LONDON, Today: WPP is merging Wunderman and J Walter Thompson to form Wunderman Thompson, the global agency giant announced overnight (via an interview published in Campaign UK).

AUCKLAND, Today: Stuff has unveiled a media partnership with Bauer Media Group, which will see the news organisation publish content from Bauer’s premium current affairs and lifestyle titles on Stuff.

AUCKLAND, Today: Shout has forged a street poster contract with Vector, providing the out-of-home company with another 25 poster sites in the Auckland market.

AUCKLAND, Today: TVNZ – in partnership with Starcom, billboard company QMS, and Auckland Transport – set out to turn a typically mundane daily task (“from Drab to Fab”) with the arrival of TVNZ OnDemand’s locally commissioned show – The House of Drag.

AUCKLAND, Today: The 2018 Fair Go Kids Ad Awards screen tonight at 7.30pm on TVNZ 1. This year’s challenge was to make a 30-second tourism ad. There were two categories – Primary/Intermediate and Secondary, with prizes in each category.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Commercial team at NZME has developed a new role to better meet the needs of advertisers. Paul Hancox, previously head of revenue, is stepping up into the new role of head of customers & revenue, across both agency and direct clients.

AUCKLAND, Today: Earlier this month, TV1’s Dan the Weatherman ran a series in which he talked to Effie NZ 2018’s international judge Mark Earls about why the top 8 campaigns deserved to win Gold at the 2018 Effies.

AUCKLAND, Today: Now into its second year, Bauer NZ’s Next Women in Media scholarship provides $10,000 for the winning entry to further her career in media.

KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday: Geometry NZ, Ogilvy’s shopper and brand activation agency, has won the Best Campaign in New Zealand category at the Six Dragons marketing awards in Malaysia.