The Marketing Association is holding a two-day copywriting course, geared mainly for marketers who want to brush up their basic writing skills. It will led by Australia-based freelance copywriter Jon Maxim, who’s ex McCann, Maxim Advertising and Oracle Advertising.

Tickets are now on sale for the New Zealand Arts Awards, to be held in Queens Wharf’s iconic Shed 10 – said to be the biggest shed in the world – on Wednesday 23 November. The show starts at 6pm. Unlike industry awards shows, the Arts Awards winners will be unveiled over a week earlier – on Monday 14 November.

Westhaven indie agency Chemistry Interaction has crafted a new campaign for global youth travel brand Contiki – founded by Kiwi businessman John Anderson in 1962. Chemistry’s work will support Contiki’s global No Regrets campaign.

Consumers feeling stalked, annoyed and misunderstood are among the potential pitfalls of marketing in a connected world, new research has revealed. Kantar TNS’ Connected Life survey, released in New Zealand this week, reveals a number of global and NZ trends and insights around marketing in a connected world.

NZ Herald business journalists have paid moving tributes to their colleague Christopher Adams, 34, who died on holiday in Cambodia this week.

SYDNEY – Global performance marketing platform AdRoll has unveiled SendRoll, a new product that seamlessly extends the power of retargeting to a new channel. SendRoll delivers personalised emails that are triggered by browsing behaviour on a website.

NZME may buy Adshel’s local business for $A156 million (NZ$167m) after former parent APN News & Media’s buy-out of the outdoor advertising business triggered an option for the local media group to buy the assets on the same terms, according to a report in NBR online.