NZME has launched a full in-house programmatic sales team dedicated to its advertising agency partners – the day after KPEX announced its closure.
Monthly Archives: August, 2019
Sky Television has been fined $4000 for showing extensive footage of the 15 March terrorist attacks taken from the alleged gunman’s livestream.
Publicis Groupe has acquired independent customer experience agency Affinity ID and is set to relaunch it under the Digitas brand as Digitas Affinity ID.
Back for another year, NZ Marketing has selected the best of the bunch in the media business. While the editorial team put their heads together to figure out who and what came out on top for the judges’ choice, our avid StopPress readers with their fingers on the pulse cast 4,507 votes to decide the People’s Choice winners.
Spark New Zealand’s annual results show profit growth, stronger operating margins and market share gains while it looks to a future of 5G, cybersecurity, streaming and automation.
New Zealand could have a billion dollar interactive media and gaming industry within five years, a new government report has found.
KPEX, the Kiwi Premium Ad Exchange consortium created in 2015 by Stuff, NZME, Mediaworks and TVNZ, is to close.
Industry happenings at Fuman, NZME, Perceptive, Rush and Adhesive.
A round of applause for KiwiRail and TrackSafe NZ, Electric Kiwi and Sealy of Australia.
Andrew Reinholds, managing partner at OMD, has announced his departure.
We’ve given the mic to the industry’s future leaders. Jordyn Rudd, a television producer and reporter at TVNZ, shares her thoughts on New Zealand’s media.
The Social Club CEO and co-founder Georgia McGillivray on the rise of influencer-generated content.
WPP AUNZ has entered into an agreement to sell 100 percent of its interests in the Kantar businesses in Australia and New Zealand (Kantar).
Back for another year, NZ Marketing has selected the best of the bunch in the media business. While the editorial team put their heads together to figure out who and what came out on top for the judges’ choice, our avid StopPress readers with their fingers on the pulse cast 4,507 votes to decide the People’s Choice winners.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
Deals, expansions and acquisitions across the industry.
Registrations have opened for the NZ Marketing Leaders’ Summit next month and there’s a special offer for StopPress readers to get a discounted ticket.
For Rail Safety Week, KiwiRail, TrackSafe New Zealand and DDB have launched a campaign to remember the near misses suffered daily by train drivers.
A new ANZ Smart Daffodil is being rolled out for the Cancer Society to mark Daffodil Day. The new pin, by TBWA, turns anyone who wears it into a fundraiser for the charity.
At the end of last month advertising executives strolled around Sydney’s iconic Luna Park for Advertising Week APAC, attending workshops and seminars from global industry leaders on topics ranging from mental health to the future of media. Georgina Harris attended the annual conference and heard from Facebook’s global marketing officer Antonio Lucio about diversity, regulation and rebuilding its reputation.
Kiwi Catherine Brands is the Microsoft global industry marketing director of retail and consumer goods, and was also one of the founding team members to launch Amazon Go – the world’s first grocery store without a checkout. This week, she spoke at the CX Conference 2019 about ‘P2P’ marketing and how companies, big and small, can ensure they’re placing people first.
Publicis Groupe ANZ has announced the acquisition of New Zealand’s independent, full-service media agency MBM.
Back for another year, NZ Marketing has selected the best of the bunch in the media business. While the editorial team put their heads together to figure out who and what came out on top for the judges’ choice, our avid StopPress readers with their fingers on the pulse cast 4,507 votes to decide the People’s Choice winners.
I recently attended the Digital Day Out (DDO) and noted that pretty much every speaker spoke about the need to be authentic. Speakers included a Google exec, a panel of social influencers, an AR/VR specialist and an online e-sports gaming marketer. I couldn’t help but laugh at the irony of a whole bunch of people making money by distorting reality espousing the virtues of authenticity. It made me question my own interpretation of what authenticity is.
With less than four percent of New Zealanders registered as donors, New Zealand Blood Service is calling on the country to join the ‘Biggest Reserve Bench’ with the help of Sir Graham Henry and YoungShand.
With many conferences and seminars costing $1,200.00 or more, our goal is to create a day that the whole team can come along to at only $395.00 + GST per ticket! Marketing and brand managers along with business owners can look forward to leaving with new plans, new ideas, new learnings and new connections
Once upon a time our major media companies and telcos were none of each others’ business. Now they are all up in each others’ business because of ‘convergence’ driven by digital technology and the internet. TVNZ’s board told the government it won’t be getting a return in this crowded market and this week media bosses told Mediawatch the big players can’t all survive in it much longer.
Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) New Zealand has announced the appointment of two leadership roles. Rachel Anderson-Cormack has been appointed head of commercial operations and DAN solutions, alongside Guy Cousins who joins the network as group head of strategy.