AUCKLAND, Today: Plexure NZ’s specialist mobile engagement platform has been named in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms, positioned as the highest for ability to execute and ‘completeness of vision’ in the Niche Player quadrant.

AUCKLAND, Today: Emirates Team New Zealand has selected JCDecaux as its exclusive digital outdoor billboards supplier as we prepare to defend the America’s Cup.

AUCKLAND, Today: Automation agency Hype & Dexter has been named one of the first HubSpot agencies in the world to achieve ‘Elite’ status, following its naming as HubSpot APAC Partner of the Year in 2019.

AUCKLAND, Today: Hugh Rennie’s long-awaited book on the history of a Kiwi financial institution – The first two decades of National Business Review, 1970-1991 – is out now.

AUCKLAND, Monday: DDB’s CRM arm Track Aotearoa has developed a new advertising programme for KidsCan, which is dealing with an extra 10,000 children needing their help in the wake of Covid-19.

AUCKLAND, Today: Niche online stock footage library nzstockfootage.co.nz has been totally redesigned to make searching for stock videos faster and more intuitive.

CHRISTCHURCH, Today: It is with sadness M+AD reports the September 5 death of senior media executive Chris Jagusch. Few details were available at press time (including the circumstances of his passing, his age, and his descendants).