Cooper Street Media’s Miles Gandy has launched The Magazine Bureau, which aims to offer a one-stop shop for advertisers across multiple titles.

The NZ Herald, supported by owner NZME’s full stable of radio brands, are combining forces to shine a light on a subject many people find too tough to talk about – New Zealand’s teen suicide rate, which is the highest in the developed world.

NZ-born NSW-based production outfit Goodoil has shot a new spot for Foxtel Australia, which is rebranding to Foxtel Now, a “revamped and re-energised” internet-delivered subscription TV service. 

Auckland PR man Chris Henry, of 818, has confirmed to M+AD that music streaming site Pandora had a team of five based in NZ when the award-winning company shocked the market by pulling the plug in Australasia yesterday.

Written for M+AD by Mike Handes, director of customer success at Marketo: If I’ve learnt nothing else in my career, it’s that customers who are skilled at using your software are a low risk of switching to a competitive solution. This is the most obvious benefit of having educated customers, but there are also additional benefits. The individuals who have built a strong skill set around your software become your internal and external champions, and this can have a benefit to new business opportunities.

Park Road Post Production, the facility behind The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies and countless award-winning commercials, is joining up with New Zealand’s film and digital industry training institutions to offer aspiring Kiwi filmmakers an advanced industry training programme.

Vox Populi – the voice of the people – takes on a whole new meaning this week as the latest version of RNZ’s digital innovation VoxPop is launched.

The London International Awards has issued its call for entries – and with a new Regional of the Year category, it’s almost certain to be very well received in Australia & NZ, as the only two countries in the running for this category’s Oceania section.

Just days after the closure of Pandora’s Australian office – and its role in NZ – the Pandora team was named sales team of the year at Australia’s Mumbrella Awards, winning a standing ovation from the 1000-strong crowd during commercial director Chris Freel’s acceptance speech.

TVNZ has named a young production manager at opposition network MediaWorks as a winner of TVNZ’s New Blood web series competition with her pilot, Oddly Even.