AUCKLAND, Today: Total digital advertising revenue in New Zealand continues to climb, reaching over $400 million for the first quarter in 2021, and achieving 28.7% growth on the same period in the previous year.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: New Zealand King Salmon has extended its long-established relationship with full-service Freemans Bay indie Republik to lead and manage its social media and other holistic media activity in the United States.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Auckland indie agency Motion Sickness has won the full Energy Online business after a competitive pitch. The incumbent was Contagion.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: JCDecaux New Zealand has unveiled a new social impact initiative – a partnership with youth mentoring charity, The Crescendo Trust of Aotearoa.

AUCKLAND, Today: JCDecaux is preparing to launch two striking new digital large format sites at leading retail & lifestyle destination, Westfield Newmarket.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Aeroplane Music Services is about to celebrate a new milestone – a decade as one of New Zealand’s leading music licensing experts.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Lumo Digital Outdoor has appointed a new independent director to its board, former Colenso BBDO MD Scott Coldham, whose tenure saw the agency became one of the most successful creative shops in the world.

LONDON, Tuesday: Tesla, TikTok and Pinduoduo are the quickest growing global brands, according to data from Kantar BrandZ, published by UK news site WARC.

AUCKLAND, Today: What does the recent news from Google about delaying the end of third-party cookies mean for the NZ industry? M+AD put the question to Verizon Media head of data (and co-chair of the IAB Australia Data Council) Dan Richardson …