AUCKLAND, Monday: Following a competitive pitch, DB Breweries has appointed disruptive creative agency Motion Sickness to manage all creative for social channels across its suite of international and domestic brands including Heineken, Tiger, Export, Monteith’s, Club Setter, Pure Pirana, Tuatara, Odd Company and Tui.

AUCKLAND, Today: NZME’s Coast audio network has teamed up with independent outdoor media provider Go Media to supercharge “one of the most successful audio promotions – the best song of all-time countdown”.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Independent agency Federation has been appointed lead creative agency for Massey University after a four-way competitive pitch for brand, integrated campaigns and media. The incumbent was FCB.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: “It’s easier to run a business than a country,” reckons Herald on Sunday columnist Paul Catmur in the latest edition of the newspaper.

AUCKLAND, Today: New Zealand’s media agency market returned to its levels of pre-Covid adspend in May following a record 67.4% increase in year-on-year adspend, with the new total now 3.7% above the level seen in May 2019.