This year’s MMS Programmatic Summit – to be held in the Maritime Room in Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour from 8.30am to 6pm on Wednesday 20 September – aims to unlock the secrets of programmatic marketing, putting it into simple language and provide simple strategies to help for the marketing mix.

Campaign Asia Pacific will hold the Australia/New Zealand regional division of its 2017 Agency of the Year Awards in Singapore on Thursday 14 December.

The big annual Auckland talkfest that is ad:tech has extended its early-bird tickets offer to Friday 11 August, holding the price at $629 (it will eventually rise to $699).

By Joanna Hunkin: Do not. I repeat do NOT watch Designated Survivor. Netflix has been recommending I give it a go. It stars Kiefer Sutherland … how bad could it be? The answer is very, very bad. It starts off implausible and gets more ridiculous from there, veering between painfully earnest and comically obvious.

Recognising the “epic advantage of collaboration” across their specialist skills and services, four Taupō businesses – The Business Studio, Good Graphic Design, Resonate Marketing and MediaSolve – came together as a single agency at a brand relaunch at the Millennium Hotel Taupō last week.

The deadline is closing in for the 2017 London International Awards, to be held this year in Las Vegas from Wednesday 4 October to Saturday 7th. The entry deadline is Monday.

Auckland patent attorneys James & Wells – affectionately known in the NZ food & beverage business as JAWS – have enlisted Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu to create a print campaign to spread the word on the work their clients and partners carry out behind the scenes.

The beginnings of a revolt have emerged against the (unavoidably) sexist nature of an image circulated widely around the media by new Auckland agency Socialites – a pic of the agency’s action team of four eye-catching blondes plus their client (also a blonde).

Saatchi & Saatchi has appointed Amanda Chambers to the new role of head of digital and content at the agency in Auckland.

Programmatic Marketing? The Marketing Association will attempt to address that question – and all it entails – at a full-day course to be held in Auckland in September.