MUMBAI, Thursday: M+AD learned a new word today, courtesy of daily Indian ad-site newsletter Exchange 4 Media. That word is crore (pronounced kraw). It’s a number. A big one – 10,000,000. As in “22 crore Indians saw India-NZ World Cup semi-final”.

WELLINGTON, Today: Porter Novelli managing director Sarah Williams was made a Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand at an awards ceremony in the Capital last night.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Leading data-led marketing consultancy MBM has become the first NZ channel partner for San Francisco customer data company Segment in New Zealand.

PARIS, Thursday: The Epica Awards has added Gender Equity to its range of Public Interest categories for the 2019 edition, which is currently open for entries.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Saatchi & Saatchi has created a new campaign with Zenith for the launch of My Food Bag’s Ready Made Meal range MADE, targeting customers with a series of site and time specific creative across digital outdoor and bus shelters.

AUCKLAND, Today: Towering over downtown Victoria Street West, QMS has updated its landmark digital portfolio with the launch of The Empire, in the heart of the CBD.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Research Association of New Zealand holds its 2019 conference, New Horizons, at the Ellerslie Event Centre, in just three weeks – on Monday & Tuesday 12 & 13 August.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Home grown Kiwi community website Neighbourly has just hit 750,000 members and in just five years has become New Zealand’s second-largest online member community, behind Facebook.

SYDNEY, Today: NZ outdoor exponents Lumo, Shout, VMO, and oOh! will join their Aussie counterparts at the AdTECH: OOH Sydney conference on Wednesday 11 September at Hoyts Broadway.

HAMILTON, Today: KingSt Advertising is celebrating two decades since writer/producer Chris Williams and friends took over the agency (then called Rimmington Advertising) on Thursday 1 July 1999.