AUCKLAND, Today: M+AD’s story Friday about the ghastly StopPress recruitment ad for a new editor caused a stir over the road at Tangible/ICG.

AUCKLAND, Friday: To promote and celebrate Father’s Day for The Warehouse, TBWA\Make concepted a TV series called Last Dad Standing and partnered with Warner Bros. NZ to develop it for TVNZ.

AUCKLAND, Today: Locally-owned outdoor company Go Media has finalised an integration with Melbourne-based Seedooh to provide independent third-party delivery verification of campaigns across their digital assets.

HAMILTON, Friday: Waikato/BoP full-service agency KingSt Advertising has produced – in-house – a sharp video to celebrate turning 21.

AUCKLAND, Today: Marketing news site StopPress is looking for a fulltime editor. Currently, the title is run by Tangible Media’s NZ Marketing quarterly A4 magazine, and appears not to have a permanent editor.

SYDNEY, Today: Special Group New Zealand – with a little help, no doubt, from Special Australia – has made it through to the shortlist of the Australian Effie Awards.

AUCKLAND, Today: The NZ ad agency sector is taking the lockdown message very seriously – with hundreds of staffers working from home while they struggle to help keep their employers and comrades stay afloat.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Sky Network Television has sold its subsidiary Outside Broadcasting Ltd, which films live sports, to global production conglomerate NEP.

HOLLYWOOD, Wednesday: Barbra Streisand has lent her face and voice to a new campaign urging America’s LGBTQI+ community to vote Trump out of office for his “appalling record on gay rights”.