AUCKLAND, Today: “PR peeps – cancel your plan for the weekend,” says Alice Hsueh, comms advisor for Monday’s PRINZ Awards.

WELLINGTON, Today: The Commercial Communications Council has launched a Wellington extension of First Five Rungs (FFR) support group for millennials – and announced its first event (titled Your First Five Years).

AUCKLAND, Today: Colenso BBDO and film company Assembly have created an Amnesty International ‘audio badge’ – The Sound of Unity – for today’s International Women’s Day.

SINGAPORE, Thursday: With a view to simplifying its business and giving its leaders a greater degree of autonomy, Dentsu Aegis Network has put in place a new structure for the Asia-Pacific region, reducing the number of regional clusters from five to three.

SINGAPORE, Today: To celebrate International Women’s Day, Campaign Asia-Pacific has asked four of last year’s winners of its Women Leading Change Awards – including PHD NZ chairperson Louise Bond – how they felt the gender diversity agenda had moved on.

WASHINGTON, Today: In a scene likely worth millions of dollars in free advertising, President Donald Trump displayed a spread of burgers from some of the country’s biggest fast-food chains inside the State Dining Room of the White House yesterday as hungry football players looked on.

AUCKLAND, Today: Workplaces are being called on to take a hard look at unconscious gender bias and make simple, thoughtful, positive changes as International Women’s Day on Friday 8 March rallies global – and NZ – businesses with a campaign that urges women to #balanceforbetter.

LONDON, Last night: Special Group has been named the third Most Effective Independent Agency in the World, as the Warc Effctive 100 survey continue to filter through from the UK.

AUCKLAND, Today: A challenging 2018 media market has not been able to halt the New Zealand outdoor sector’s continuing revenue growth.

SYDNEY, Today: Sleep mattress company Koala has had its Nöfnideä? billboard, which was placed metres down the road from rival furniture company Ikea, cleared of inappropriate language by the Aussie Ad Standards Board, according to a report in Australian newssheet Mumbrella (scroll down for the link).