SYDNEY, Thursday: M&C Saatchi Australia has appointed former Colenso BBDO CSO Emily Taylor as chief strategy officer. Taylor’s appointment rounds out the agency’s leadership team, and will see her partner with group MD Russell Hopson and CCO Cam Blackley.
Mastering the Creative Brief
AUCKLAND, Today: The Marketing Association has engaged MDS AdSchool programme leader Kate Humphries to conduct a one-day Mastering the Creative Brief workshop.
North Face

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Phantom Billstickers reports business on the streets in the north continues “more or less” the same as before – despite the lockdowns.
Science Meets Art

AUCKLAND, Today: Charlie’s – maker of juices, quenchers, coolers and smoothies – has selected Special Group’s design team to refresh their brand.
Korea Beckons
BUSAN, Wednesday: Colenso BBDO CCO Levi Slavin and DDB CD Rory McKechnie have been selected as finals jurors for the Ad Stars 2020 Awards.
Making Waves
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: MediaWorks has appointed Chris Lloyd as head of radio promotions, integration & events, a new role designed to improve the capability of each business stream while driving performance, idea innovation and creation of best practices that will align the three teams.
22 lay-offs at oOh! AUNZ
SYDNEY, Tuesday: In response to challenging economic conditions created by Covid-19, oOh!media has announced 22 redundancies across the business in NZ and Australia.
Wisdom & Virtue

LONDON, Today: D&AD has announced plans for a virtual ceremony to celebrate the 2020 D&AD Pencil winners. Taking place on Thursday 10 September (at 6pm BST; 5am NZ time) and designed by Studio Dumbar, the ceremony will spotlight winning work from the past year in place of the physical ceremony.
Lockdown time-warp
AUCKLAND, Today: The IAB has released its latest 2020 Digital Advertising Revenue Report, providing snapshots of H1 2020 and Q2 2020 along with trends, to provide a contextual overview of the New Zealand digital advertising market.
Brain Science
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: CBD-based behavioural agency NeuroSpot has tapped into the wonders of neuroscience to optimise the performance of Trustpower’s We’ve Got The Time campaign.