AUCKLAND, Today: A new independent agency, Charm, has been created by Jo Tacon, founder of production and design agency Paragon.Two, and its strategic director, Carren Richardson-Park, who brings a wealth of brand and direct experience, both agency and client side.

Creative agency Run is changing their name to Oma during te wiki o te reo Māori / Māori Language Week, running from today through to Sunday, to champion the language and celebrate the culture and heritage of their creative director and co-founder Raymond Otene McKay.

NEW YORK, Friday: FCB Auckland senior art director Melina Fiolitakis has been named as a finalists in the global Young Guns 16 competition, celebrating international creative professionals age 30 or younger.

AUCKLAND, Friday: NZME has changed the spelling of their titles Wanganui Chronicle, Wanganui Midweek and Wanganui Chronicle Weekend Edition are all changing to include an ‘h’ as in Whanganui.

The call for entries for the 2018 NZDM Awards is now open. This year the Marketing Association is calling for campaigns that take great data insights, intelligent strategy and cut-through creative to magic up a great response.

AUCKLAND, Friday: In recognition of Māori Language Week, the outdoor media industry will display a variety of te reo Māori themed messages on over 280 digital out-of-home sites daily across the country.

The New Zealand Herald has continued to increase its readership year on year according to the latest Nielsen survey released today.

SINGAPORE, Thursday: Twenty-two years of a hugely successful New Zealand partnership have been recognised as the best agency-marketer partnership in Asia Pacific, with a Gold award to Subaru NZ and its agency BC&F Dentsu, in Campaign Asia’s Agency-Marketer Partnership Awards last night.

After overseeing Clemenger Group New Zealand operations as ceo for 10 years, Sydney-based Jim Moser is stepping down to take on a new group role, and is being replaced by a NZ-resident ceo.