AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Following a competitive pitch, Tower Insurance has appointed Shine as its strategic & creative comms agency, partnering with MBM for media planning & services. The incumbent for both roles (media & creative) was Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu.

AUCKLAND, Today: Wellington agency EightyOne has appointed Chris Bleackley (ex-Saatchi) as its full-time executive creative director alongside the appointment of new team members and a new offer called Drive-thru.

LONDON, Monday: Manal Rostom, who founded Facebook group Surviving Hijab, has told the Wacl (Women in Advertising & Communications) conference that she had called out Nike for not featuring “any women that looked like us”.

AUCKLAND, Today: Clemenger BBDO, DDB, Saatchi & Saatchi and VMLY&R are currently engaged in a pitch for arguably the most prestigious e-commerce advertising account in NZ, according to an article written by former Stop Press editor Damien Venuto on the NZ Herald’s premium content page.

AUCKLAND, Friday: Employers should not panic that the possible legalisation of cannabis will mean that employees will be allowed to come to work stoned, say Buddle Findlay’s Susan Rowe & Shaun Brookes, in an article written especially for NBR.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: The daily once affectionately known as ‘Granny Herald’ truly lifted her skirts with this risqué (for a daily newspaper) heading over a newsbrief in yesterday’s Herald on Sunday.