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AUCKLAND, Friday: DDB & Track Aotearoa have been awarded the business of New Zealand’s largest farmer-owned rural supplies co-operative, with Farmlands appointing both agencies to lead its brand, creative, and...

AUCKLAND, Sunday: MediaWorks arm QMS NZ plans on making it easier for advertisers to buy premium digital out of home billboards by launching Hivestack’s digital outdoor programmatic platform. Hivestack are a leading...

AUCKLAND, Today: Stanley St chief creative officer Regan Grafton has confirmed rumours that he’s about the leave the agency for new gig. He originally the agency joined 5½ years ago, before Greg Partington bought the...

There are quite a few solid choices for Pinot Noir at Costco right now, and this new Kirkland Carneros bottle is among the better buys in our opinion. It’s hard to find Pinot from Carneros this affordably priced, and...

In 1955, not long after Dave Brubeck became the first postwar jazz musician to make the cover of TIME magazine, Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker’s veteran jazz critic, commented that novels about jazz had become...

Last night, at the 2021 Beacon Awards, a sell-out crowd of 800 of New Zealand’s leading media personalities came together to celebrate for the first time as a big crowd, since 2019, and to acknowledge the industry’s...

Wrath of the Druids, the first major expansion for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, is out now for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Wrath of the Druids brings Eivor’s saga to Ireland, where players will forge alliances with...

Mayor Muriel Bowser made multiple transportation announcements Wednesday that have the potential to affect traffic safety and transit in the District. Among the announcements issued in a press release are: $10...

When HR is given an opportunity to lead through influence, it has a good chance to take a struggling organization and reshape it into a successful one. It takes a little faith on the part of leaders, but the effects can...

[] I never aspired to become a player in New York’s exclusive and incestuous world of “Russian hair” wigs and extensions, where long silky blond tresses sourced from the scalps of young Slavic women are “hairy...

NEW YORK, Today: The One Club for Creativity has opened the call for entries for Young Guns, celebrating international creative professionals age 30 or younger. Young Guns is the industry’s only global,...

AUCKLAND, Today: The Pond, which modestly (but accurately) describes itself as “NZ’s foremost recruitment agency for creative & design, digital & tech, and marketing professionals” is taking recruitment to...

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Off the back of recent new business wins, Mango Aotearoa is expanding with the recent appointments of three new team members. And, says MD Claudia Macdonald, “we’re looking for more”. The...

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: “Facebook’s worst fears have been realised by Apple’s new IOS 14.5 software upgrade, which allows iPhone ad iPad users to opt out of ads that track their online activity,” writes NZ Herald...

Freelancing platform Upwork has unveiled an all-new logo, tagline, and global campaign as part of a major branding overhaul. Both the rebrand and campaign were developed and executed by creative agency, Alto, along...

There are quite a few new vintages of popular Kirkland wines hitting stores right now.  This Chianti is always an interesting find for us that we are anxious to taste but never super excited about. Right off the bat...

LONDON, Tuesday: Marketing budgets are expanding at a rate never seen before, following deep cuts during the initial wave of the coronavirus outbreak in 2020, according to WARC Data’s Global Marketing Index. The GMI...