AUCKLAND, Today: FCB is celebrating its wins this year at Axis (Creative Agency of the Year) and the Beacons (Most Awarded Media Agency) with a Double Banger campaign of its own, running at Auckland Airport and across OOH, Dom Post print, Stuff, Herald print, and Herald online.

“The planets and stars don’t always align like this, but it’s no co-incidence,” said FCB PR chief Angela Spain.

AUCKLAND, Today: MediaWorks has challenged M+AD’s assertion that Radio Hauraki is New Zealand’s number one music station with males.

AUCKLAND, Today: Lumo Digital Outdoor has launched its enhanced website featuring an industry-first client platform. The new website allows clients to log in to a portal and view Lumo’s digital billboards throughout New Zealand in real time through their high-definition cameras.

By Rebecca Caroe* : The New Zealand Commerce Commission is investigating online retailers who they claim have manipulated customer reviews and testimonials in “… conduct that was liable to mislead consumers by creating artificially positive impressions …”

AUCKLAND, Today: Radio Hauraki – NZ’s No 2 music station with males – is counting down for its No Talk Day this Friday, which aims to shine a light on men’s mental health.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: NZ’s media agency market has ended a difficult 2018/19 financial year with a positive change of fortune in the last two months, with the growth in advertising expenditure reported in June the highest of the past year.

AUCKLAND, Today: Ogilvy NZ MD Greg Partington and WPP AUNZ have announced a restructure as a result of Partington purchasing WPP AUNZ’s shares in Ogilvy New Zealand (which the parties expect to complete later this week).

AUCKLAND, Today: Stuff, with Grey Lynn digital agency D3, has launched a new news & entertainment video destination, Play Stuff, featuring free content curated from BBC, Reuters, the NZ Press Association, NZ On Screen, Bravo NZ, Les Mills, Madman, Red Bull, and VICE.