AUCKLAND, Monday: After just 21 months in business, Ponsonby-based ad tech/creative indie We Are Frank has partnered with global ad marketing platform Amobee. 

AUKLAND, Monday: Media Design School students and recent graduates received significant recognition at the Best Design Awards on Friday – for their designs that assist people with a disability travelling on public transport; the creation of an urban kauri forest experience during Conservation Week; and a design-led solution to attract volunteers to the Auckland Art Gallery.

WELLINGTON, Monday: The Dominion Post is joining forces with Breast Cancer Foundation NZ this week to raise awareness of the foundation’s annual street appeal on Friday and Saturday.

AUCKLAND, Friday: The NZ Design Institute has awarded three Black Pins – their highest honour – to master carver Clive Fugill, legendary brand designer Annie Dow and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare.

AUCKLAND, Today: Stuff has appointed Candice Robertson as head of communications – effectively, a new fulltime role (previously contracted out).

AUCKLAND, Friday: Renowned former Saatchi & Saatchi creative Tom Eslinger – a NZ CD at Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand (subsequently going on to become Saatcchi’s New York-based global CD – has announced the launch of UnLshd in New Zealand and Australia.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has pulled in a prominent NZ-based employment lawyer to help answer a question that has many scratching their heads – what to do when prominent employees leave.

SYDNEY, Friday: New Zealand’s media agency market looks set to sustain the current period of higher advertising demand at least until the end of CY2019, new Standard Media Index forecasts show.

AUCKLAND, Today: NZ’s longest-standing and largest advertising tech event returns to Auckland at AUT on Thursday 14 November.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: US-based performance marketing business Rakuten Marketing has launched the second edition of their APAC State of e-Commerce report, revealing some surprising insights into online purchasing habits in the region – including NZ.