NZ, Today: King’s Birthday weekend already? Yep – but just about all stores, bars, and entertainment precincts will remain open.

AUCKLAND, Today: The winners & finalists at the NZ Radio Awards announced last night included … The Breeze, The Rock, ZM, NewstalkZB, The Hits, RNZ, The Edge, More, Radio Hauraki, Today, ACC, Mai, Radio Dunedin, Coast/iHeart, Love It Media, Rova, Tahi FM, Planet, Wellington Access Radio, Access Radio Taranaki, Plains, Treehut, Tarana, George, NZME, Sun, Gold Sport, Loudmouth, MediaWorks, Radio BOP, and Pacific Media.

WELLINGTON, Today: Travellers through Wellington Airport this morning are being captured by a giant troll wreaking havoc on the departure boards in New Zealand’s first foray into 3DOOH.

AUCKLAND, Today: This week at the Due Drop Events Centre in Manukau, Skills Group, and the Ministry of Social Development partnered for the first time to deliver a large-scale job fair involving 80 large private and public sector employers and 2000 registered attendees.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Stuff owner Sinead Boucher has stepped aside as ceo, amid a management reshuffle – including the appointment of three new managing directors to lead the publishing giant’s major business arms.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: The Monkeys NZ senior creative/art director Liz Richards and dentsu Media NZ chief product officer Richard Pook are among the digital experts who will make presentations at the upcoming Marketing Association Digital Day Out in Auckland.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Villa Maria, working with Federation, this week launched its biggest global brand campaign, to recruit more wine lovers to its award-winning Marlborough sauvignon blanc.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: The Comms Council reports that all tickets for the 2023 Beacon Awards (with oOh!media) have “officially” sold out. Communications manager Axl Arthur said: “There has been a tremendous amount of interest resulting in all available tickets being snapped up.