AUCKLAND, Thursday: Canadian social media management platform Hootsuite has released its 2020 Global Digital Report – which includes detailed analyses of the market in NZ.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: “Even though people make mistakes and often are the reason an error occurs, we want them over machines,” writes DDB ANZ CCO Damon Stapleton in his latest blog posting (about the exit of NZ’s last Blockbuster video store – in Dargaville).

AUCKLAND, Today: The New York Times best-selling comms author Seth Godin is coming to New Zealand and Australia in May for a series of seminars.

AUCKLAND, Today: Episode 49 of Love This Podcast launched this week – a bi-weekly Colenso series where CD Beth O’Brien and comms director Joe Carter interview the world’s creative leaders about creativity, culture, business and innovation.

AMSTERDAM, Wednesday: An ultra-short advertisement of as little as two seconds is able to convey brand, product and message more effectively than the first few seconds of a regular 30-second online spot, according to new research.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: New Zealanders are enjoying fresh stone fruit on their daily commute, with bus stops in Auckland and Wellington transformed into orchards as part of a new oOh!media campaign with Countdown.

AUCKLAND, Today: Publicis Groupe NZ has just unveiled Publicis Liberté, a new flexible working approach for their NZ-based agencies – Digitas Affinity ID, Frontside, MBM, Saatchi & Saatchi, Starcom and Zenith.

AUCKLAND, Today: Villa Maria has teamed up with US director Colin West and an American film crew to create a feature-length documentary that follows Kiwis in the making of a Villa Maria wines vintage.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Tribal Worldwide NZ has been appointed as lead social agency for Samsung NZ following a competitive pitch.

SYDNEY, Today: Adobe AU/NZ has announced the availability of  its  Adobe Experience Platform  for customers  in  Australia and New Zealand.