This year’s New Zealand Direct Marketing Conference will be held in the Auckland CBD at the Crowne Plaza on Tuesday 29 August, between 9am and 5pm.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that there are now two billion people on Facebook globally every month. 

NZ and Australian sites appear to have been unaffected by yesterday’s ransomware attack that swept much of the world, putting global advertising giant WPP offline across Europe and North America.

Serena Williams is said to have won the Australian women’s singles championship back in January while expecting a baby – a prognosis confirmed by a stunning new picture of the six-months-pregnant tennis star on the cover of the latest Vanity Fair.

Phantom Bill Stickers, leaders in the nation’s most music-friendly ad medium, have gifted an exclusive set of their acclaimed NZ Music Month Musicians of Aotearoa poster series to The NZ Music Foundation for auction on Trade Me.

M+AD ed David Gapes had his own close encounter of the worst kind with the Auld Mug – now heading back to Godzone – when it was last in town.

The NZ Commercial Comms Council has today issued its call for entries for the 2017 Effie Awards (held in association with TVNZ). Entries close Tuesday 15 August, for a show scheduled at the Langham Auckland – soon to be relaunched with a new name* – on Thursday 19 October.

Chinese internet giant Alibaba sees “significant opportunities” for ethnic communities in New Zealand to sell to middle-class Chinese consumers who are already well disposed to the country’s clean and green image, reports Warc from the UK.