AUCKLAND, Monday: After a competitive pitch process, Ponsonby integrated indie agency YoungShand, has been appointed by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation to manage their creative and media needs. The incumbent, DDB Aotearoa, was not part of the pitch process.

AUCKLAND, Friday: Stuff’s unfolding news coverage of the Delta outbreak has delivered two good days for the site – with the average daily audience surging to 2.11 million unique browsers.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: After 30 years’ building and leading Wellington independent agency GSL Promotus, managing director and co-owner Sigrun Grice has confirmed the sell-down of her shareholding in the agency.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: Paul Catmur – at his dry mediocre best in these two back-to-school clips from today’s Herald on Sunday column (scroll down for the link) …

NEW YORK, Sunday: New Zealand has scored four shortlist places – all to Special Group; three shared with Sweet Shop – at the New York Festivals AME Awards, which celebrate advertising & marketing effectiveness.

AUCKLAND, Friday: The inaugural NZ Podcast Awards has launched today, to recognise the work of independent and professional Kiwi podcast producers across the country and abroad.

TORONTO, Today: Canadian startup Geometric Energy Corporation has announced the production of a 40kg satellite called CubeSat which will hitch a ride aboard a Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX in Q1 of 2022.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: TikTok is expanding its marketing services in NZ with the launch of a new self-serve advertising platform which (according to the blurb) “will allow Kiwi SMBs to easily use TikTok to advertise their businesses”.