AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Phantom Billstickers is putting its weight behind Adrien Taylor & Mark Townsend, the creative entrepreneurs behind Christchurch brand agency Not Another.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: The NZ media market again felt the full consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the economy in May, with the economic slowdown being reflected in another record decline in national marketer adspend of 37.8% to $54.1 million.

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Australia has dumped the kangaroo, and chosen the yellow wattle as its new national logo – to the delight of comedy-loving Aussies, who believe it looks like the Coronavirus.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council is offering free 12-month membership to any individual made redundant from a member agency.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council had to overcome a series of offshore bureaucratic difficulties before finally posting a 2020 Effie entry link on its website (scroll down).

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Newton-based Hustle & Bustle, which describes itself as a “PR/brand experience agency”, has been appointed as the agency partner for LVMH’s Moët Hennessy New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Today: Denizen magazine – one of the few classy glossy titles left in the wake of the Bauer desertion – has just released its first post-Covid issue, a remarkable 264-page read.

“I started as an independent publisher in 2008 and have been the sole director, 100% owner and ringmaster ever since,” publisher/editor Claire Sullivan-Kraus told M+AD.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Effies open for entry tomorrow (scroll down for the links). “We almost didn’t have an Effie Awards programme this year,” emails the Comms Council’s Nathasha Galloway.

NEW YORK, Monday: Two NZ creatives are among the 13 APAC creatives – themselves part of the global jury of 88 creatives from 25 countries announced for Next Creative Leaders competition, run jointly by The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement.