NZME is partnering Central Lakes Media to launch easy-listening station Coast in Wanaka this Monday on 94.6FM. Central, which is owned by former Auckland broadcaster Mike Regal, already owns media in the district, including Radio Wanaka.

TVNZ has sent an SOS to production companies and ad agencies about elevated sound levels on online ads submitted for broadcast.

Clemenger BBDO Wellington’s Mistakes campaign for the NZ Transport Agency has won Gold and the Tim Broadbent Prize for Best International Campaign at the IPA Effectiveness Awards in London. The IPA event rewards work that “that demonstrate marketing payback”.

Contagion Auckland has produced a new national brand campaign for the new range of sausages from Premier Beehive – the first Beehive campaign in over a decade.

Tokyo, Nov 4 – Dictionary Films Tokyo executive producer Peter Grasse – a well-known face in the NZ film & advertising sectors – returned to Berlin to talk film craft with music producer Sam Spiegel of California’s Squeak E Clean Productions. 

Independent NZ-owned corporate PR shop Acumen Republik is spruiking Coca-Cola NZ’s latest offering – Coca-Cola Ginger – and told M+AD that Coke would be revealing details of its summer campaign “soon”.

Cinema advertising company Screen Vistas is celebrating a new Government deal by launching new, improved innovative cinema packages targeting the national market.

Mobile is changing the way we shop, and today, Instagram says it’s announcing “an early test to add a rich new layer of shopping to Instagram”.

Clemenger Group’s specialist retail agency 99 has further diversified its offering with the launch of Newsroom, an editorial content marketing service focused on creating engagement and consideration early in a customer’s journey to purchase.