AUCKLAND, Today: nzherald.co.nz and Stuff are now neck-and-neck in the battle to be New Zealand’s number one website in readership size.

LONDON, Monday: Gunn Report, an annual compendium of the world’s most successful print and television advertising campaigns – and a sub-brand of UK marketing site Warc – is being re-branded, following Warc’s acquisition by global information company Ascential.

SYDNEY, Friday: Tourism New Zealand – with TBWA/Sydney fighting at our side – is lashing back at the Aussie meat industry’s provocative New Australia-land campaign.

AUCKLAND, Friday: Monday is Auckland Anniversary Day, an official public holiday in the northern part of the nation, with many businesses closed for the day.

AUCKLAND, Today: Recruitment specialist 3rdeye has promoted Harriet Kelly and Ellana Stubbs to a co-leadership role, replacing long-term leader Barry Williamson, who is stepping down.

AUCKLAND, Today: FCB New Zealand has announced the promotion of Toby Sellers to managing director. Sellers joined the agency in 2010 as a group account director, and has strong experience both locally and globally having worked at leading agencies both in New Zealand and the UK, across a diverse range of brands.

AUCKLAND, Today: Phantom Billstickers has developed a suite of software tools to build a precisely targeted schedule of street posters, and check exactly when and where they have run – in close to real time.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has posted details of a personal skill development course – Managing Those Difficult Conversations, led by employment lawyer Anthony Drake.

NEW YORK, Wednesday: New York Festivals International Advertising Awards has announced Matt Eastwood, global chief creative officer of McCann Health, as its 2019 executive jury president – joining four Kiwis already appointed to the jury.

AUCKLAND, Today: Former FCB NZ CCO James Mok has been appointed to the managing director role at VMLY&R NZ – a move confirmed this morning by Sydney-based PR executive Katy Denis.