MediaWorks is bringing together the national direct sales teams across its TV, radio and digital divisions for the first time in the company’s history.  And to run it, the company has promoted Director of Radio Sales & Branded Content Paul Hancox to the new position of Commercial Director, MediaWorks Radio & TV.

.99 has won the FIFA U20 Soccer World Cup account after a competitive pitch against unidentified agencies. .99 managing director Ben Goodale this morning confirmed the appointment, and will announce details later in the week.

Advertising photographer Simon Harper writes: “As much as I love photographing cars my other passion is environmental portraiture, so I finally got to get my old Red Band gumboots dirty on location in Wellsford – as any reason to get out of Auckland is fine with me.

New Zealand Post and its wholly owned subsidiary Kiwibank have unveiled plans to bring their media accounts together under one agency roof. A number of unknown shops are now pitching for the new combined account.

FCB’s Kelly Lovelock & Hywel James took out the 2014 Grande Orca for the best radio ad in 12 months.

Fairfax Media has today unveiled the structure of its new single national marketing team – and the people who’ll be running it.

TV advertising has shown consistently demonstrated the highest ROI of any form of advertising in recent years, despite the growth of digital media and the impact of recession, according to a new analysis.

TV3 has appointed Amy Prebble to the new role of Senior Publicist – News & Current Affairs. This is a part-time position reporting into TV3 and FOUR Publicity Manager Jacqui Loates-Haver, responsible for publicising TV3’s News & Current Affairs programmes and people.

Entries for the 2014 TVNZ NZ Marketing Awards close next Friday 23 May at 5pm. But the Marketing Association is offering the alternative of a late entry that pushes the deadline back by one week.