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From the joy of winning gold at the Olympics to the tension of a high-profile murder trial and everything inbetween, a lot can happen in a year. And journalists of all stripes are there to tell those stories, as evidenced by this video, which was created by Web Vision and News Works and kicked off last week’s Canon Media Awards.
As part of our push to remind you marcomms folk to get your entries in for the 2013 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards (entries close 5pm Friday 24 May), we’re asking some past winners to tell us about their glorious victory, what it meant to the business and why these awards are different. Hello there Denise Goodwin, ex-Volkswagen marketing chief and now head of marketing at Flooring Brands.
DraftFCB dominated the analogue section of the One Show Awards with a good haul of metal, and in the interactive section, Clemenger BBDO and Resn were the only Kiwi agencies to get the nod.
A round up of the news from Google’s I/O conference, including news of a new streaming music service, redesigns everywhere, map goodness and tools for frazzled Android developers.
Ever wondered how David Ogilvy wrote an ad? Well wonder no more, because Letters of Note has shown us with a response to a question from Mr. Calt that is featured in The Unpublished David Ogilvy: A Selection of His Writings from the Files of His Partners.
After trekking through remote New Zealand with five Nikon D800 cameras, 16 lenses, 30 batteries, and four tripods and bespoke rigs, photographer and artist Joe Michael and his crew were able to shoot parts of New Zealand that many never see. And the end result is Dark Cloud: White Light, a new media arts project showing at Pataka Art + Museumfrom July 14—October 13.
The footy nuts at NZ Rugby World have taken some time off from analysing the ruck to kick off a new digital edition of the magazine – live now on Apple’s Newsstand for iPad.
Hosts Paul Spain and Sim Ahmed pick the brain of former Telecom social media manager and current New Zealand Cricket online and social manager Richard Irvine about his career as the voice (and face) of the country’s largest telco on Twitter and Facebook.
Kickstarter has hosted (and funded) some dubious ideas in its time. There’s even a website dedicated to the weirdest of the bunch. But Kurt Braunohler’s Cloud Project, which raised over $6,000 to have ‘How do I land?’ written in the sky above Los Angeles, is one of our favourites.
From the launch party being held in the rural Australian town of Wee Waa to the recording session that Pharrell Williams apparently doesn’t remember after being given a mysterious pill to Alan Partridge ‘Getting Lucky’, it’s hard to think of an album launch in recent times that’s had more attention than Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories (you can stream the whole album via iTunes ahead of its official release here on Friday). But let’s just hope that Brassft Punk gets the attention it deserves too.
String Theory and Buck’s ‘Metamorphosis’ for Oxfam’s Good Books charity was a deserving winner of the craft grand prix at the Axis Awards last week. The visual craft involved in such a production is fairly obvious. But the sonic craft is less so. Thankfully, creative music studio Antfood has put together a behind-the-scenes case study to show how it concocted its crazy audio brew.
Ever wondered what would happen if instead of feeding the trolls on social media, you tried to beat them to a pulp? Well, thanks to Amy’s Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro, a restaurant in Arizona that Gordon Ramsay was unable to help as part of his Kitchen Nightmares show, we now know. And it’s not pretty.
It’s goodbye to the O’Connors, Caulton and MediaWorks go steady, Adshel welcomes a new marketing manager, Haystac adds three to the pile, The Sweet Shop focuses on features with big new partnership, Spark PR and Activate joins The Collective and Aamplify raamps it up with a new hire.
Netflix has released the trailer for the fourth season of cult comedy show Arrested Development and it’s full of more inside jokes than you can shake a Cornballer at (of course you wouldn’t shake a Cornballer because it’s likely burn your flesh off).
The Canon Media Awards celebrated the best of New Zealand’s print and online media industry on Friday night. But the category closest to the main sponsor’s heart is obviously photography. So have a look at some of the country’s best news-related images from the past year.
The final round of the Outstanding Radio Creativity Awards (ORCA) is now done and dusted. A pair of creatives from Clemenger BBDO is $500 richer and a step closer to a trip to the Cannes Lions.
The Canadians won the space race the moment they sent commander Chris Hadfield into space. In his time aboard the International Space Station he’s taken gorgeous photos of New Zealand, answered numerous questions on Reddit and still found time to undertake the sciency things the Canadians sent him into space to do in the first place.
As evidenced by the Axis exhibition in the Viaduct Events Centre last week, it’s good to see all the work done in one year in one place. And Saatchi & Saatchi and Flying Fish did just that as part of the Axis festivities, with a clip showing some of the quality video content created by local agencies and directors in 2012/2013.
As part of our push to remind you marcomms folk to get your entries in for the 2013 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards (there’s still 15 days left) we’re asking some past winners to tell us about their glorious victory, what it meant to the business and why these awards are different. Here’s why Geoff Matthews, director of BrandCom and winner of awards for Mt. Cook Alpine Salmon, Red Witch guitar pedals and taxrefunds.co.nz, reckons you should enter.
As purveyors of only the finest typos here at StopPress, we couldn’t help but notice this gem from last night’s Axis awards, where the name of a certain lifetime achievement award recipient was spelled wrong. Devo is thought to have demanded a public hanging to boost morale.
Kiwi in the mix for IT PR awards, new planner on board the Air NZ plane for DraftFCB, Pead brings on more young talent, and fashion firepower for Starseed.
Last year, Clemenger BBDO’s Ghost Chips won a yellow pencil at D&AD the same night it was snubbed at Axis. But this time the planets were in alignment, because DraftFCB’s grand axis winning Driving Dogs for Mini and SPCA has also won a prestigious gold pencil in the integrated branding, consumer campaign category at the One Show.
To draw attention to the role Red Cross plays in New Zealand and around the world—and to raise more money so it can keep doing it—Y&R NZ and Flying Fish have created an animated TVC that follows the instantly recognisable white and red box through a range of crises the charity deals with.
DraftFCB’s senior copywriter Peter Vegas wasn’t there in person to see Driving Dogs clean up at Axis (he was in New York collecting a few other awards the campaign had won). But, with the help of a few cardboard masks, he was there in spirit.
As part of our push to remind you marcomms folk to get your entries in for the 2013 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards (there’s still 15 days left) we’re asking some past winners to tell us about their glorious victory, what it meant to the business and why these awards are different. Here’s why Simon Coley, design director of Powershop and co-founder of All Good, reckons you should enter.
Jesse Mulligan said he wanted to be the Jon Stewart of New Zealand before he started his role as host of Seven Sharp. ‘Tis a noble goal. But after watching this deeply concerning, very funny and downright brilliant three-part series on The Daily Show about the gun control debate and how Australia managed to achieve what the US gun lobby says is impossible, who’s going to be New Zealand’s John Oliver?
On what would have been the 93rd birthday of American graphic designer and film-maker Saul Bass, Google has honoured him with a doodle.
It was good to see NZTA and Clemenger BBDO taking a slightly different approach to road safety with the Drive Social campaign (although it would’ve been good to see that sentiment translated into a usable ride-sharing initiative). But Formula E Indoor Raceway in Manukau obviously thinks there’s still room for a bit of road rage, just on its track rather than in public.
As part of our push to remind you marcomms folk to get your entries in for the 2013 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards, we’re asking some past winners to tell us about their glorious victory, what it meant to the business and why these awards are different. Here’s what Dave Shoemack, ex-DB Export marketing manager and now global marketing manager for Heineken’s Sol brand, had to say.
Samsung has upped its marketing game in recent years. But it’s reached new heights in India with a magnificent performance of what is undoubtedly the best song ever written about a phone.