AUCKLAND, Today: The glitter has finally finished falling on Botab 2019. The 12th instalment, brought to us by Flying Fish and the Comms Council, played to a sold-out house at  a sellout with at least 500 there to witness “a brilliant display of sequins, feathers and a lot of sass” (juicy quote courtesy of the Comms Council’s Amal Siddique).

AUCKLAND, Today: A magical stingray living in the Mangawhai Estuary is at the centre of the latest story book adventure released by Auckland-based Boyd PR to raise funds for the Northland Rescue Helicopter.

AUCKLAND, Today: Official Botab charity MusicHelps, which aims to use the power of music to help and heal New Zealanders in need, has created NZ Music T-Shirt Day. MusicHelps GM Peter Dickens unveiled the event on stage at Botab on Thursday.

AUCKLAND, Today: Special Group NZ created a simple graphic may-the-best-team-win execution for Guinness to craft a press, street poster and digital campaign to ramp up the drama before Saturday’s knockout quarter-final Ireland and the all-conquering ABs.

Oscar Kightley (a TV3 survivor, now a Sunday News columnist): “Those were the days when the vibe between TV3 and TVNZ was like the Bloods and the Crips without the drive-by shootings.

AUCKLAND, Today: New Zealanders are now able to make a tap-and-go donation during their daily commute following the launch of the country’s first bus shelter donation panel by leading out-of-home company oOh!media.

AUCKLAND, Today (Review by Scott Pryor): The behemoth rocket ship that is BOTAB blasted off last night at Galatos in Auckland as agencies put on a spectacle lauded as “the best yet” by Radio Hauraki’s Matt Heath.

AUCKLAND, Today: MediaWorks has this morning announced that it intends to sell MediaWorks TV as well as its Flower St property which includes its television head office and studios.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Stanley St CCO Regan Grafton has confirmed that the unexpected resignations of ECDs Lisa Fedyszyn & Jonathan McMahon came amidst expressions of mutual goodwill.