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With the 2019 Rugby World Cup beginning in Japan this weekend, TAB has launched its Try Time campaign ahead of the opening games.

The third nationwide GfK radio industry survey for 2019 shows Radio New Zealand audience numbers remain strong – with 669,600 New Zealanders (10+) tuned in to RNZ National and RNZ Concert each week.

Sydney-based PR and brand engagement agency CampaignLab has announced it has made the leap across the ditch, launching the business in New Zealand. Sophia Berry-Smith, who joins from her previous role as head of communications at Stuff, has been named CampaignLab’s first appointment in New Zealand. She will lead key accounts in-market, while helping establish and grow the brand locally.

WPP AUNZ has merged PR agency PPR with global communications agency ​BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe). The newly merged business will be led by Pamela Klioufis, managing director of BCW’s Australian business.

Snaps all around for Powershop, Vodafone and Warmer Kiwi Homes.

In a new brand campaign, by EightyOne, Powershop is shining a light on the relationship consumers have with their electricity through a young woman and a big pink blob.

Get out the tissues. Vodafone is celebrating the possibilities of 5G in a beautiful campaign by DDB dubbed ‘Huxley’.

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The results of the third GfK Radio Survey for 2019 are out and The Edge is holding strong in top position for commercial stations, with a weekly cumulative reach of 590,800 listeners. These listeners contribute to the 3.3 million New Zealanders who listen to commercial radio in their everyday lives.

Clemenger BBDO and Warmer Kiwi Homes have banded together to promote the second phase of the Warmer Kiwi Homes grant.

Meridian have teamed up with Garage Project brewery to launch Turbine Pale Ale and introduce the energy company’s new renewable energy certification.

Te mahi pai (good work) to Pepsi NZ, Meridian and Garage Project, Augusto and the Māori Language Commission, and Dettol.

Two international companies, Sweetshop and Green Productions have joined forces to launch Sweetshop & Green into Australia and New Zealand. The new company has a focus to bring small and large scale tv and film productions to the country.

The MPA judges described this year’s ‘Rising Star’, Erin Berryman, as a commercially-focused editor who has demonstrated strategic nous during her site, Beautyheaven, launch and ongoing development. Here, Berryman shares her thoughts on the award and the industry she is rising through.

DDB Group has launched its fifth agency following growth and globally successful campaigns. Tribal Worldwide New Zealand now leads the group’s digital department.

That’s right. In a move that was a huge surprise yet at the same time not at all a surprise, NZ Marketing Magazine took out the Supreme Award for Best Magazine at the Magazine Publishing Awards for 2019, beating out the competition and claiming its rightful crown as best of the best. Bow down.

Deals, expansions and acquisitions across the industry.

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Encouraging the use of Te reo Māori continues to grow in importance as native speaking numbers decline. Continuing support for the language this Māori Language Week, OMANZ (JCDecaux, oOh!Media!, QMS, Media5 and AdVantage Media), with assistance from LUMO and Go Media, will be using their talents to make the language more visible.