AUCKLAND, Friday: Getty Images, in partnership with Dove and Girlgaze*, has launched the latest #ShowUs grant. Designed to support emerging talent, the #ShowUs Grant will award two grants of NZ$7,100 to women, female-identifying and non-binary commercial photographers and videographers from around the world who are using their talents to create inclusive visual stories depicting authentic representations of women relationships.

AUCKLAND, Today: M+AD is about to take a month-long Xmas/New Year break. Our last edition for 2020 is just five days away – this Wednesday 16 December.

HAMILTON, Today: Waikato-based PR & communications specialist Angela March has gone from freelancer to managing director of her own agency, Brainchild.

AUCKLAND, Friday: Vernacular, a small but slightly bigger-thinking non-global provider of moderately successful mind-influencing communication signalling (corporate writing services), today hasn’t announced a slew of innovative services, new learnings, and insights in a pivot to digitally disrupt the new normal.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Today: Coca-Cola’s global & local ad agency rosters – media & creative – are about to undergo a worldwide review that could lead to changes and consolidation in New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is staging the largest exhibition in its history – an opportunity Phantom Billstickers could not resist. “We liked the sound of that. So we got involved,” said Phantom’s Rupert Fenton.

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Thunderhead, a global leader in enterprise technology for customer engagement and real-time journey orchestration, has appointed Kiwi Aarron Spinley as VP ANZ (based in Australia).

LONDON, Today: Wellington & Auckland-based former indie media agency MBM (McCready Bale Media), now part of the Publicis empire, won Bronze at the Warc Media Awards overnight for their client Trade Me.