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.

HAMILTON, Today: “The debate raged for about two minutes,” writes Graeme Blake of Waikato-based creative indie Blutui. “Do we take the plunge and revisit Cannes Lions, the event that changed forever our direction as a business in 2018?

LONDON, Today: Seven New Zealand entries have made the WARC Awards for Effectiveness 2023 (in association with The Lions), announced overnight.  Scroll down for the full shortlist (New Zealand work is underlined).