AUCKLAND, Thursday: Phantom’s Ben Stonyer writes: “It was four long weeks. 28+ days with no posters. The printing presses went silent. The paste buckets were put down. The Phantom vans and bikes were parked up.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Level 4 lockdown saw thousands of New Zealanders return to the tried and trusted medium of print for their daily news and information needs.

AUCKLAND, Today: Poster campaigns may be on hold right now, but creativity never sleeps. In the latest of its ongoing interviews with Phantom insiders, the billstickers’ website peeked inside the seething brain of Jono Cole.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Albany-based PR shop Rise & Shine yesterday hosted a series of three virtual beauty launches for Dermalogica NZ.

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Bauer Media Australia is heading down a similar path to the NZ arm of the German company, which closed suddenly last month – taking with it a huge swathe of the NZ magazine market.

AUCKLAND, Today: Former Saatchi Worldwide ceo Peter Cullinane – now ceo of the revolutionary Lewis Rd Creamery milk brand he founded in 2011 – is a guest speaker at a Marketing Association livestreamed Brainy Breakfast in a fortnight.

AUCKLAND, Today: JCDecaux has harnessed its out-of-home platform for good, featuring a series of campaigns across its NZ large-format digital network to thank essential workers and everyday Kiwis during the Covid-19 lockdown.

AUCKLAND, Today: “What is failure,” wonders DDB AUNZ CCO Damon Stapleton in his latest, imagination-stretching blog …

AUCKLAND, Today: Apologies to Bill Ralston and the late, great Paul Holmes, named by M+AD yesterday as suspects in our coverage of Paul Little’s farewell column in the Herald On Sunday.

AUCKLAND, Today: Steinlager, with help from DDB, has utilised all of its OOH media to commemorate fallen Kiwi and Australian soldiers on Anzac Day.