AUCKLAND, Today: DesignThinkers Group – an outfit with a global reputation – is to launch in NZ in one month, on Tuesday 13 April in Auckland.

AUCKLAND, Today: The pinnacle of the creative sector’s year – the 2019 Axis awards – are on again tonight at the Comms Council’s sold-out show at Skycity Convention Centre.

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.