saw Sean O’Donnell take out the inaugural Most Effective Marketer

The 2019 Best Awards was held at the Spark Arena on Friday night celebrating the crème de la crème of the design industry. It recognised designers, young and old, for their craft across a range of categories, from graphic to moving image to product design. Most who attended were in agreement that the night was a blast, and resembled the maturing success of the design industry in Aotearoa. Here is a breakdown of the supreme winners.

The 100 finalists for this year’s Effie Awards have been announced and DDB leads the way with 28 mentions, followed by FCB and Colenso BBDO, both on 20.

Colenso BBDO has taken the title of Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year at the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity.

DB Breweries has taken out the Supreme Awards at this year’s TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards for their ‘Reviving a Legend – Tui’s Stepchange Into RTDs’ marketing initiative. Meanwhile, Jo Mitchell from McDonald’s New Zealand was celebrating her Marketer of the Year win and Philip Poole was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.

The 2019 IAB New Zealand Digital Advertising Awards were held last night where MBM was named Agency of the Year and Tianze Yu, Big Mobile campaign manager, won the Grand Prix.

The Commercial Communications Council has announced The Pressie Awards are back for a second year, after launching in 2018 as the PRESCom Awards.

Finalists of the 2019 IAB New Zealand Digital Advertising Awards have been announced and its set to be a big night, with the number of categories increasing on last year’s event and the number of entries more than doubling.

Last night, New Zealand’s PR practitioners gathered in Wellington to celebrate the best in the business at the 2019 PRINZ Awards and it was the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand that was took home the Supreme Award.

Last night, New Zealand’s radio talent stepped out from behind the microphones for the 2019 NZ Radio Awards. The big winners on the night were ZM, judged the Station of the Year – Network, and Mike Hosking, of Newstalk ZB, who once again took home the Best Talk Presenter – Breakfast or Drive.

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.

PR, experiential and social media campaigns are set to be recognised with a new annual PREScom Awards, run by The Commercial Communication Council’s PR, Experiential and Social Media Committee (PREScom).