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For hire, for $25,000
Anna Cudby is willing to become a human billboard for up to five months so she can repay a $25,000 student loan.

Six arrests made in fake ad scam
Six people have been arrested over a $1.6 million invoice scam which involved the sale of advertising in magazines that did not exist or were not as widely circulated as claimed.

Do you like the idea of a sponsor's logo on the All Black jersey?
Rugby chiefs may have signed a sponsorship deal that could put a new advertising logo on the All Blacks' jerseys and shorts for their end-of-season tour of Britain. Do you like the idea? Vote now.

Support for plain packets
University of Otago researchers say the public support the plain packaging of tobacco - but the industry says the research proves little about real smoker behaviour.

Can an Aussie company do a good job selling NZ's image?
A contract for "the New Zealand Story" - the Government's campaign to promote the country internationally - has been given to a largely Australian design agency - Principals. Send us Your Views.

Aussies hired to sell NZ
A contract for "the New Zealand Story" - the Government's campaign to promote the country internationally - has been given to a mostly Australian design agency.

Toby Manhire: Anti-plain packaging ads are driving me BATs
It's as if the creative team's brains exploded on to a whiteboard and they gave it to a junior animator and said: Make this, wites Toby Manhire.

Sparks fly over ciggies
Posters of a young woman smoking, displayed by a Kiwi clothing chain, have angered a health charity.

Media: ANZ nation?
An outsider tuning in to the Valerie Adams medal ceremony could be excused for thinking Adams came from the small Pacific nation of "ANZ Bank".

Val's medal: ANZ trumps rival
ANZ's saturation sponsorship of Valerie Adams' gold medal ceremony will be salt in the wounds of a rival bank and fellow Olympic sponsor, a marketing expert says.

'Wimpy' jobseeker advert pulled
A weed control firm which bluntly said "wimpy" job seekers were not suited to their summer vacancies has pulled the ad from Trade Me after more than 42,000 hits.