Monthly Archives: October, 2019
MediaWorks has announced it intends to sell MediaWorks TV as well as its Flower Street property which includes its television head office and studios. It will retain ownership of radio and QMS.
Broadcaster MediaWorks is cutting key local TV comedies. Mediawatch says It’s a further sign of the company’s deepening problems and wider troubles in free-to-air television, and is also a headache for the broadcasting funding agency New Zealand On Air.
On Ponsonby Road, a Lumo digital billboard has been spotted in front of a JCDeaux billboard. StopPress went to the players involved to ask what was going on.
Influencer Month kicks off with New Zealand’s leading influencer marketing platform, Populr. Here, managing director, James Polhill, talks about sparking authentic conversations between brands, influencers and their fans, while reaching millions of customers across all major platforms.
Executive creative directors Lisa Fedyszyn and Jonathan McMahon have resigned from Stanley St.
This week marked New Zealand’s very first Think With Google event, ‘Bridging the Digital Divide’. Here, country director of Google New Zealand Caroline Rainsford shares how these events will help create meaningful business connections.
Women in marketing in New Zealand are curious, creative change-makers. To celebrate their impact on the industry and dive deep into some lively discussions about what it’s like to be a woman in the industry, the Marketing Association is hosting its Women In Marketing event next Tuesday, which is the first of its kind. Speakers on the line up include Anna Dean and Angela Meyer, co-founders of Double Denim, Cassie Roma, head of content marketing at The Warehouse Group, Caitlin Attenburrow, brand manager at Whittaker’s, Julia Jack, chief marketing officer at Mercury and Idealog’s Elly Strang, who will be moderating a panel with some of the previously mentioned women. Read on for more details on where to find tickets.
DB Breweries needed to re-energise its Monteith’s brand so it crafted some fresh packaging, a new brand platform and new brews.
You may of heard of the story that went viral in New Zealand and further abroad about an Auckland man who works in advertising and brought a clown as a support person with him to the redundancy meeting. DDB regional chief creative officer for Australia and New Zealand Damon Stapleton recently hired this man, and shares how the story struck him as an example of how creativity can change the rules of any situation and get your power back.
Last month, New Zealand’s business leaders and their analysts gathered for a deep dive into leveraging data and harnessing insights to drive data-driven decision making throughout their organisations. Erin McKenzie attended the event to learn what organisations need to do to their data-transformation.
AA Insurance brings together a clash of fantasy versus reality in its latest spot via DDB New Zealand.
Everybody cha-cha real smooth for Education New Zealand, BNZ, Huffer and AA Insurance.
Gone is the red building at 22 Stanley Street in Parnell, Auckland as New Zealand’s newest independent agency has taken over. Dubbed Stanley St, the agency is now standing on its own two feet without the support of the Ogilvy name or WPP AUNZ ownership. A bold move to break free from a holding company, Erin McKenzie sits down with the new managing director Ian Rodney to hear what Stanley St stands for.
Stitch, a new advertising and marketing technology consultancy agency, has opened its doors. Stitch is led by co-founders Adnan Khan and Simon Wedde, and along with 30 years joint experience working with big international names, their newest venture is set to combine the best of strategy, data, advertising, and marketing technology to help businesses deliver better customer experiences.
Bank of New Zealand has launched its latest campaign ‘Kids’ Room’ via Colenso BBDO – and for anyone who has shared a room with a sibling, it will strike a chord.
Since 2016, Emily Thorn, a marketing and publicity specialist for Auckland Council, has quickly excelled in marketing with ideas that cut through the marketplace. It’s no surprise her colleagues call her a driven, strategic and creative marketer who is a real asset to the team.
New Zealand Rugby is to take a 5 percent stake in Sky as it unveils a new broadcast deal.
Our weekly dissection of dramatic things, stupid things, and colourful things from inside the international Intertubes. Tirohia te reira, check it out.
To turn Tui’s fortunes around, DB Breweries brewed up a new drink, and while it sports the Tui logo, it’s not a beer.
In the first of a series highlighting the vibrant women in New Zealand business doing great things in their respective fields, Elly Strang, editor of Idealog profiles Hilary Ngan Kee, the head of strategy and a director at award-winning agency Motion Sickness.
Sometimes the brief can miss the mark when expectations are too tight. Here, Insight Creative tells us how the prescribed solution isn’t always the best course of action.
Spark Sport says it has broadcast rights to NZ Cricket fixtures from April 2020 with TVNZ as free to air partner.
Huffer has partnered with the Mental Health Foundation and Kiwi musicians support mental health awareness in a musical campaign by Reload & Smoke.
Education New Zealand has shinned the light on some of the joys of studying on our shores with the help of Special Group. The campaign message encourages potential international students to ‘Ask New Anything’, as they hear the benefits of studying in New Zealand from past students.
Stanley St has put a focus on local talent acquisitions. It’s introducing five new roles into its Wellington office, including Aaron White as head of Stanley St Wellington.
The 2019 Best Awards was held at the Spark Arena on Friday night celebrating the crème de la crème of the design industry. It recognised designers, young and old, for their craft across a range of categories, from graphic to moving image to product design. Most who attended were in agreement that the night was a blast, and resembled the maturing success of the design industry in Aotearoa. Here is a breakdown of the supreme winners.
Shine has welcomed Richard Maddocks to its team as chief creative officer and Andy Schick as digital director.
In the wake of comments in bad taste making their way into StopPress’ comment section, we want to know what you think of the platform and how you’d like to see it used in the future.
From treasure hunts to lenticular images and interactive posters, Phantom Billstickers is generating attention for advertisers and entertaining passerby’s. We talk to its marketing manager Ben Stonyer about Phantom Labs, its creative hub that’s disrupting out-of-home space.