PARIS, Thursday: North Shore-based creative agency Yarn picked up NZ’s three finalist spots at The Epica Awards 2021 – all for Tourism New Zealand’s Please Don’t Travel Under The Social Influence.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: NZ print media circulations held up well over the past 12 months, according to the latest year-on-year Nielsen newspaper & magazine topline study. Overall, rises in both sectors outnumbered falls.

HAMILTON, Wednesday: Motion Sickness client, Genesis-owned Energy Online – a one-stop shop for electricity, gas and LPG – is being rebranded to Frank*Energy “to reflect the new direction, offering and attitude it will bring to the market”. 

AUCKLAND, Today: The commercial radio industry released the S4 2021 GfK Radio Audience Data into the market this morning, showing almost 3.7 million New Zealanders were listening to radio every week and almost 3.4 million of those listen to commercial radio stations.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: The Menulog Restaurant Awards have shone a bright light on NZ regional establishments this week – steering clear of the flash big-name city eateries usually associated with agency types.

AUCKLAND, Today: Mango, Special, Drum, The Social Club, Ogilvy, Copper Brand Experiences were the Gold winners at last night’s virtual PR annual show – the PREScom Awards (The Pressies). Special took out the Grand Prix (for Meddle).

AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council is setting up an entry-writing workshop for the 2022 Beacon Awards.

AUCKLAND, Today: CBD indie Hello has launched a nationwide OOH teaser campaign to help MediaWorks promote its new radio talk brand (yet to be named), coming in 2022.

AUCKLAND, Friday: NZ-founded digital comms agency Topham Guerin (offices in Sydney, Auckland, Beijing and London) has won a pitch for the Kea global creative partnership. There was no incumbent.

NEW YORK, Monday: Google, Apple, Samsung, Amazon, and Nestlé led Wunderman Thompson’s list of 2021’s most inspirational brands. Now in its second year, the Inspire Score is the agency’s proprietary diagnostic tool which measures a brand’s inspiration status and uncovers the brand attributes that fuel business growth through their ability to inspire people.