AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Advertising podcast Truth and Soul Incorporated, created by BC&F Dentsu co-founder/ECD Paul Catmur, is back with two new podcast episodes designed to fill your isolation hours with something other than eating, drinking and bickering with your family about what to watch on Netflix.
Primed & rarin’
AUCKLAND, Today: M+AD, believe it or not, is a News Media Essential Service (like the newsrooms at Stuff, the Herald, TVNZ & TV3) and we’ll be continuing unabated for the foreseeable future.
Melting Pot
LAS VEGAS, Monday: Trump may be at sea – but the Thrive Cannabis Marketplace, the largest independently owned cannabis retailer in Nevada, has enacted a delivery-only business model to comply with new Covid-19 public health mandates – and retained Las Vegas-based creative agency Artisans On Fire to create an ad campaign.
Female focus
SEATTLE, Monday: Getty Images has launched the #ShowUs Grant in partnership with Dove to provide financial support and mentorship to female identifying and non-binary artists who are committed to authentically representing women in commercial photography.
High Calibre

AUCKLAND, Today: An “exceptionally high” calibre of candidates – combined with the desire to recognise the broadening shape of the NZ print industry – has resulted in PrintNZ naming an unprecedented 12 Apprentices of the Year finalists for 2020.
Working from home?
AUCKLAND, Today: The NZ Marketing Association is rightly cashing in on the reputation in NZ of Melbourne Business School adjunct professor of marketing Mark Ritson.
2degrees of declaration (updated)
AUCKLAND, Today: TBWA, Ikon and Assembly Films have put to air a groundbreaking new piece of TV work for 2degrees – #togetherwecam – aimed at oiling electronic social intercourse during the lockdown.
No party, this year

AUCKLAND, Friday: The radio industry has decided the 2020 NZ Radio Awards will not be proceeding as a live event this year – for obvious reasons.
Skinny muscles up
AUCKLAND, Friday: Colenso BBDO, PHD Media and Good Oil have created a groundbreaking new campaign – called Friendvertising – for New Zealand low-cost telco Skinny.