AUCKLAND, Today: Comms Council ceo Simon Lendrum last week released his first novel – a 390-page crime thriller called The Slow Roll.

AUCKLAND, Today: NZ design & game development agency Many Worlds has produced (in-house) a trailer for Many Worlds VR – a new social VR platform.

SYDNEY, Friday: AdTECH Australia, now in its fourth year, has partnered with the Outdoor Media Association AU for the annual half-day global conference on August 17.

AUCKLAND, Friday: Media agency OMD NZ has helpfully distributed “an objective” perspective of the numbers in the GFK’s S2 2022 Radio Survey …

SYDNEY, Today: Auckland social enterprise agency Journey Digital, with leading Australian electrical safety innovator Schneider Electric Clipsal, has won a Silver at the Melbourne Design Awards, in the Digital – Expanded Service or Application category, for their FlexSelect platform.

AUCKLAND, Today: The surge in Covid cases in the community and potential impact on the industry of a super-spread event at this time, the Radio Broadcasters Association has regretfully decided that the 2022 NZ Radio Awards will have to be a virtual event.

AUCKLAND, Today: The NZ commercial radio industry has released the S2 2022 GfK radio audience data into the market, showing nearly 3.7 million New Zealanders were listening to radio every week – and over 3.4 million of those listen to commercial radio stations.

AUCKLAND, Today: World Rugby and Rugby New Zealand have appointed Common Ground PR NZ’s Olivia Boswell by to create and deliver an earned media campaign for the forthcoming Women’s Rugby World Cup, to be held in New Zealand in October.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Tickets go on sale today for the 2022 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards – to be held on Wednesday 14 September 14 at Spark Arena Auckland.