SYDNEY, Today: Two large AU/NZ magazine publishers are about to merge, following approval from Australia’s competition watchdog, which has this morning given the green light to Bauer Media’s bid to purchase Seven West Media’s Pacific Magazines.
Slow motion
AUCKLAND, Today: “Blacksand remains open,” screamed the headline in the latest TVNZ email flyer. “Just because you’re locked in, doesn’t mean we’re shut down!
Curse of the curve
LONDON, Wednesday: Melbourne Business School adjunct professor of marketing Mark Ritson – a respected commentator on the NZ ad-media scene – writes (in UK Marketing Week): “The first lesson of the coronavirus crisis that now engulfs us is to shut the fuck up and let the experts guide us.
NBR out of ink
AUCKLAND, Today: The National Business Review has canned its weekly print edition and moved to a fully digital-based subscription.
Free for all
AUCKLAND, Today: The New Zealand PR Institute has opened up its jobs board to everyone who is seeking a job/project work, or to advertise a role – free of charge (in more normal times it’s a members-only service).
Pain & Gain
AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Veteran Marsden Inch recruiter Barry Williamson has responded positively to Paul Head’s state-of-the-industry report, reprinted by M+AD Daily Tuesday directly from the Comms Council website.
Eye of the tiger
SYDNEY, Today: The New Zealand ad market is better placed than Australia’s to weather the Covid19 storm, according to ad intel provider Standard Media Index.
Don’t spray it!
AUCKLAND, Today: Many ad businesses are rapidly finding new ways to operate – like voiceover agency Bigmouth, which is now offering full voiceover services via Skype, Facetime, Zoom, or a phone call.