AUCKLAND, Today: Insects are in trouble worldwide and Phantom Billstickers is playing their part in preserving our planet’s resources by supporting groups that are actually doing it – in this instance, For the Love of Bees, a charitable trust that runs organic market gardens at sites around Auckland.

AUCKLAND, Today: Last week, an event that PHD’s Drum agency billed as “the world’s first crisis simulation event”, CrisisX: The Readiness Conference, drew an audience of 120 leaders from New Zealand’s business community.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has issued its call for entries for the annual Sandy Smith Unsung Hero Award, in which MediaWorks will pay $10,000 to remember a long-serving business development manager.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: In a thoughtfully worded message, TVNZ corporate comms GM Georgie Hills has attempted to explain how Marae deliberately distorted a Te Reo discussion that screened Sunday.

AUCKLAND, Today: The 2019 Acumen Edelman Trust Barometer shows “my employer” emerging as the most trusted institution in New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Today: KPEX, the programmatic ad exchange owned by NZ’s four largest media groups, announced that it will provide full URL transparency for its online advertising inventory from this Monday, 18 March.  

SYDNEY, Today: Asian Girls, a stylised, slick horror short directed by Curious Film’s Hyun Lee*, has been released online after a successful run of film festival screenings in the USA, UK and Australia.

SYDNEY, Today: For this story we are indebted to Australia’s most entertaining admedia writers – the scallywags at B&T. Here’s what they have to say about Reebok’s latest …

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: 2degrees has teamed up with Amazon to offer Amazon Prime Video memberships to its broadband customers. The agencies helping to align matters at this end are DDB (creative), Ikon (media) and Porter Novelli (PR)..