At an agency and media event in Auckland this morning, TVNZ, MediaWorks and Sky TV joined forces to launch ThinkTV – a collective voice for the industry to promote the scale and effectiveness of television advertising in New Zealand. 

Saturday’s Weekend Herald featured an interesting piece – with a taped interview – about Bridget Taylor, the ECD at Contagion, the full-service indie agency she founded with husband Dean Taylor.

Sydney, Today – Following a successful year beta-testing the bespoke music platform in Australia, Admusic V2.0 will launch on both sides of the Tasman this week under the name MusicBrief.

Sydney-based Kiwi Andrew Holmes, who’s now lead editor at creative services company Heckler (his last job was the new Tiger Beer commercial) has picked up a Silver Lotus Award at Adfest 2018.

Auckland music production house Smoke is stepping out for another spin with Mediaworks, creating all the dance tracks for the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars.

The Comms Council reckons that tickets are selling fast for the upcoming 5th annual Beacons Awards in May. “So pick up yours today,” says ceo Paul Head.

Sydney PR exponent/crisis comms expert Patrick Southam has written a scathing story for Aussie ad-sheet Mumbrella about the professional PR policies at Cricket Australia, in the wake of the national team’s cheating sensation – caught in full frontal by national commercial television.

Colenso BBDO has redesigned the agency to focus on creative collaboration, clients’ customers and new ways of working – via an in-depth press release that explains why & how the agency has evolved its agency model.

Auckland PR agency Lily & Louis reports that it’s seeing “a cracking start” to the year with a stable of new clients added to its portfolio.