WELLINGTON Today: Don’t show up for work this Monday … it’s a public holiday. Labour Day recognises ‘the eight-hour day’ – eight hours for work, eight for rest, and eight for recreation.

AUCKLAND, Today: Boyd PR has brought Oscar the rescue chopper to life on the pages of a new story book to help raise funds for the Northland Rescue Helicopter.

AUCKLAND, Today: Ad sector veterans Natasja Barclay and Andy Robilliard have launched Jungle, a ‘creator collective’ of senior independent strategic, creative and production specialists focused solely on delivering short-term projects for NZ organisations.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Outdoor guns QMS & Go Media, with Spark & MediaWorks, have partnered arts collective Shared Lines to showcase art from over 60 artists on the national digital billboard network.

AUCKLAND, Today: Kiwibank and 99 have unveiled a commercial signage project which utilised more than 11,000 recycled single-use plastic bottles, developed in partnership with Neo Signs.

BUSAN (KOREA), Wednesday: Two youngsters from DDB Aotearoa have won Silver at the Ad Stars New Stars competition for junior creatives, picking up US$4000 along the way.

AUCKLAND, Today: oOh!media has unveiled six new digital screens – including a Times Square-style Evoke site – at Kiwi Property’s expanded Sylvia Park shopping centre.

AUCKLAND, Today: The finalists for the 2020 New Zealand Television Awards have been unveiled this morning, with a total of 114 nominations from 570 entries across 38 judged categories.

AUCKLAND, Today: AUNZ ad sales network Scroll Media has forged a deal with global health information giant Healthline Media to offer advertisers display, video and new content offerings across the two sites – Healthline.com and MedicalNewsToday.com.

AUCKLAND, Today: OMD has launched a new campaign for Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency which aims to keep the attitudes of e-scooter riders in check. The main launch vehicles are Newmarket-based Cartel Media’s new toblerones.