TORONTO, Today: The World Out of Home Organisation has launched its new global guidelines for audience measurement, at the WOO Global Congress in Canada.

AUCKLAND, Today: TVNZ OnDemand has rebranded to TVNZ. Designed in-house by TVNZ’s Blacksand, Product and UX teams, TVNZ+ says the rebrand will firmly cement the platform’s position as a comprehensive streaming destination “and much more than the catch-up TV service first launched 15 years ago”.

CANNES, Saturday: The first results – now trickling in from France – confirm that two NZ campaigns have made the shortlists.

AUCKLAND, Today: In Friday’s M+AD story about PHD & Drum winning the Canterbury pitch, we incorrectly stated that Stanley St had been the incumbent agency.

AUCKLAND, Today: PHD Media AUNZ and Drum have won a pitch to bring to life the upcoming Canterbury NZ brand campaign, The World’s Toughest Activewear.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: GroupM NZ has quickly followed up on yesterday’s gender-neutral-paid-parental-leave announcement, with a flexible public holiday’s policy.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Leading independent comms agency Anthem has been named Boutique PR Consultancy of the Year in the PR Awards Asia 2022.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: NZME claims the NZ Herald brand audience is at an all-time high “and OneRoof continuing to go from strength to strength”, according to the latest Nielsen report.

HASTINGS, Today: A new Hawkes Bay-based agency, FizzyPop, was launched in May by Tom Young – former head of digital for Hawkes Bay agribusiness agency Tracta.