AUCKLAND, Today: DDB’s CRM arm Track Aotearoa has appointed Matt Jarman to the newly created role of head of analytics & insight. He joins Track from Caci London where he was director of data, insight & visualisation for 14 years.

AUCKLAND, Today: Headline in this morning’s NZ Herald: Packer’s Pecker in Pickle over Ploy for Pampered Punters.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: “Television’s randomly curated running anthology of the human condition, reflecting back the madness and marvels of life lived minute-to-minute here on planet Earth, is still the place to be.”

AUCKLAND, Sunday: “The reality is you can do as much as you like on social media but there’s only a certain amount of people on there”.

AUCKLAND, Today: Local indie Hello has helped launched a new Breast Cancer Cure campaign – with a little help from friends at NZME, MediaWorks, Go Media, JCDecaux, Lumo, QMS, Bekon, Stuff, School Road Publishing, Mindfood, and Shout “and many others”.

AUCKLAND, Today: Digital ad network Scroll Media has signed an exclusive representation agreement with student employment seeker site Student Job Search to offer strategic advertising partnerships.

LONDON, Today: The shift to short-term planning and a fall in campaign spending by advertisers are the biggest global changes from 2019 to 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to UK site Warc.

AUCKLAND, Today: MediaWorks has appointed Cam Wallace as its next ceo. Wallace was previously chief commercial & customer officer at Air New Zealand (since 2001).