All marketing and advertising – including creative and media placement – for the new David Jones NZ flagship store in Wellington will be handled by in-house teams at the company’s head office in Sydney. There is, however, a PR shop on the ground in NZ.

Dear Ed,” writes Sophie Randall-Hughes, marketing executive at global ad platform AdRoll – “I wanted to share this great cartoon about AdRoll pulled together by The Foundation Capital.

Semi Permanent Auckland – now just two weeks away – has added workshops, “conversations”, Q&A and poetry to its packed schedule for Friday & Saturday August 12-13.

Ogilvy Vietnam has returned two awards recently won at Cannes Lions after determining that some elements of its Rhino Rescue Project campaign “did not run in-market as stated”.

Colenso BBDO/Proximity ECD Wayne Pick will sit on the executive jury at the 19th Ad Stars Festival to be held in Busan, South Korea, from August 25-27.

Just one month to go for the TVNZ NZ Marketing Awards – at the Langham Auckland on Thursday 1 September. Last year’s was a “sellout event” and the Marketing Association reckons you should get in ASAP.

DDB’s PR arm Mango has helped Christchurch-based K9 Natural dogfood – in partnership with Auckland premium restaurant company Hipgroup – to launch a new promotion labelled Bone Appetit.