AUCKLAND Today: Northcote-based digital marketing agency Pure SEO has appointed Amanda Middeldorp as marketing manager.
Into the future (Updated)
TAUPO, Today: Global event experts, Comexposium, are bringing to New Zealand its recently evolved brand and marketing event, iMedia Future of Marketing Summit NZ.
Waitapu Group announces new leadership in Wellington
WELLINGTON, Today: The Waitapu Group has announced that its Stanley Street business director Sarah Johnson has taken on the role of leading the group’s operations in the Capital.
The Bakery Collective signs AU photographer Dean Podmore for representation in NZ
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: The Bakery Collective NZ has signed Australian photographer Dean Podmore for representation in New Zealand.
Special books spot in exclusive shortlist

CANNES, Today: The Cannes Lions most prestigious award, a Dan Wieden Titanium Lion, has released its shortlist for 2023, with Special New Zealand scoring a spot on the exclusive list.
Nielsen NZ appoints Amanda Lane as new measurement director
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Amanda Lane has joined Nielsen’s New Zealand commercial team as director of media measurement.
Special works with The Glue Society to kick up a stink for Better Packaging Co
AUCKLAND, Monday: To mark World Environment Day, Better Packaging Co have plopped a four-meter-high poo made of plastic pollution on Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach.
Comms Council launches industry-wide carbon reduction framework
AUCKLAND, Today: The future prosperity of our industry rests on a multitude of factors; economic conditions, regulatory frameworks, the ongoing demonstration of effectiveness, to name a few, writes the Comms Council’s Simon Lendrum in his latest CEO Update, posted on their website.
Auckland Transport up for grabs?
AUCKLAND, Saturday: “Huge advertising contract up for grabs,” reads Shayne Currie’s Media Insider column (if you can call a full page – on the favoured right-hand side of a broadsheet A Section – a mere column!).
Speight’s and DDB toast mateship in new campaign
AUCKLAND, Sunday: DDB Aotearoa has released the latest iteration of the Good on Ya Mate platform, The Speech – a “touching” campaign that celebrates modern mateship and the challenges that come with putting our feelings into words.