MELBOURNE, Today: Leading hotel franchise group Choice Hotels Asia-Pac has launched its latest marketing campaign Win a Hotel for a Weekend across Australia and New Zealand, out of Gravia Media in Victoria.

AUCKLAND, Today: AIA has announced the appointment of Auckland-based full-service agency Anthem to oversee the rebrand of AIA in New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Today: High St-based full-service digitally-led agency Little Giant has launched a news website for NZ’s alternate news voice – TVNZ Re:.

AUCKLAND, Friday: Affinity ID client Southern Cross Health Society was one of the big winners at last week’s NZ Direct Marketing Awards, taking home two golds, a silver and a bronze for its Altogether Better campaign, which recognises its revamped member engagement programme.

BARCELONA, Sunday: Australian and New Zealand marketers are lagging behind their global counterparts, according to new research by Adobe. In fact, only 15% of Australians and New Zealanders believe local marketers are doing a good job.

SYDNEY, Friday: A new study from global audio branding specialist PHMG shows that younger Australians place more value on music as a key element of marketing than older generations, according to a report published in B&T (scroll down for the link).

AUCKLAND: Today: In the absence of adequate supplied information, M+AD Friday passed too much credit to Pead PR in our Marlborough King Salmon/Al Brown report.

AUCKLAND, Today: Central city-based design agency Dow Goodfolk has redesigned the imagery for a NZ classic household laundry aid – Sunshine Pegs.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Education New Zealand, Colenso BBDO, and justONE were the big winners at the2018 NZDM Awards last night. More than 500 guests celebrated the magic behind personalised marketing, hosted by the Marketing Association.