AUCKLAND, Today: The Marketing Association has engaged three prominent ad execs and a radio DJ to present its timely Women in Marketing event next month, which aims to “showcase the stories, talent, and insights of the women (and men) in our industry, while also discussing how to best engage women as a target audience”.

NAPIER, Wednesday: A year of growth for specialist Hawkes Bay-based agribusiness agency Tracta has resulted in two appointments to its leadership team. 

AUCKLAND, Today: NZME’s NZ Herald (at #1) and Stuff (#2) head the latest Nielsen Online ratings. The result cements the Herald’s positioning as NZ’s top digital news provider.

AUCKLAND, Today: JCDecaux New Zealand is preparing to launch a digital panel of “Olympic proportions”, offering advertisers access to the large volume of audiences travelling from Auckland’s CBD through Parnell and into Newmarket.

AUCKLAND, Today: Cult US TV brand [adult swim] is joining TVNZ OnDemand from 1 February as the platform’s newest digital channel.

AUCKLAND, Today: Discovery NZ’s BigAds reckons it’s shaking up the digital advertising world with its newly launched fully automated self-service creative ad builder and scheduler platform.

AUCKLAND, Today: Hunch managing partner Michael Goldthorpe writes: “It’s been fun to follow the semi-stoush between the Comms Council and ‘all of the councils’ through M+AD.

NEW YORK, Today: The One Club for Creativity has unveiled two creatives from New Zealand as judges for the 2021 One Show, and one NZ judge for this year’s ADC 100th Annual Awards.

AUCKLAND, Today: Indie Grey Lynn media agency D3 has been appointed to manage the Metlifecare Retirement Villages media account. The incumbent was Dentsu, which was also involved in the selection process along with PHD and Hearts & Science.