AUCKLAND, Thursday: Newmarket-based indie media agency has engineered a takeover by Wendy’s restaurant chain of the Drive show of NZME radio network Flava, effectively owning the network’s ‘hunger zone’ between 4pm and 6pm.

AUCKLAND, Today: Boutique retail media owner Hypermedia has repackaged its national media network to offer brands unique access to holidaying audiences this summer.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Magazine Publishers Association has signed a panel of high-achieving indie publishers & journos for its upcoming seminar, The New Mags, in just 10 days.

PARIS, Wednesday: The Epica Awards – the only global ad show judged by journalists (including M+AD ed David Gapes) – has extended its entry deadline to Monday 16 November.

AUCKLAND, Today: The AUT Ad School holds its end-of-year show in three weeks – on Tuesday 24 November, bringing to a close a year that saw dozens of students learning the craft from the discomfort of their bedrooms.

AUCKLAND, Today: Hungry for human contact and free dumplings in equal measure, 100+ Auckland marketers and media types recently took up The Goat Farm’s invitation to attend the second Marketers+Media Meetup #MMMU.

AUCKLAND, Today: Environment Canterbury has appointed MediaWorks’ QMS as its bus media partner, granting exclusive media rights across Christchurch’s entire bus fleet following the completion of the public transport operating model changes in 2020.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: NZ’s media industry has reported a larger decline in adspend in September – but only due to the prior year featuring abnormally high Rugby World Cup ad revenues – with the market improvement already continuing in October, according to SMI.