AUCKLAND, Today: NZ artists – with public-spirited support from oOh!media, Trade Me, and Grey Lynn-based PR shop Public Library – are helping raise funds for Youthline and NZ artists in a week-long auction starting this morning (Friday 5 June).

CHRISTCHURCH, Today: A *Ferrymead-based advertising agency has launched a new fund to help support companies to bounce back from the impacts of Covid-19.

NEW YORK, Today: The death of George Floyd has inspired some powerful creativity in the US overnight. WARNING: These images (above) of weeping children will break your heart.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Digital Twin, the boutique interactive division of award-winning Newmarket-based creative studio Kaleidoscope, has created a new, fully interactive 3D online tool for Invercargill-based boat builder Stabicraft. 

CHRISTCHURCH, Today: Phantom Billstickers are teaming up with Big Street Bikers to launch New Zealand’s first public infrastructure double-sided digital screen network – Locky Docks.

PARIS, Last Night: NZ media giants Stuff and NZME shared the honours at the 2020 Global Media Awards, each taking out one of 10 regional wins.

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Sixty-four people work at Wunderman Thompson NZ – but not one of them is authorised to talk to media. All official agency business comes out of WPP AUNZ’s head office in Sydney, and the agency operates for all the world as if NZ was Australia’s 7th state.

AUCKLAND, Today: New Zealand’s media industry has felt the full consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the economy in April, with reduced business confidence driving a 37.9% decline in adspend to $50.1 million.