AUCKLAND, Today: Four months after the Bauer exit,  North & South is back in business with a new team. Career journalists Konstantin Richter and Verena Friederike Hasel (both from Berlin) put in a bid for the title when it was first offered for sale. Twelve weeks later they were told theirs was the winning offer.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Marketing Association has engaged MDS AdSchool programme leader Kate Humphries to conduct a one-day Mastering the Creative Brief workshop.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Phantom Billstickers reports business on the streets in the north continues “more or less” the same as before – despite the lockdowns.

AUCKLAND, Today: Charlie’s – maker of juices, quenchers, coolers and smoothies – has selected Special Group’s design team to refresh their brand.

BUSAN, Wednesday: Colenso BBDO CCO Levi Slavin and DDB CD Rory McKechnie have been selected as finals jurors for the Ad Stars 2020 Awards.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: MediaWorks has appointed Chris Lloyd as head of radio promotions, integration & events, a new role designed to improve the capability of each business stream while driving performance, idea innovation and creation of best practices that will align the three teams.

SYDNEY, Tuesday: In response to challenging economic conditions created by Covid-19, oOh!media has announced 22 redundancies across the business in NZ and Australia.

LONDON, Today: D&AD has announced plans for a virtual ceremony to celebrate the 2020 D&AD Pencil winners. Taking place on Thursday 10 September (at 6pm BST; 5am NZ time) and designed by Studio Dumbar, the ceremony will spotlight winning work from the past year in place of the physical ceremony.

AUCKLAND, Today: The IAB has released its latest 2020 Digital Advertising Revenue Report, providing snapshots of H1 2020 and Q2 2020 along with trends, to provide a contextual overview of the New Zealand digital advertising market.