AUCKLAND, Sunday: “Meetings can be hard work in that they stop you from working at all,” wrote Herald on Sunday business columnist Paul Catmur. Hard work, indeed!

SYDNEY, Sunday: Aussie trade rag Campaign Brief reports that Toby Talbot set to return to a Transtasman role after two years at C14TORCE in Spain.

AUCKLAND, Today: M+AD’s Pressies report yesterday inexplicably omitted to mention the Gold won by OMG’s content agency Fuse, in Best Integrated Campaign, for its work with The Warehouse.

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.