BUSAN, Today: South Korea’s premier creative show Ad Stars is making a determined push for NZ’s participation – including emails to M+AD, an appeal for Kiwi jurors (scroll down for the link), and a reminder to Kiwis to get their 2020 entries underway.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Boyd PR NZ is managing the NZ end of a rebrand for online food delivery service Menulog, which aligns it to its parent – food delivery giant Just Eat Takeaway.com Group.

AUCKLAND, Today: Volvo Cars New Zealand has appointed BCG2 to handle its creative and digital business, transitioning from incumbents Republik, and kicking off with new work during the lockdown.

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Facebook put on an upbeat presentation to global advertisers yesterday – the same day clothing chain Eddie Bauer, film distributor Magnolia Pictures and the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream brand announced that they would stop advertising on the platform through July.

NEW YORK, Wednesday: DDB NZ and Colenso BBDO have tied for The One Show 2020 Pacific Regional Agency of the Year title, announced overnight.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Emerson’s and DDB New Zealand are today launching the country’s first major activation campaign since March – Tiny Pub. 

AUCKLAND, Today: Lumo marketing manager Hamish Smith writes: “Thanks for publishing the Up & Running release – but we just realised we didn’t acknowledge the other agencies who came on board to help – could you please add the below to the article?

CANNES, Wednesday: The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity has named Colenso BBDO as the Pacific Agency of the Decade.

BUCHAREST, Tuesday: Cheil Romania ECD Mihai Gongu has chosen Colenso BBDO’s WWF NZ Lockdown lasts a Lifetime the best out-of-home ad in the world last week.

AUCKLAND, Today: The out-of-home industry has united through the Outdoor Media Association to take an active role in minimising exposure of restricted messaging to children and young people through the industry Placement Policy.