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.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Radio Broadcasters Association has released a lengthy list of finalists for the 2020 NZ Radio Awards.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: “I have been alarmed to see that disdain for the mainstream media has spread to the mainstream media itself,” writes Paul Little, in his farewell column in the Herald on Sunday.

AUCKLAND, Friday: A tacky take on the classic Star Wars genre has won a big night out for four NZ media agency teams who produced the five winners for Val Morgan’s MCU (Marvel Comic Universe) competition.