Tickets are now on sale for The One Club for Creativity’s long-running Portfolio Night in Auckland, hosted by Droga5 ANZ.

The Monkeys Aotearoa switches to become Droga5 on December 1. Meanwhile, Mark Green, Monkeys co-founder CEO, takes up the role of Droga5 global CEO this month.

Created for Christie’s, Droga5 worked with photographer Nadav Kander to place a hidden camera beneath the Salvator Mundi (a painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi, Savior of the World) by Leonardo da Vinci.

To show off the latest selection of Moto goodies, Motorola and Droga5 in New york have have just made the most complicated film prop of all time.

David Abbott, the Abbott in what was Abbott Mead Vickers and what is now AMV BBDO, once said that “words for me are the servants of the argument and on the whole I like them to be plain, simple and familiar”. He abided by that belief throughout his career, and created some of the world’s best advertising. So after he died over the weekend at the age of 75, Droga5 Sydney paid tribute to him by riffing on one of his best-known pieces of work.

If you’re filled with the Christmas spirit, Coke Zero has just the site for you. It’s the Sweater Generator, where you can create yourself a jersey that will be the envy of yuletide nerds everywhere.

Qantas and agency Droga5 in Australia have created a replica of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity to explore New Zealand and show off different ways Kiwis can use the airline’s Frequent Flyer scheme.

Apparently there’s a lot of porn on the internet. As all the staff at StopPress are pure as the driven snow, we’re not sure if this is true. And we’re also unaware if Hotmalm.com, which takes a unique approach to showcasing Ikea beds, is modelled on the content and headlines of certain adult sites.

Following on from some big changes at Droga5 recently, which said goodbye to its foundation client and one of its founding partners, creative partner Mike O’Sullivan has announced the departure of the brand from the New Zealand market after two and a bit years and the arrival of The Collective, a new creative venture with a central hub of five and a network of contractors to call upon.

The ‘new Telecom’ carries with it a fair bit of baggage, some of it well-deserved and based on its legacy, some of it based on misperceptions and a general lack of understanding about the oft-confusing telco realm. And in an effort to address some of those issues, Telecom has taken the fairly brave step of opening itself up to the masses and launching a new website called www.whytelecom.co.co.nz that’s part PR campaign, part customer service innovation and part public service announcement. And, in quintessential Telecom fashion, it’s gone heavy on the animals.

We broke the story about Andrew Stone leaving Droga5 on Friday to spend more time with his family and do some consultancy work. And that high-profile departure, combined with the recent loss of its foundation client ASB to Saatchi & Saatchi, led to a fair bit of speculation that Droga5 was in a bit of trouble. But Mike O’Sullivan, who has stepped up to fill the leadership role, says the doors are still well and truly open and, with a few new clients and a new management team, the agency is poised for growth.