AUCKLAND, Sunday: Comedian Alice Snedden – herself a NZTV Awards-winner for Best Comedy Script – has been named to host the 2019 Huawei NZ Television Awards, to be held on Thursday 21 November at the Aotea Centre.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Rock has partnered with QMS to release a series of billboards across Auckland and Christchurch during the station’s annual music countdown, The Rock 1500.

AUCKLAND, Saturday: The latest marketing campaign by the largest Kiwi-owned vaping company is attracting international attention.

AUCKLAND, Today: The call for entries for the 2019 NZDM Awards – labelled this year as Results are Divine – went live this morning.

AUCKLAND, Today: Many NZ magazines recorded good increases in the latest Nielsen magazine & newspaper readership surveys. Some fell – but not by much.

AUCKLAND, Today: New Zealand’s newspapers generally held steady in the latest Nielsen readership report.

AUCKLAND, Today: DDB Group has announced the launch of Tribal Worldwide New Zealand’ putting a name on DDB’s digital department which has over recent years achieved scale and success to rival many standalone agencies.

AUCKLAND, Today: Mobile brand advertising shop Kargo says it is taking a stance in support of local publishers, advertisers and marketers looking for relevance, scale and creativity in the wake of KPEX’s recent closure. 

BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA, Thursday: Auckland’s MDS Adschool students have won three Crystal awards at Ad Stars 2019’s non-professional competition) and another in the Print category.

NEW YORK, Thursday: New Zealand won two Silvers and six Bronzes at the 2019 Clio Awards. Clemenger BBDO and Sweetshop took the Silvers, three of the Bronzes went to Clemenger BBDO, two to Colenso BBDO and one to VMLY&R.