AUCKLAND, Today: Along with our dedication to all things digital, M+AD still loves its weekend papers. There’s nothing like newsprint to get a decent scan-and-selection process going. Over a cup of freshly brewed coffee!

BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA, Sunday: Colenso BBDO took out the Ad Stars’ Film Grand Prix for DB Breweries I’m Drinking it for You at Ad Stars at the weekend. Colenso also won four gold trophies, while Ogilvy/Stanley St NZ won two golds.

AUCKLAND, Today: Nielsen has unveiled a new enhancement to its Ad Intel service which shows the growth of outdoor advertising split by digital and static mediums in New Zealand.

SYDNEY, Friday: QMS Media has posted its New Zealand & Australian financial results for the first half of the year, advising the ASX of a 65% rise in profit to A$16.5m.

SYDNEY, Friday: Market watchers have reacted furiously to news that WPP AUNZ’s profit has slid by 15.3% thanks to a “weak media spend market”, with interim ceo John Steedman predicting “further consolidation” in the Australasian market.

LONDON, Thursday: The global cinema advertising market is expected to be worth US$4.6bn this year, representing a 6.8% rise from 2018, according to Warc’s latest Global Ad Trends report.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has announced its entry call for the 2nd annual Pressies – a full-on exercise to recognise and reward our PR, experiential and social media practitioners.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: NZME has established a full in-house programmatic sales team dedicated to its advertising agency partners.

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The NZ Herald, Stuff, and the Waikato Times are among the finalists for the NewsMediaWorks’ 2019 News Media Awards just announced in NSW.