If you’re going to write a “hardcore propaganda manual”, then use propaganda to promote said manual – it’s probably a good idea to make sure your campaign works. Goodness knows, no dictator (whether politician or ad executive) wants to buy propaganda manuals that can’t deliver.
New dad Dan Carter is looking to get his home nice and toasty before Winter, naturally the heat pump spokesman gets his friends from Daikin to help him out. Dan the rugby player meets Dan the installer, it’s a buddy comedy for all ages.
It’s a good year for TVNZ’s digital team with the launch of its iOS apps, a partnership with a major TV manufacturer and now 3 million video streams on its Ondemand service.
TSB Bank is bringing history back with the launch of a new Special Group-created brand campaign taking aim at Aussie-owned banks and Sir Roger Douglas’ financial policies of the late ’80s.
Kordia has sold its residential ISP arm Orcon to a group of New Zealand investors in order to shift focus back to B2B.
Journalism is under “significant threat” from commercial interests, says Scoop Media founder Alastair Thompson, who last week launched the Scoop Foundation to give public interest journalists a sword to fight with.
Start “Wheedling” says a bright green button in an email sent to me over the weekend. Its owner and namesake uses the verb to mean buying and selling online, but in the last six months it’s taken on a new meaning in programming circles – software that fails spectacularly.
Igloo TV and Slingshot have gotten into bed with each other, the former to get inside of more homes and the latter to sweeten the deal for its products.
Amidst news of massive job cuts, Telecom is sprinkling something more positive into the mix with the launch of its new business incubator called Digital Ventures.
Paul Spain isn’t your average media personality. The scruffy haired 40-year-old geek owns IT company Gorilla Technology, has more phones than all the pockets in his wardrobe to hold them in and is incredibly up to date with the latest gossip on the government’s fibre roll out. Spain is a technology podcaster – and he also happens to be the country’s top one at that.
Auckland-based software company Propellerhead held a house-warming party for its new office on Drake Street. The refurbished warehouse space is a stone’s throw away from the redone Victoria Park Markets and boy is it fancy.
The Sony Xperia Z mixes beautiful design on the outside with powerful electronic gadgetry on the inside. The phone gives Samsung a run for its money in the Android market and asks Apple the awkward question: “when are you gonna catch up?”
Eccentric millionaire, technologist and alleged pirate Kim Dotcom is currently sitting at second on Time’s list of 100 most influential people in 2013. In the online poll Dotcom has around 82,000 supporters and 5,400 detractors for his claim as this year’s most influential person.
It’s only taken a year and half, but Google Play Music is finally available in New Zealand.
A time traveller stranded in New Zealand seeks help in the NZ Herald’s classifieds section to go back in time and warn younger self.
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.
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.
Journalists in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but we feel this editorial decision by Stuff should be preserved for posterity.
No, Facebook isn’t releasing a phone. It is however working to further envelop its users into its ecosystem, with the upcoming launch of Facebook Home.
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.
Jib Jab hasn’t completely cornered the market on animations with people’s faces stuck on them, as BNZ Bank clearly shows in its latest Kiwisaver campaign on Facebook.
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.”
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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Bethells Beach and Maori warriors star in Samsung’s latest global TVC campaign.
I gave up on full frame cameras not longer after I got into photography. I have the back of a 60-year-old and the budget of a 20-year-old, neither situation lending itself to owning heavy and expensive kit. Using the Canon EOS 6D this last week makes me reconsider the perks of a nice big 35mm sensors.
St Matthew in the City is a church renowned for its controversial advertising and none have been as notorious as its gay Jesus billboard put up for Christmas last year. Now you too can own this piece of gay rights memorabilia / affront to religion (depending on your position, of course).
‘Nephs’ and ‘aunties’ rejoice as Crown entity Te Mangai Paho (TMP) funds a second season of TV3’s The GC, forking over more than $419,000 towards the production of eight 30-minute episodes.
TV3’s On Demand video service for mobile has been suspended while the broadcaster investigates a breach which allowed an undisclosed number of users to download content to their mobile devices.
2Degrees says chief exec Eric Hertz and his wife on board crashed plane near Kawhia, “unlikely to have survived”.