Monthly Archives: November, 2016

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BNZ embraces etymology to make a point about mortgages
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When creating a marketing campaign, ‘death’ and ‘pledge’ are typically words to avoid, unless you want your customers to think you are locking them into something sinister. But BNZ and Colenso BBDO have purposefully pulled these unused words out of the hat to create a new meaning for mortgages across a technical campaign.

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Trump shy: why the polls missed the Republican voters
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It’s been a year of unexpected outcomes in the sporting world and now in the US as voters turned out for Donald Trump to elect him as president. But even with such a support for Trump, the polls didn’t see it coming. Perhaps they should have taken guidance from the animals who tapped, ate and sniffed Trump more than they did Clinton. A Siberian polar bear named Felix, an Indian fish named Chanakya, a Chinese monkey named Geda and a group of puppies all proved a better informant than the polls when predicting the win. So where did it go wrong for the polls? We talk to to a group of New Zealand researchers about the validity of polls and how the prediction method could be improved.

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Audience hoodwinked by John Lewis imposter
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There’s been a buzz on the internet over the last few days as the highly anticipated John Lewis Christmas ad appeared to have launched. However, the 86-second story about a snowman was not the work of the UK retailer, instead it was produced by a student as part of their A-Levels.

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From humble beginnings: how Justin Harwood’s High Road web series became more than just a hobby
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Side projects are nothing new in the industry. Most creatives have a few quirky non-commercial ideas they work on outside of work hours. But for that to go from a hobby project to a global success is not an everyday story. However, achieving just that is Justin Harwood, director and founder of Tomorrowland Sound and Vision, and director and producer of the international award winning High Road web series. As the series enters its third season, we talk to Harwood about its humble beginning, the idea of companies funding content and how creatives can make it big on the Internet.