AUCKLAND, Friday: The Goat Farm’s Media + Marketing Meetup is back for 2023 with another agenda-free opportunity to “hang out, talk shit and admire the sponsors’ pull-up banners”.

AUCKLAND, Today: Over 250 people across the Auckland advertising industry came together on 2 March to bat & bowl for good at the inaugural UnLtd Big Clash cricket event.

AUCKLAND, Today: The “lovable” George is back with Insinkerator and her family in the next instalment of Bastion Shine’s Genesis Energy’s creative platform, showing its continued focus on renewable energy.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Global tech/money management company Wise has rolled out a new look and feel with a rebrand, via UK agency Ragged Edge. Pead is Wise’s comms and messaging partner for New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Today: The NZ Listener just held its own in the latest Nielsen magazine toplines for Q4 2022 – dropping slightly from 231,000 readers to 229,000. NZ Women’s Weekly and Women’s Day were both up by good margins.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Dominion Post, and Otago Daily Times posted modest readership increases in the latest Nielsen national newspaper report (Q4 2022) from the previous measurement period, while the NZ Herald and Waikato Times had small drops.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: NZME has announced the renewal of its long-standing partnership with the One New Zealand Warriors, as the team returns to its New Zealand base after three years in Australia due to Covid.

AUCKLAND, Today: Despite their differences, social media platforms and out-of-home media are natural soulmates, researchers discovered in a major US study.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Pizza Hut, in partnership with Dentsu Creative NZ, have put out the call for a TikToker wanting to prove to their mum that “content creation can pay the bills”.