AUCKLAND, Friday: Radio NZ and TVNZ have become a merged entity called Aotearoa NZ Public Media, according to a report by Daniel Dunkley in online news service Business Desk.

LONDON, Today: Graphic designer Russell Hooton-Fox – of leading Māori-owned, independent creative agency Run – has been nominated for the Design Week Rising Star Award in the UK for 2022. The award recognises a design industry star who has been in the industry for up to three years.

CANNES, Today: New Zealand, with nine Lions, came 14th equal in the country table when the final medals were tallied on Friday. Australia (17 Lions) was ranked 11th. The US was by far the dominant force, with 231 Lions, followed by Brazil (69), and the UK (63).

AUCKLAND, Friday: Swedish global oatmilk producer Oatly has launched a new campaign, It’s like milk, but made for humans campaign, in New Zealand. The creative for the campaign is out of Oatly’s in-house Department of of Mind Control, with media by PHD NZ.

LONDON, Friday: Colenso BBDO won a Grand Prix in the Sustained Growth category of the WARC Awards for Effectiveness 2022.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Along with the rest of Aotearoa, M+AD Daily will be celebrating for the first time Matariki – the start of the new year in this part of the world – tomorrow (Friday 24 June).

AUCKLAND, Today: MediaWorks has joined JCDecaux and oOh!media as a shareholder in audience measurement platform Calibre.

CANNES, Wednesday: Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, a week of big ideas, big stars and big boats. This is the place the ad industry comes to flex its creative and intellectual muscle. Great ideas that have just been made are evaluated by industry experts and if deemed worthy, are handed a small polished Lion.

AUCKLAND, Today: In a recently launched campaign, Dentsu Creative, and Sweetshop’s Damien Shatford have delivered an entertaining look at new streaming brand, TVNZ+.