As widely predicted, the Radio Broadcasters Association has sidelined TNS and announced a new deal with the Australian arm of Europe-based researcher GfK to be the new provider for the commercial radio survey from 2016.

NZME has announced it will not be renewing its licence with Pacific Magazines to produce New Idea, Girlfriend and That’s Life magazines when it expires on Wednesday 30 September.

New Zealand’s leading communications company, Clemenger Group, announced today it has jumped from Bronze straight to Gold certification by Enviro-Mark for their sustainability programmes across their three major offices.

Otago is better known for its gold than diamonds – but this story is about a Wanaka diamond business which competes against the world’s largest retailers, thanks in part to its innovative digital advertising strategy.

Advertising  & marketing virtuosos Duncan Shand, Peter Cullinane, and Sarah Sandoval front up to the Marketing Association’s Brainy Breakfast in Auckland on Thursday 23 July. The topic: Social Media.

The London Underground has rejected a Rolling Stones poster as “too lewd for commuters”. The Stones are having an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London, and to advertise the gallery, the band created bright, colourful posters with the famous tongue and lips logo wagging from a women’s crotch.

Saatchi & Saatchi NZ has won a CLIO Sports Awards PR Bronze in New York for ASB Bank The Best Ball Boys in the World.

David Hackworthy, the chief strategy officer at Fallon London, has been named Worldwide chief strategy officer of the Saatchi & Saatchi and Fallon networks.