AUCKLAND, Monday: The Public Relations Institute of New Zealand has announced the key dates for the 2020 PRINZ Awards – and entries are now officially open.

CHRISTCHURCH, Today: The lack of representation for NZ women at the head of small and medium-sized businesses has seen the launch of a stirring new campaign by Wellington creative shop Double Denim and Christchurch’s The Agency PR – for leading tech company MYOB.

LONDON, Saturday: WARC predicts that NZ adspend in 2020 should reach $NZ2.61 billion – a modest rise of NZ$23.4million (scroll down for the PDF, which predicts adspend across individual NZ media).

AUCKLAND, Today: Ex-marketing-professor-gone-rogue Mark Ritson is back in the headlines today, with details of a new Comms Council course and Bauer Media’s filmed version of his Auckland address last week.

AUCKLAND, Today: The print editions of NZ’s magazines & newspapers are holding up – despite the onslaught of digital media, according to the latest Nielsen Q4 topline results.

AUCKLAND, Today: Former Saatchi & Saatchi NZ CCO Toby Talbot is returning to the DDB network as chief creative officer for C14TORCE, the SEAT-dedicated agency in Barcelona.

AUCKLAND, Today: TVNZ reported EBITDAF of $26.3 million for the six months to 31 December 2019 – $0.5 million (2%) above the previous year.

AUCKLAND, Today: McDonald’s with agency partners Track NZ were the big winners at the 2019 NZ Direct Marketing Awards, hosted last night by the Marketing Association.