AUCKLAND, Today: NZ-based creative content company Pitchblack Partners have set their sights on the US with Podium, a new coaching app for runners, launched last week in the US with a full brand design, app design, and ATL campaign.

AUCKLAND, Today: A hard-bitten, gimlet-eyed PR person feeling “isolated and depressed”? A contradiction in terms, surely? But it was reality to NSPR founder Niki Schuck when she moved from her hometown Dunedin to Waiheke Island in 2014.

AUCKLAND, Today: A very quiet day for industry news today – due, of course, to the onset of the four-day Easter break.

SINGAPORE, Wednesday: The Spikes Asia Creative Awards has issued its 2019 call for entries – this year with new categories, and other spruce-up changes.

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Seven entries from New Zealand are through to the shortlist stage of the internet Oscars – the Webby Awards. 

AUCKLAND, Today: 99’s AR-based egg hunt is back in store, and for the first time, players have the opportunity to take home New World’s Easter bunny mascot in the form of a limited-edition soft toy.

PARIS, Today: Advertising eavesdropping site Adforum has named DDB NZ’s latest tvc for Steinlager at No 1 in its weekly roundup of the top five tvcs in the world.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Motivated to do something to highlight and change New Zealand’s alarming suicide statistics, Auckland creative agency Augusto has tackled the issue head-on in two new film projects.