NEW YORK, Thursday: Mars petcare brand Puppo has collaborated with Colenso BBDO to create a bespoke ad for every registered dog in New York City – over 100,000 of them.

AUCKLAND, Today: Bauer Media, NZ’s largest magazine publisher, have agreed to sell Autotrader to former managers Ross Logue and Richard East.

AUCKLAND, Today: The collective at Parachute Music has embarked on a third season of production music for Dancing with the Stars NZ.

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.