AUCKLAND, Monday: MediaWorks has launched its own dedicated digital marketing services team. MediaWorks commercial director Liz Fraser said: “The introduction of the DMS team means MediaWorks can offer customers a 360 digital solution through one simple contact point.

AUCKLAND, Today: Entries to the 2022 Comms Council Beacon Awards close tomorrow (Tuesday 8 March) at 4pm.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: “If I had rejected creative work once, I was fine with the team coming back to me the next day and asking for a rethink,” wrote business columnist Paul Catmur in the Herald on Sunday.

AUCKLAND, Today: Mango Communications Aotearoa has announced a change in its senior structure, with Sean Brown stepping up as managing director, and group business directors Brianna Elder and Chloe Leuschke promoted to managing partners.

AUCKLAND, Today: Following a competitive pitch, Fire & Emergency New Zealand has appointed Newton-based Motion Sickness as its lead creative agency.

NADI, Saturday: Fiji is on the hunt for global creative, advertising and digital agencies to help with tourism recovery in the island nation.

AUCKLAND, Friday: Indie agency YoungShand has won a competitive creative & media pitch for the Craigs Investment Partners account. The incumbent, Rainger & Rolfe, did not pitch.

LONDON, Friday: WPP, the world’s largest advertising holding company, will be discontinuing all business activities in Russia – in line with the Cannes Lions, which has banned all Russian delegates and entries in the 2022 awards.

AUCKLAND, Saturday: A Weekend Herald headline writer pulls out another rock’n’roll beauty – in a story about McDonald’s quitting Russia to protest the invasion of Ukraine.