AUCKLAND, Today: It was the shining star of the Tokyo Motor Show – but (sadly) Saatchi NZ and Wright PR won’t be running an ad campaign for the Lexus LF-30 Electrified concept in NZ at this stage. Just yet.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Kiwis looking for creative cooking ideas during the lockdown period can download an e-cookbook – a fundraising initiative for breast cancer charity Sweet Louise, created by them and boutique agency Expand PR.

AUCKLAND, Today: Pead PR has strengthened its services across content creation, social media and media relations to meet the marketing shifts in response to Covid-19.

AUCKLAND, Today: Outdoor company QMS (which merged with MediaWorks last year) is using rainbow imagery to lift people’s spirits as they adjust to living in lockdown.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Advertising Standards Authority has named Nanette Moreau as its Complaints Appeal Board chairperson.

AUCKLAND, Monday: “I am in lockdown and I have been eating a shitload of Pringles and watching a fair amount of television,” writes DDB AUNZ CCO Damon Stapleton on his blog.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Ponsonby ad agency Vision Thing and design agency Wield have launched Spreader Stories – a series of animated videos to help NZ’s fight against Covid-19.

SINGAPORE, Monday: The Association of NZ Advertisers and the Comms Council have received global acknowledgement for their work in combatting online harm.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Just over two weeks ago the Pixel Awards judges came together to review the dozens of entries and agree on the best idea.

DEDICATION: “To the immortal memory of John Henrie and Pat Rogie who at Edinburgh in the year of A.D. 1593 were imprisoned for ‘Playing of the gowff and the links of Leith every Sabbath at the time of the sermonses’.