AUCKLAND, Today: Discovery Inc has this morning unveiled its Australia and New Zealand leadership team, its first move towards combining its businesses across the region into one organisation spanning both countries.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Tiktok For Business and Omnicom Media Group have successfully carried out a closed beta testing partnership throughout Q1 of 2021, to launch the TikTok Ads Manager platform for agencies and direct advertisers in New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Today: Ten thousand Splore festival-goers had a new friend to party with at this year’s event, as HRV’s Harvey the Dog joined them in the mosh pit for the three-day music and lifestyle festival.

SYDNEY, Today: Subway New Zealand has launched a brand-first marketing campaign, with a series of non-branded billboards on main thoroughfares throughout the country.

AUCKLAND, Today: Mobile ad specialist Kargo has joined forces with NYC-based e-commerce outfit MikMak to share strategies.

AUCKLAND, Today: AUNZ agency veteran Clara McLaurin has launched a new, Ponsonby-based full-service brand/comms agency, Remade, which she describes as “pharma-capable”.

A blog by DDB AUNZ regional CCO Damon Stapleton
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” – Joan Didion

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Well, here I go. This is the advertising equivalent of the charge of the light brigade. I am going to ride my horse of belief right at the cannons of coolness. I am about to fight for a word even I hate. Tally ho.

LONDON, Today: Respected ex-Auckland media director Paul Shearman had passed away in the UK. The date of his death was not known at the time of writing, but recruitment consultant Barry Williamson, a former colleague, said it was “recently”.