AUCKLAND, Today: Integrated creative agency Crave Global has created a summer brand awareness drive for Bombay Sapphire that encourages consumers to explore their inner creativity.

CAPETOWN, Today: South African Tourism is inviting media and advertising agencies to submit proposals in a bid to be appointed as a preferred service provider, to render media and advertising management services within Australia and New Zealand.

SYDNEY, Today: To celebrate its 125th birthday and the enduring power of cinema, Val Morgan has unveiled its new cinema ident in alignment with its brand positioning, ‘Making Messages Memorable’. 

AUCKLAND, Today: Altis Consulting holds its Data4Good Conference on Princes Wharf next week, with unethical data use – and what to do about it – high on the agenda.

AUCKLAND, Today: Phantom Billstickers has awarded Republik Comms with a gratis $5000 street poster campaign – reward for the feedback the agency provided over the upcoming Melanoma NZ campaign.

BOSTON, Thursday: Reebok – represented in NZ by Drum Auckland – is to unify under one brand logo and wordmark, leveraging its most recognisable assets – the Vector logo and ‘drop-R’ wordmark.

AUCKLAND, Today: The NZ Herald reporter Claire Trevett – whose work has previously been questioned by M+AD – did another slack job in her backgrounder this morning on new National Party wannabe Christopher (“call me Chris”) Luxon.

NEW YORK, Thursday: Last night’s D&AD Impact Awards were a New Zealand-free zone – D&AD’s Amelia Walker confirmed to M+AD this morning that no NZ entries were among the winners.

AUCKLAND, Today: “I feel fortunate to be at an agency that offers a generous paid parental leave programme, phased return to work and flexible hours,” says Saatchi & Saatchi NZ head of PR & social (and mother to a one-year-old daughter) Isobel Kerr-Newell.