Monthly Archives: April, 2013

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Super Liquor hops on beer bandwagon with Craftology sub-brand
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US craft beer exports rose 72 percent last year compared to 2011 numbers and while New Zealand still has a long way to go to reach the approximately 15 percent of market share craft beer holds stateside, similarly impressive growth trends exist in New Zealand. So as the movement gains steam—among both brewers and drinkers—Super Liquor is aiming to bring those two segments closer together with its Craftology initiative, which is part loyalty scheme, part content marketing and part kerrazzzee idea dreamed up while sitting around having a beer.

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O’Sullivan opens Open for business
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The news that Naked was shutting up shop in New Zealand surfaced a couple of weeks ago, and there were a few differences of opinion from the major players on the reasons behind the closure. But Matt O’Sullivan, as expected, has now launched his new entity: Open.

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A man walks into a bar…
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We’re suckers for Old Spice ads. So much so that the various campaigns by Wieden + Kennedy have almost removed the stigma of dadness surrounding the brand. Its most recent campaign, Mr Wolfdog, stuck the boot into marketing in completely absurd fashion, but the products remained at the centre. And the latest work for its new bar soaps do much the same, with some magnificent songs that poke fun at old school soap ads.

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New food labelling standards take aim at the ‘health halo’
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We live in fat times and the supposedly duplicitous actions of the companies responsible for producing the food and drinks that play a part in this bodily expansion are often blamed for it. But the Government is attempting to address the issue and has signed off on new standards for health claims on labels that aim to reduce misleading marketing and help consumers make better-informed decisions.

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The bread of life: Tip Top and DDB spread the good word on new charity programme
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Tip Top bread, a George Weston Foods brand, gained a few fans when chief executive Greg Coffey announced the establishment of its Nourish Our Kids programme on Campbell Live in February. The new initiative is a long-term commitment to work with Kidscan and help alleviate child hunger—and it fitted in nicely with Campbell Live’s quest to bring attention to and create solutions for child poverty. And now it’s promoting the programme with a simple but effective TV ad showing two very different worlds colliding.

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Hubbards looks to regain its mojo with TV dalliance
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While visiting New York in 1987, Dick Hubbard told his wife Diana about his idea to start a cereal company that would “make New Zealand proud and healthier at the same time”. Since then it has grown into a sizeable business that continues its breakfast battle with big beasts like Sanitarium and Kellogg’s. But it’s trying to up its game with a new integrated campaign via Hunter.

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Infographic: Selling the News, a year-long look at NZ Herald’s front page
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Tired of the increasing “tabloidisation” of news media, James Wendelborn took it upon himself to see if New Zealand’s largest paper had succumbed. During his spare time he collected and analysed the front page of every weekday issue of the NZ Herald in 2012 looking for tawdry tales and what ever the print edition of linkbait is. Last week he revealed the results of his year-long project called Selling the News.

Movings & Shakings
MBM heads further down the digital road with Delany in tow
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Independent media strategy and management agency MBM, which was started in 2010 by Sean McCready and Matt Bale, has been quietly—and fairly successfully—going about its business for the past few years. But it’s got something to shout about now, with ex Sparkie Alysha Delany signing on to become managing partner and shareholder.

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Review: Mailbox App – kick your mail right in the inbox
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Like Eldorado, the fountain of youth and a decent cup of coffee at midnight – achieving inbox zero is a goal many set out on, but very few ever achieve. Mailbox App for iPhone (free from the Apple App Store) helps those on their own journeys to an uncluttered email account, using sleek software which makes you look at Apple’s native Mail client with disdain.

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Ferald takes claws to news reading
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With only so many minutes in the day (1440 to be precise) there’s not much time for lolly-gagging about when looking for which news articles are worth reading and which are not. Ferald is an extension for the Chrome browser which takes the hassle out of this equation for New Zealander news consumers.

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Toyota RAV4 goes on Goodbye Pork Pie adventure
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Car salesmen get a pretty bad rap. All shiny shoes, sparkling teeth and snake oil. And Rav4 owners aren’t typically regarded as being too outrageous. But they’ve been painted in a new light in the new Toyota campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi and Thick as Thieves that aims to celebrate the inherently adventurous spirit in all Kiwis with a good, old-fashioned Goodbye Pork Pie-style road trip.

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Igloo may take six years to break even
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Igloo may take up to six years to break even, says TVNZ. The state broadcaster revealed this information in a written statement to the Commerce Committee, where it says “There is no specific target for sales in the first 12 months as we recognise it could anywhere between 4 – 6 years for the business to reach break-even.”

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The building of ANZ’s uber-track
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Despite the prevalence of high-tech devices, slot-car sets still retain their almost retro allure and TBWA\ and Match Photography took seven hours to construct a rather large track in a living room for ANZ’s latest print ad, as this behind-the-scenes clip shows.

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Pre-rolls! Dad! Hovergolf! Manly! Puppets! Truth! Beyoncé! Moneymakers! The End! Chimpanzee!
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Attack of the pre-rolls as Rhett & Link win at April Fool’s; taking a leaf out of the Dumb and Dumber book, Mentos shows you what not to do; golf suddenly got better; it’s no Guy on a Buffalo, but this chap’s also pretty manly; cereal is the leading cause of puppet self-destruction; truth in advertising; Beyoncé battles herself; HSBC shakes its money-makers in this OTT effort for the Hong Kong Sevens; an overdose of ribald humour and dick jokes in Seth Rogen’s directorial debut for This is the End; a chimpanzee riding on a Segway; 150 years of Perrier celebrated with interactive web experience The Secret Place; anthropomorphic (and very well-dressed) animals; the internet keeps getting weirder with Hadoukening and Vadering; a bevy of unfortunate ad placements; and Google Maps as Persian rugs.

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#SMCAKL: Social media, PR, and using the media to promote products
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Social Media Club Auckland kicked off its first event of the year last week, discussing the use of social media for PR. Following hot on the tracks of the My Food Bag ad vs #ad hubbub, panelists Hazel Phillips (editor at Idealog), Deborah Pead of Pead PR, and David Fisher from the New Zealand Herald deftly argued the merits of using media (particularly journalists) to promote products on Twitter.

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