LONDON, Today: Global advertising spend is set to rise next year across all 19 product categories monitored by ad site Warc, culminating in global growth of 6% to $656 billion (NZ$1028 billion – or, if you prefer – NZ$1 trillion!).

AUCKLAND, Today: Parnell-based creative/strategy agency The Business Marketing Group is helping client Wattie’s to reintroduce the classic toastie to a new generation of Kiwis. Scroll down for the full credits (missing from the Stoppress report).

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: NZME’s Radio Hauraki has snared popular radio hosts Jono Pryor & Ben Boyce from MediaWorks’ The Edge, in a move widely seen as a strategy to broaden Hauraki’s demographic footprint and boost ratings to a level commensurate with the iconic status of the station.

AUCKLAND, Today: Finalists in the Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards 2019 have been announced with 115 nominations from a record number of 500+ entries across 37 judged categories.

AUCKLAND, Today: Keynote speakers Tom Goodwin and Rosie Yakob (both based in New York City) will be battling it out at the Great ad:tech Debate in New Zealand next month.

AUCKLAND, Today: QMS has switched on the first digital spectacular of its kind on Auckland’s North Shore with The Takapuna, illuminating Anzac St on the side of the premium Shore City mall.

NEW YORK, Today: Patrick Murphy, joint creative director at Auckland indie ad agency Chemistry, has been invited to judge at the 2020 Echo Awards in Manhattan in November.