AUCKLAND, Thursday: North Shore-based digital agency Pure SEO has achieved Premier Partner status in the revamped 2022 Google Partners Programme. The Premier Partner status is awarded to the top performing 3% of Google partners in each country, based on client growth.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Wolf of Wall Street is a Martin Scorsese film telling the story of charismatic, drug-taking financiers and bullshitters in 1980s New York. The latest Phantom Billstickers email flyer tells a story behind the story…

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Facebook owner Meta is set to provide cash grants to 13 New Zealand news publishers as part of its latest digital training programme, reports Daniel Dunkley in online news site BusinessDesk.

AUCKLAND, Today: New Zealand cinema has experienced a scorching summer school holiday season with a sizzling 1.6 million admissions across the summer.

SYDNEY, Wednesday: NZ’s media agency market has emerged strongly from the bruising Covid pandemic in a far stronger state, according to AU-based global number-cruncher SMI.

PARIS, Today: Global ad agency profiler AdForum has recognised two New Zealand agencies for producing some of the best creative work in the world last year – Special Group and TBWA\.

TAURANGA, Today: Grey Lynn-based multidisciplinary creative shop Studio Butter has officially signed with UBCO – a Tauranga bred, global EV bike company – as their lead content agency.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: New Zealand Media & Entertainment has acquired Radio Wānaka and its associated frequencies, continuing its commitment to invest in local content across the regions.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: Former Badger ceo Matthew Masters resigned his M+AD sub at the weekend, to celebrate his exit from the world of “client politics and agency bullshit (as entertaining as those have been for me over the last 26 years).”