AUCKLAND, Thursday: Most monthlies recorded small readership increases in the latest Nielsen survey period (Q4 20 – Q1 21). Avenues, Deals On Wheels, Motorhomes, NZ Gardener, Lifestyle Block, Horse & Pony, Reader’s Digest, and House & Garden were up.

CANNES, Thursday: Special Group AUNZ has picked up a Bronze Lion for Tourism New Zealand Good Morning World, in the Mobile Lions category.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Australian broadcaster Sports Entertainment Network has lined up NZ cricket stars Brendon McCullum and Ian Smith to front its New Zealand sports radio station SENZ, with a launch planned for next month.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: NZME has partnered with search engine optimisation company Pure SEO, aiming “to provide Kiwi advertisers with expert advice and tools to improve their ranking” on search results pages.

AUCKLAND, Today: Fergus Job Software has – without a pitch – appointed full-service Freemans Bay indie Republik to manage its business here in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.

CANNES, Wednesday: Seven ads from New Zealand have made the shortlist stage of the Cannes Film Lions. Saatchi & Saatchi has three, and one apiece went to DDB, Colenso BBDO, Clemenger BBDO and Special Group.

NEW YORK, Today: The One Club’s Young Guns 19 – a global, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that celebrates young creatives – has named one Kiwi for its jury.

AUCKLAND, Today: A new talent and content agency – an offshoot of Auckland PR agency Undertow Media – has put down its roots in Grey Lynn.

AUCKLAND, Today: Magazine readership is up strongly in Nielsen results released this morning – and a separate retail report shows Kiwis are buying more local magazines. 

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: “So, as we marketers contemplate a second year of a global pandemic and beyond, do we see only trouble ahead or is this perhaps an opportunity to change the conversation?” asks DDB Aotearoa chief strategy officer Rupert Price, writing in an article just posted on the Comms Council website.