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Tasty Pot Co., which creates apparently nutritious, microwavable meals, has just released new packaging that gives you all the information about the product you need, including cooking instructions. But for some weird reason, it doesn’t seem to have finished the instructions for how to hangi your meal. StopPress investigates.
For those who struggle to consume dry articles about the economy, it might have just been made a bit quicker and easier with NZME’s Economy Hub, a content video series which is essentially a short weekly panel show tackling topical economic issues sponsored by HSBC.
Industry happenings at TVNZ, NZME, Māori Television, Anthem, JustOne, Marsden Inch and The Instillery.
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A King’s College advertisement encouraging teens to find themselves seems to suggest they could build themselves as well.
You know that mud you see slow-motion spinning from the wheels of jeeps in ads, as they bounce and careen around puddles in some gritty, rugged landscape? Well, sadly city-dwelling jeep drivers miss out on the muddy aesthetic, so Jeep Germany has come up with a solution.
TVNZ has just announced its new male orientated channel, Duke, will be live-streamed online and free to view on Freeview and on SKY from March 20.
AA’s furry, paddock-dwelling mascots Ramsey and Lambert are back again to get the New Zealand public interested in life cover insurance via a campaign by Rainger & Rolfe.
It’s that time of year again, the finalists of the Axis Awards have just been announced and Colenso BBDO/Proximity is well ahead with 85 entries, followed by FCB with 58, Y&R with 51 and last year’s biggest winner (which also took home Creative Agency of the Year), DDB with 33.
Prime TV has unveiled a new, colourful look to coincide with the new programming schedule for its 2016 season.
Following on from its 2014 spot for Nova Energy (a subsidiary of Todd Corporation), Clemenger BBDO has brought back Greg Grover—and his incessant rhyming—for another spot. But this time it comes with an inadvertent game of broken telephone (whispers/the messenger game/or the somewhat racist Chinese whispers).
Westpac has taken a cheeky approach to its promotional push with a poster encouraging potential customers to go in and chat to one of its consultants. Rather than taking the usual approach of promising expert advice, the bank is tapping into the shame people often feel about their finances.
Do you want to travel through space? Well NASA might not be ready for that yet, but its latest works of art might have you thinking otherwise.
Hallenstein Brothers, NZ Rugby, ANZ and MediaWorks step up to the podium this week.
As lovers young and old were celebrating their affections for one another yesterday, brands too made the most of Valentine’s Day by shooting their spend-inducing arrows at susceptible couples. Here are a few examples of how brands attempted to court couples’ wallets this year.
Numbers are taking over the world of professional sport, as data on the speed, acceleration and biometrics of athletes becomes increasingly important to coaches and managers. And when they need this type of info, they turn to Richard Snow and the tech behind his company VX Sport.
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A Chicago artist is giving Airbnb users a rare opportunity to step inside a Vincent Van Gogh painting for the night.
ANZ’s latest student banking campaign taps into the creative student culture to prove ‘Fortune Favours the Brave’, with the help of international dance star Parris Goebel.
Never has anyone been so enthusiastic over crockery. Jet.com have released a Super bowl ambush campaign, taking the mickey out of the competition in an effort to sell bowls.
Their business has been called the ‘unsexy side of marketing’ by one of New Zealand’s leading business publications, but the partners of Auckland-based digital marketing firm Search Republic aren’t bothered. Two years after launch, the search-based consultancy is delivering outstanding – and seductive – results. And it’s only just getting started.
In the build up to Jono and Ben’s return to television this Friday, MediaWorks has released a new campaign, which puts the dynamic duo in a bunch of different cinematic settings to reflect the show’s themes. The campaign is in conjunction with another for fellow Friday night favourite, 7 Days.
The Cannes Festival of Creativity has released a short video clip celebrating the moments that inspire people to become creative.
Last year, we were blessed with the brilliant piece of satire that is Activewear by content creators The Skit Box (and distributed via the Van Vuuren Bros YouTube channel). As the saying goes imitation is the best form of flattery—and imitation has arrived via Auckland Theatre Company (ATC).
It’s not about the destination it’s about the journey, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous quote and now Corona.
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Donald Trump’s hair is holding on tight in the latest effort to take the mickey out of the presidential candidate.
Saatchi & Saatchi/ Interactive Solutions Poland and Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland have teamed up with GSK, a research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare company, to fight the flu during Poland’s winter by placing a thermo-scanner camera in Warsaw. The camera measures the users temperature to assess whether or not they have a fever, a symptom of flu, before taking a photo.
Remember on planes when tea was served in porcelain instead of polystyrene? Well, if you don’t, Air New Zealand and True have offered a snapshot by delving into the airline’s past and taking News Works’ Newspaper Ad of the Month award for January with it.
