HONG KONG, Today: M+AD Daily is to forge a deal with Haymarket Media to be a media supporter of the AUNZ Campaign Asia Pacific 2020 Agency of the Year.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: OMD has been shortlisted in the Emerging Diversity & Inclusion category of the 2020 NZ Diversity Awards – the only comms or media outfit among the 32 finalists.

AUCKLAND, Today: MediaWorks ceo Michael Anderson has this morning announced he will leave the broadcaster at the end of the year. In his public resignation, Anderson gives no hint of where he’s headed next.

NEW YORK, Today: “Dear Ed,” writes The One Club’s Kevin Swanepoel. “The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement have opened the global Next Creative Leaders 2020 competition, and I’m writing to ask if you could help spread the word to up-and-coming candidates in your region. This is an important initiative that will help with gender equality.

AUCKLAND, Today: It took us a while to catch up (mainly because both the NZ agency and client are staying schtum). Quite possibly because they’re as embarrassed as we are by this cheap piece of “creativity” out of the UK.

AUCKLAND, Today: FCB head of data & technology Qassem Naim and Qrious head of data powered marketing Lena Jenkins are among the ad & marketing luminaries speaking at the Marketing Association’s Smarter Data conference this month.

KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday: User privacy and regulation has become a topic of controversy in the past few years. However, it has been largely well received by end-users, who welcome the increased protection of their personal data in the light of increasingly malicious attempts to compromise and disclose such data.

LONDON, Last Night: Oriel Davis-Lyons, the Kiwi creative director (ex Colenso BBDO) at the New York office of Spotify, has been appointed jury chair of the 2020 Cresta Creative Advertising Awards.

AUCKLAND, Today: Vaughn Davis, owner and creative director of Auckland agency The Goat Farm, has published a book for business owners looking for ways forward from Covid-19.