AUCKLAND, Monday: The Comms Council and the Association of NZ Advertisers are to take a much closer look at the role played by social media – particularly that of live streaming – in the lead-up to the masacre in Chrischurch last week.

AUCKLAND, Today: Singapore-based ad-tech company Adzymic has expanded to New Zealand, partnering with NZ premium digital media providers Digital Commons to bring their content advertising and dynamic creative solution to market.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: MDS Adschool students Zach Hall & Clementina de Ruiter were the winners of this year’s Google Student Axis, announced at the awards show last week.

AUCKLAND, Today: Our spies tell us we undersold the achievements of Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu on the APAC Effies shortlist – announced yesterday in M+AD (scroll down for the link).

LONDON, Sunday: Colenso BBDO is the 6th best agency in the world, according to The Warc Rankings (successor to the Gunn Report and the Warc 100) released at the weekend.

AUCKLAND, Today: Iconic Kiwi department store Farmers is returning to 99 and the Clemenger Group, following a competitive pitch process which saw specialist customer agency, 99, together with the group’s creative powerhouse Colenso BBDO, awarded the creative and retail business for Farmers.

AUCKLAND, Friday: A terse telephone and email exchange exploded last week between Comms Council chief Paul Head and M+AD ed David Gapes – in which Head said he might “blacklist” the news site unless Gapes apologises for what Head perceived as “threats” to himself and two junior staff.

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SINGAPORE, Today: Three prominent New Zealand agencies have collected a fine swag of shortlists at the 2019 APAC Effie Awards.

AUCKLAND, Today: Fuse & OMD helped Kiwibank bring the nation’s attention to the mental health issues facing the country, and claim they are changing the Facebook landscape with their I Am Hope campaign which supported New Zealander of the Year Mike King’s ‘Gumboot Friday’ event.