With the final radio results of the year out, it brings with it the news that New Zealand radio is in a good place. With 3.32 million New Zealanders (10+) tuning into commercial radio each week, MediaWorks and NZME have reason to celebrate. We break down the results to see how The Rock, Rhema and Newstalk ZB had great performances while The Sound and More FM lost some footing.
Monthly Archives: November, 2018
Customer intelligence agency Perceptive has announced a planned merger with behavioural science agency Sapien. Both agencies are part of the Clemenger Group.
The finalists for the 2018 NZDM Awards have been announced and with 18 finalists across 11 unique campaigns, it’s Colenso BBDO leading the way.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
Earlier this week, an artwork owned by American Express auctioned off for $38,000 with proceeds going to KidsCan. Now, businesses are being encouraged to see if their offices are home to items that could be donated to charity.
An accidental email has a good outcome for this year’s Christmas as Air New Zealand helps naughty kids make it onto Santa’s nice list.
Graham Medcalf takes a look at the week that was, covering meaning-of-life, diversity in ad agencies, the value of technology and the future of Sky TV.
Nikki Wright, managing director of Wright Communications, writes about her learnings and observations after attending the PRovoke18 Conference in Washington DC.
Kiwibank has announced a search for creative agencies to support the next phase of its growth.
In the lead up to Christmas, activity is ramping up and observing the trends on the Zavy Social Scoreboard over the past month, Air New Zealand has maintained its lead.
MediaWorks and QMS Media Limited have entered into a heads of agreement for a proposed merger of QMS Media’s New Zealand out-of-home, production and digital media business (QMS NZ) and MediaWorks’ radio, TV and digital business
The fourth GfK commercial radio survey has been released today, showing 3.59 million New Zealanders aged 10+ listen to radio each week.
Last night, at Sky City’s Bar Twenty-One, New Zealand’s PR, brand experience, events and social media industry professionals celebrated the best campaigns from the last year at the inaugural PREScom Awards.
The latest short film from Flying Fish director James Solomon captures the existential anguish of the creative industries with a simple and effective metaphor: a hole.
Testicular Cancer New Zeland and FCB have launched the ‘Testimatic’, the world’s first ‘Auto Ball Checker’ – a device that allows men to have their testicles checked for irregularities and lumps without the awkwardness of being face-to-face with a doctor.
Media company Stuff has confirmed it will axe 19 jobs at its community papers in Auckland and Northland.
DB Export is continuing its mission to save the world by releasing paperless newspaper ads “printed” on radio.
TRA’s Colleen Ryan looks at the importance of understanding the nuances of new migrants to New Zealand.
Round of applause to Auckland Transport, Stirling Sports and Air New Zealand.
3.6 million Chinese tourists are expected to visit NZ over the next five years – but seeing the benefits of this tourism boom isn’t as simple as putting an ‘open for business’ sign on the front window.
The Nielsen National Readership Survey figures for Q4 2017 – Q3 2018 have been released and it’s not all doom and gloom for print.
October was a wonderful month for advertising, but there can only be one winner of the Colmar Brunton Ad Impact Award. For October it went to Kiwi Bacon with their ad ‘Kiwi Bacon – 100% New Zealand Free Farmed.’
Getting folks to spend money on icy peaks and ski fields in summer is no easy task. But, NZSki managed to beat the odds and rise to new heights. We take a look at this year’s best in-house branding.
Stuff has announced its latest media partnership with Bauer Media Group. The partnership will see Stuff publish content from Bauer’s current affair and lifestyle titles.
Shout Media has announced an exclusive street poster contract with Vector Limited.
Māori Television is replacing news and current affairs shows next year with a ‘Māori Media Hub’ to deliver “news as it happens” online and on TV. Mediawatch asks its chief editor why – and how that will be done.
Sky TV has appointed Martin Stewart as its CEO, following John Fellet’s decision to retire at the end of the year.
Youth and fashion have been combined in the latest campaign from Stirling Sports by Motion Sickness.
Industry happenings at NZME, Māori Television and Curious Film.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.