AUCKLAND, Today: Mental Health Awareness Week returns from 12–18 October with a simple message from the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand: belonging matters, and connection cannot wait. This year’s theme, Belonging... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Initiative Aotearoa has handed Alex Pringle a bigger brief, promoting her to Group Business Director and putting her at the helm of specialist content division Initiative Content. Pringle will lead... Read More
AUCKLAND, Thursday: The NZ arm of global ad/media company Verizon Media has opened up its invitation-only talent development programme, Verizon Media Academy, to anyone within NZ media & creative agencies and brand-side... Read More
AUCKLAND, Thursday: The announcement that Bauer Media is closing its NZ operations immediately “should be setting off alarm bells with regulators for the future of local media, if they weren’t ringing already”,... Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Bauer Media Group this morning announced its intention to close its publishing business in New Zealand due to the economic impact of covid-19. The closure brings to an end many... Read More
NEW YORK, Today: As Bauer Media cold-bloodedly gives up on NZ – The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s Group are countering the Covid-19 effect by giving potential clients an additional incentive to... Read More
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Phantom Billstickers’ latest, smart, e-letter gets straight to the point: “When the Government realised it had a serious battle on its hands, it didn’t muck about. Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has made changes to this year’s Beacon Awards schedule – and reports only positive responses to the online judging proposals. Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council is inviting industry practitioners to register for the Google Ads Certification Programme – a free, self-learning programme. Read More
AUCKLAND, Today: Downtown comms shop Anthem has this morning announced its co-founders will assume new roles – Jane Sweeney to executive chair and Carolyn Kerr to managing director. Read More
NELSON, Tuesday: Ben Seleen from the Nelson NZ HQ of global mobile creative outfit Shuttlerock writes. “We take existing creative assets and transform them into mobile optimised videos. (I've followed M+AD for... Read More
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Advertising podcast Truth and Soul Incorporated, created by BC&F Dentsu co-founder/ECD Paul Catmur, is back with two new podcast episodes designed to fill your isolation hours with something other than... Read More