AUCKLAND, Today: Air New Zealand has retained its place at the top of the Kantar Corporate Reputation Index for the ninth consecutive year but Mitre 10 and PAK’nSAVE are hot on the national carrier’s heels.

AUCKLAND, Today: There’s nothing like farm life to bring experience true NZ rural creativity – as demonstrated beautifully by this image, snapped at Fieldays by an alert adman.

AUCKLAND, Today: Are Media NZ, the publisher of Woman’s Day, New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, New Zealand Listener, Your Home and Garden, and Kia Ora, has announced strong growth in readership for its portfolio in the Nielsen Q1 2023 results.

SYDNEY, Today: The nightly burden of picking what to watch on TV now costs us 24 minutes per week. To put that into perspective, we’re spending over 100 days of our lives trying to decide what to watch – and even then many of us will give up or go to bed. 

AUCKLAND, Today: The Marketing Association has booked four of NZ’s best-known creative stars for its Brainy Breakfast in August. Their topic – Bring the Dead Back to Life with Creativity and Humour … What It Takes to Be Bold, Brave, and Creatively Daring.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Freemans Bay-based architectural rendering studio One to One Hundred, has changed its strategic direction to reflect a wider market interest, outside the previous architecture focus.

AUCKLAND, Today: World Vision is currently partnering with MBM New Zealand and Vistar Media to use programmatic digital out-of-home (pDOOH) advertising to drive greater awareness around its World Vision 40 Hour Challenge.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Colenso BBDO MD Angela Watson, Spark NZ MD Matt Bain, Google NZ sales chief Simon Laird, and Otterfish NZ ceo Brooke Howard-Smith will take centre stage when the Marketing Association’s popular senior marketers event, Think Again, returns on Tuesday 25 July to The Northern Club.

AUCKLAND, Today: Special PR has launched another campaign with Tourism Fiji named the 40-Something-Getaway – a curated series of holiday experiences designed to turn that middle-aged frown upside down.