WELLINGTON, Friday: Tourism New Zealand has put its global media planning & buying business up for pitch, and has issued an RFP notice on the Government Electronic Tenders Service (scroll down for the link).

AUCKLAND, Today: PHD Group has appointed Nikki Grafton as chief executive officer for the agency’s operations in New Zealand, which constitutes the full-service media agency as well as Spark PR & Activate.

LONDON, Today: D&AD has added a third Kiwi to the judging panel for its 2019 awards in the UK in May – Designworks ECD Jef Wong.

AUCKLAND, Today: Kingsland-based agency Journey, which yesterday launched its new corporate brand identity, has today upgraded its website from BKA Digital Outfitters. M+AD ran this story yesterday … but got the website address wrong!

SINGAPORE, Thursday: Tourism New Zealand has appointed Digitas Singapore as its digital integrated agency for Singapore and Indonesia – an expansion of a mandate that previously included Digitas being Tourism NZ’s media agency for South East Asia, China and India.

LONDON, Today: D&AD has appointed two Kiwis to the judging panel for its 2019 awards in the UK in May. They are Colenso BBDO CD Maria Devereux, and DDB CD Brett Colliver.

AUCKLAND, Today: Kingsland-based agency BKA Digital Outfitters has launched a new corporate brand identity, Journey, aimed to elevate the business’ focus on digital for the customer journey, and includes a new logo, positioning and website.