Just nine days left to enter MediaWorks/CAANZ Inspiring Individual Award – it closes at 4pm on Friday 31 March. The winner will be announced at the Beacon Awards on Thursday 4 May – and will receive $10,000 to be used to further their education for experience and knowledge to be shared.

Outdoor advertising company Adshel has today launched a targeting initiative for advertisers which integrates property and location insights from CoreLogic with Adshel assets.

Guilt-trip advertising & marketing has a role in charity and government communications but brands and their agencies need to tread carefully in this area if they are to avoid generating anger, according to two UK academics.

Westfield shopping centre owner Sydney-based Scentre Group is about to launch its SmartScreen Network – 175 hi-res digital screens – in New Zealand shopping centres.

Saatchi & Saatchi and Starcom New Zealand have been appointed by Chorus as their creative and media agencies of record, following a competitive pitch that began at the end of 2016. The incumbent was Contagion.

Pead PR’s David Paine, who died at home last week after a battle with cancer, will be remembered this afternoon at 2.30pm at St Aiden’s Anglican Church, 5 Ascot Avenue, Remuera.

New Zealand exporters are expected to benefit from access to a Google platform which makes it easier to compare prices of products, according to a local marketing expert.

M+AD was a little shy of the mark on Friday when we advised that BC&F Dentsu ECD Paul Catmur and True head of planning Janisa Parag were heading to London to sit on the international jury for the Content Strategy category at the upcoming Warc Awards.