AUCKLAND, Today: Former Saatchi Worldwide ceo Peter Cullinane – now ceo of the revolutionary Lewis Rd Creamery milk brand he founded in 2011 – is a guest speaker at a Marketing Association livestreamed Brainy Breakfast in a fortnight.

AUCKLAND, Today: JCDecaux has harnessed its out-of-home platform for good, featuring a series of campaigns across its NZ large-format digital network to thank essential workers and everyday Kiwis during the Covid-19 lockdown.

AUCKLAND, Today: “What is failure,” wonders DDB AUNZ CCO Damon Stapleton in his latest, imagination-stretching blog …

AUCKLAND, Today: Apologies to Bill Ralston and the late, great Paul Holmes, named by M+AD yesterday as suspects in our coverage of Paul Little’s farewell column in the Herald On Sunday.

AUCKLAND, Today: Steinlager, with help from DDB, has utilised all of its OOH media to commemorate fallen Kiwi and Australian soldiers on Anzac Day.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Radio Broadcasters Association has released a lengthy list of finalists for the 2020 NZ Radio Awards.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: “I have been alarmed to see that disdain for the mainstream media has spread to the mainstream media itself,” writes Paul Little, in his farewell column in the Herald on Sunday.

AUCKLAND, Friday: A tacky take on the classic Star Wars genre has won a big night out for four NZ media agency teams who produced the five winners for Val Morgan’s MCU (Marvel Comic Universe) competition.

AUCKLAND, Today: Lumo and creative agency Pitchblack Partners have launched Up and Running – a nationwide digital billboard initiative dedicated to helping small businesses get back on their feet.

LONDON, Monday: Gaming stands to be one of the few winners in an environment where consumers are confined to their homes – and brands are undergoing a mental shift in the way they think about this channel, according to WARC/AdColony’s Tom Simpson.