AUCKLAND, Today: Tickets have gone on sale for the 2019 IAB NZ Digital Advertising Awards – a record year with double the number entries (and categories up from 17 to 23).

AUCKLAND, Today: QMS has continued its momentum lighting up Parnell with The Strand, the latest addition to its digital network capturing audiences in the CBD.

AUCKLAND, Today: Despite little marketing to date, NZ company VideoTaxi says it has already signed up more than 20 leading Kiwi corporates – all of whom want better video – and is looking to expand internationally.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Getty Images has issued an agency-wide invite to its Creative Insights Event this Wednesday (14 August, 6-9pm) at The Glassworks in Ponsonby.

SINGAPORE, Thursday: Damon Stapleton, Kim Ragan and Zia Mandviwalla have been named to represent New Zealand on Spikes Asia juries next month. The Spikes have already named former FCB NZ media director Anna Chitty (now ceo at PHD China) as president of the 2019 Media jury.

AUCKLAND, Today: United Media Solution (UMS), the leading Chinese digital marketing agency in NZ, has joined global independent agency network Affinità as its China agency partner.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Marketing Association has announced the launch of its first-ever Women in Marketing event – to be held at the Cordis Auckland on Tuesday 22 October, from 12 noon to 4.45pm.

AUCKLAND, Today: FCB is celebrating its wins this year at Axis (Creative Agency of the Year) and the Beacons (Most Awarded Media Agency) with a Double Banger campaign of its own, running at Auckland Airport and across OOH, Dom Post print, Stuff, Herald print, and Herald online.

“The planets and stars don’t always align like this, but it’s no co-incidence,” said FCB PR chief Angela Spain.

AUCKLAND, Today: MediaWorks has challenged M+AD’s assertion that Radio Hauraki is New Zealand’s number one music station with males.