A new logo for Villa Maria’s Wise Owl range has been given the nod of approval – a New World Stratford liquor manager is keeping it for life as a tattoo.

Richard Newstead, a senior content editor at Getty Images, recently compiled a gallery of his favourite images from the ‘Our Moment’ collections featured on the website. The result is a varied series of 15 images that gives the viewer a momentary glimpse at colourful cityscapes, blissful dogs, blinding sunrises, re-imaginings of historical landmarks and more.

The rural sector has helped keep New Zealand afloat over the past few fairly difficult years and, as the amount of spending done at Fieldays shows, it’s a sector with a fair bit of confidence (and cash) at the moment. And, in an effort to better reach that sector, APN NZ has launched The Land, a new weekly rural publication sandwiched between the pages of APN’s six regional newspapers that are read across the North Island by town and country dwellers alike.

Barbie is now an entrepreneur, with an actual LinkedIn profile. With her briefcase and smartphone, she’s ready to inspire/mislead little girls through a career at her latest venture “Dream Incubator”.

Satire is an important part of democracy, although judging by his various legal challenges, Colin Craig obviously doesn’t agree. And @nintendoug, “an angry man with a computer”, has given New Zealand a wonderful satirical gift in the form of Neetflux, which gives the right (and the media) a bit of a nudge with a series of fake movie posters.

This morning, yet another bombshell hit the SVOD space with the announcement that Slingshot had introduced its global mode, which will give Kiwi subscribers access to services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, BBC iPlayer. This announcement comes only a week after Telecom launched its SVOD service called Lightbox and two weeks after Sky sent out a release saying that it was planning to launch a similar service in the near future.

Five interactive digital billboards will reign in Auckland’s CBD by the end of July, bringing a little bit more of Times Square to little old New Zealand. The existing single digital billboard in Queen St will soon link up with a network of four others that will be installed in Newmarket, Newton, Eden Terrace and Grafton, with full social media interaction capabilities.

This one is an interesting take on the drunk driving PSA. Instead of blood and guts, SAAQ of Quebec went with a subtle and more thought-provoking approach. Using a series of pulleys, this PSA explores the cause and effect relationship of drinking and driving.

In the new Kia Sportage spot by Work Communications, New Zealand’s green landscape and pristine waters serve as a foil to office-based captivity and the screen-staring that often comes with it. And while driving to a desolate swimming beach and diving in seems like a liberating idea, it probably isn’t quite as pleasurable as what it seems. What the footage shot by TVNZ’s Blacksand fails to tell the viewer is that the spot was shot at the onset of winter and that lead talent Sophie Baragwanath had to endure frigid swims during one day of shooting.

Over the last week, Heart of the City has been promoting its ‘Where Next?’ app, which was first announced in May. Designed in collaboration between VMob and Colenso, Where Next? puts VMob’s platform to work with a free iPhone and Android app designed to personalise the information visitors get about events, attractions, retail and hospitality, venues, deals and places to find out what’s on.