AUCKLAND, Tuesday: 2degrees has teamed up with Amazon to offer Amazon Prime Video memberships to its broadband customers. The agencies helping to align matters at this end are DDB (creative), Ikon (media) and Porter Novelli (PR)..

SYDNEY, Tuesday: DDB New Zealand, with 21 finalists, is the leading Kiwi agency list through at the shortlist stage of the 40th AWARD Awards – dominated, naturally, by Aussie shops.

AUCKLAND, Today: A playful take on reminding Kiwis that genius is everywhere, within all of us, is at the heart of the new brand campaign for Chorus, launched this morning by Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Today: One’s Marae programme has a question to answer: Were the Maori pronunciation tests that their camera crew conducted on Ponsonby Rd last week deliberately edited to produce a result that downplayed Pakehas’ skills with the language?

AUCKLAND, Today: Globally successful dining-membership programme Zomato Gold has launched in New Zealand with a wryly straight-talking creative campaign Be More Social from J Walter Thompson and a media schedule from Mindshare that aims to tap into Kiwis’ increasing appetite for dining out.

WELLINGTON, Yesterday: FCB New Zealand has been awarded the creative business for WorkSafe New Zealand after a pitch process conducted in Wellington. The new partners chose not to identify the incumbent, but M+AD can reveal it was Assignment.

SINGAPORE, Tuesday: Tangrams, Apac’s largest strategy & effectiveness awards, has announced the alignment of its key awards dates with those of the Spikes Asia this year.

AUCKLAND, Yesterday: Exhibition giant Val Morgan reports that the Marvel series of movies is proving to be a winning formula when it comes to box office success. Marvel has become one of the biggest pop culture influences in the past decade and the results are showing.

LONDON, Monday: PHD Auckland’s DB Export Beer Bottle Sand has been declared the top-placed work from Asia Pacific in the Warc Media 100 Awards (formerly the Gunn Media 100).

AUCKLAND, Saturday: M+AD ed David Gapes, and recently appointed deputy ed Scott Pryor, fought out the finals of the 2019 Ponsonby Masters snooker tournament, held at the National Snooker & Billiards Centre in Royal Oak. Pryor won.