The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has cleared both the JCDecaux acquisition of APN Outdoor as well as oOh!media’s takeover of Adshel – a decision welcomed by oOh!media.

WELLINGTON, Thursday: TVNZ has overnight reported a $9.1 million lift in operational earnings, strengthened share of TV audiences and revenue, and significantly boosted online streaming scale for the financial year ended 30 June 2018.

Isentia NZ country manager Russ Horell reflects on his first 12 months in the job – updating the op-ed piece he wrote for M+AD in January, after three months in the role: The news cycle as we’ve known it no longer exists. Issues take off and change course within a matter of minutes. For New Zealand’s leading communicators this creates just as many opportunities as challenges.

Adshel NZ has expanded its Immerse portfolio of products with the addition of Adshel Live Panoramas, which combine Adshel’s static Panorama format with the smart digital capability and technology of Adshel Live. 

Auckland agency Rainger & Rolfe have produced a new campaign for client Oceania Healthcare – just gone to air – starring a beautifully recorded Kiwi rendition of a classic love song, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, with vocals by (among others) NZ diva Suzanne Lynch.

How do you launch a new food product that no-one has ever tried before? One that’s competing with a well-established, dominant food category and which is almost guaranteed to attract scepticism and even resistance?

AUCKLAND, Today: New Zealand content strategy and creation agency Augusto is expanding its office in New York City. “Not bad for an agency that started life in a garage just 10 years ago,” reckons founder Michelle Walshe.