Author StopPress Team

With the Commerce Commission ruling against an NZME/Fairfax merger, we take a look back at some instances where a merger hasn’t quite worked out for the best.

The Green Party, Electrolux, Survivor New Zealand and Spark Lab show us how it’s done.

With US gun laws not strong enough to protect the country’s citizens from gun violence, Ogilvy & Mather Chicago has created a bulletproof poster to do the job.

Burger King Israel is getting into the spirit of Israeli Independence Day by giving its fans some barbeque practice via their phones.

Virtual reality technology has recently emerged as the shiny new tool for marketers and Land Rover has jumped on the trend to sell its SUVs before they’ve even arrived in the country.

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

Darryl McClay, longtime CEO of shopper marketing agency Raydar, will be leaving the agency at the end of June. Managing director Troy Fuller has been announced as his replacement.

Been on Tinder lately and come across a white rhino? Don’t be fooled, that’s not what New Zealand blokes look like. The profile is a campaign to save Sudan, the world’s last male white rhino.

Spark Lab is on a mission to show that it offers more than just events, so it’s pulled in Sir Ray Avery, Dame Rosanne Meo, Dr Michelle Dickinson (aka Nano Girl) and Eat my Lunch co-founder Lisa King for a new campaign to demonstrate the leadership and mentoring that’s on offer to businesses that get involved.

Spark’s data analytics subsidiary Qrious has launched a new survey aimed at looking at the issues marketers are most concerned about.

Whittaker’s is no stranger to looking to its past. This time, it’s taken inspiration from a 1930s classic to launch its latest Toffee Milk range, but not without a bit of help from a horse and cart.

Kudos to Boundary Road Brewery, Merdian Energy and Whittaker’s Chocolate.

For this, the 102nd anniversary of Anzac Day, the RSA aimed to appeal to an increasingly cashless society while also highlighting the important work it does with modern veterans.

With more than 70 percent of Brazilians reported to have never stepped foot inside a museum, ‘The Voice of Art’, powered by IBM Watson, is making gallery visits a far more interactive pursuit.

At the close of 2016, Netflix had broken the threshold of one million subscribers in New Zealand and Lightbox had doubled its numbers since 2015. However, that’s not to say New Zealanders are choosing sides, with Roy Morgan Research showing that they’re happy to dip into different services.

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

Panasonic has rolled out a global campaign featuring a film you’ll never see.