AUCKLAND, Thursday: Stanley St has appointed Renée Smith as group media director. Smith is an award-winning media and marketing professional, with 15 years’ experience in media agencies, media-owner roles and clientside head-of-media roles.

AUCKLAND, Today: DDB and FCB appear to have contained the pandemic damage with minimum casualties. Both agencies were reluctant to discuss figures, but had no trouble talking in generalised terms about “single-digit” layoffs.

AUCKLAND, Today: DDB, FCB, Stanley St, and Clemenger BBDO are the agency finalists in The Radio Bureau’s 2020 Orca Awards, announced this morning.

PARIS, Today: Entries for the Epica Awards, the only global creative award judged by the press, have opened with an early-bird €100 discount until August 31.

TAKAPUNA, Wednesday: Health TV has extended its nationwide network of TVs – widely seen in GP medical clinics & hospitals – to the medical clinics in Defence Force bases in the NZ Army, RNZN, and the RNZAF.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: US-based Magnite, which bills itself as the largest independent sell-side advertising platform, has appointed Yael Milbank as MD for New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Today: Publicis Groupe has confirmed that Saatchi & Saatchi is the only Groupe agency in NZ to be impacted by Covid-induced redundancies – confounding AUNZ ceo Michael Rebelo’s earlier warnings that 30+ roles were at risk in both countries.

AUCKLAND, Today: A month after Phantom Billstickers’ first digital screens were switched on, the data shows thousands of walkers pass them daily.

AUCKLAND, Today: Investment in large-format out-of-home has been proven to boost brand sentiment metrics, as well as raise overall campaign awareness, a new study – released by JCDecaux – reveals.