Author StopPress Team

Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.

Simplot and BC&F Dentsu reintroduce the Chicken Tonight brand to a new generation with the help of director Florence Noble, Eight, and a group of chicken-loving children.

Frucor Suntory has launched V’s new Tortured Orchard product through distressed aesthetic street posters via The Phantom Lab.

There’s nothing quite like a Kiwi road trip and Tourism New Zealand has capitalized on this, launching a global campaign with Augusto that focuses on New Zealand’s warm and welcoming culture.

The results of the second GfK Radio Survey of the year are out and with 86 percent of the New Zealand population (10+) tuning in each week, there plenty for the industry to be happy about.

New Zealand Steel has appointment DDB as the creative agency for both NZ Steel and its various brands including Colorsteel, Steltech and AXXIS.

The New Zealand Snow Industries Federation (NZSIF) has joined with How to Dad’s Jordan Watson to help relaunch its ‘Go Snow’ campaign and encourage Kiwi families back on the slopes.

A round of applause for Skinny, Robert Harris, and NZ Post with New Zealand Red Cross.

Cigna Insurance has launched a new brand campaign with Y&R Wellington that focuses on key life moments.

Clint Eastwood and Sarah Jessica Parker are among the names starring in Skinny’s launch of a new ‘Get the Skinny’ brand platform with Colenso BBDO, the first campaign since the agency’s appointment in May.

QMS NZ has secured an expansion in Auckland bus media formats, with more than 500 roadside and kerbside double-decker and single-decker panels to be added to its offering.

These companies showed us how they put their tools to use and have made it through as finalists in the 2018 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards.

Countdown’s busting out all the rhymes in a new brand platform, its first campaign by Y&R with support from Ogilvy Media.

Robert Harris is telling the story of its founder Bob, with the help of BC&F Dentsu in a colourful, caffeine-fuelled campaign.

Colenso BBDO has decided to go against the grain and put the title of its newest creative director, Max McKeon, up for debate by adopting whatever title StopPress readers choose. 


This year at Cannes, a Grand Prix was awarded in every category but one (Pharma), and two categories, Film and Outdoor, awarded two winners each. We take a look at the standout work

A round of applause for Jetstar, Countdown and the Office for Seniors.

Jetstar’s helped old bandmates play together again its latest campaign via BC&F Dentsu.

Saatchi & Saatchi has been appointed as the agency for the Ministry of Justice’s anti-money laundering initiative alongside Starcom, which won the media component of the pitch.

A round up of what companies have done following the birth of Neve, the daughter of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford.