Tobacco companies are flouting ad bans by rewarding retailers who push products using a specific sequence of magic words.

Grab your cape and mask, one Auckland school is seeking a principal who is 'like Batman'.

What beverage goes best with lobster rolls, a bagel sandwich stuffed with whitefish, or a bowl of ramen? Coke wants you to think of soda.

New submissions sought on how to identify age of advertising audience.

COMMENT: Momentous times for media, including Facebook - even if it refuses to accept that it is a media company.

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is negotiating with an Australian company for a contract to redesign its website, the Herald understands.

COMMENT: The $500,000 proposal to change Auckland's slogan received predictable criticism, writes John Drinnan.

The mean nun has teamed up with the Mountain to shame the world into being more environmentally responsible.

A popular Auckland cafe is being blasted by a food critic for using naked women in its advertising.

Damon Stapleton is one of the world's most awarded advertising creatives. The South African migrant now helms DDB New Zealand.

Ad executives have solved many "problems" people didn't know they had.

A proposed voluntary code on advertising to children features explicit restrictions on advertising of "occasional" foods and beverages.

COMMENT: There's a reason great ads with exaggerated promises never feature in the financial services industry.

Samsung's exploding Galaxy Note 7 ranks among some of the biggest PR headaches ever.

Steinlager has stepped down as the sponsor of the New Zealand Rugby Awards, with ASB Bank taking the reigns.

Consumer's annual supermarket price survey has named this supermarket as the cheapest store in the country's six centres where prices were tracked.

The explosion of the lower-case "i" prefix in the wake of the Apple revolution is over. So what trend will be next?

WATCH: Audi's new ad could be one the strangest ads around.

Last night's episode of the Real Housewives of Auckland took a commercial blow following Julia Sloane's controversial comment.

An ad campaign for Burgen bread has been accused of sexualising women to sell a staple food.

New Zealand's less restrictive food classification system called into question by researchers.

Wells Fargo has been forced to apologise after infuriating the arts community by suggesting they should take up more serious careers.

Business has been so brisk at the world's most profitable toymaker that Lego last year did something unusual.

The Seven Sharp presenter is distancing herself from an internet diet scam using her image to peddle pills.

AirAsia X will change how it discloses processing fees when selling tickets online getting a Commerce Commission warning.

Brace yourself for the adpocalypse.

Can personalised number plates become a mainstream product? Or will they remain the preserve of show-off extroverts?

The Commerce Commission has accused Trustpower of making misleading offers of bundled electricity and broadband plans.

Bonds has launched a bizarre new ad in Australia in which men agonise over the impact of having children on their physiques.

Heineken has some sponsorship advice for the International Olympic Committee: Less is more.