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See the world from the perspective of our feathered friends with Getty’s compilation of the best aerial footage from 2013.

What sorcery is this? Six of the country’s most experienced admen—Mike Hutcheson, Ross Goldsack, David Walden, Peter Cullinane, Sandy Moore and Roger MacDonnell—were spotted feasting at renowned advertising haunt Cibo on Friday. This gathering certainly wouldn’t have happened a few years back. So what’s brought them together? The only logical explanation is the launch of a new advertising agency.

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, DraftFCB has came up with a campaign for Prime that enabled fans of the show to send an audio transmission of their voices on a voyage to the moon. UPDATE: feedback from DraftFCB about the campaign.

Chairman of Ideaworks Jon Bird discusses what Kiwis can expect to learn about the future of retail from Steve Brown and David Roth at the Westfield Breakfast Seminar that is scheduled to run at the Langham on 19 November. In addition to discussing the speakers’ areas of expertise, Bird also touches on some of the innovations that are going to be unleashed on the retail world in the next few years.

We posted a whole host of fancy, often fantastical and fairly big budget Christmas ads from overseas a few days ago. Now Sainsbury’s has joined the fray, and it’s knocked it out of the park with its emotional, user-generated festive film.

Brands are pretty keen to get themselves on the big screen these days. And, as Dodge has shown with Ron Burgundy, fictional characters make for pretty good spokespeople. So what do you say L’Oréal? It’s a match made in heaven—literally.

Nestle in South Africa went all sweet and gooey on the recent launch of Android’s KitKat OS with an exhibition of 3D printed chocolate sculptures. The 10 sculptors managed to resist scoffing their works of art before putting them on display.

The New Zealand Herald has just hit its 150th birthday milestone. So what better time to look back on happier, simpler and more profitable times for the newspaper. StopPress takes a look at some vintage Herald ads.

GE is celebrating staging a concert in New York’s Union Square with the latest instalment in its Brilliant Machines campaign. The star act is literally heavy metal: it’s a group of robots named Fingers, Bones and Stickboy.

Don’t you hate it when you miss your bus, a meeting, or are forced to sleep rough in a cafe because they turned out the lights a and left without you realising? That’s what happens to the unfortunate schmucks in AT&T’s promo for a zero down offer on the latest iPhones.

The jandals are out in force, many have had the first sunburn of the season and the beaches are filling up. Summer is almost upon us once again, so to celebrate the closeness of the great yellow orb, here’s Getty’s top-selling beach-moment images in New Zealand.

The Condescending Corporate Brand is a very entertaining Facebook page that takes aim at ridiculous attempts by brands to ‘engage’ with ‘fans’ on ‘social media’. And Countdown has made it onto that list by asking its fans to take part in a “fruity showdown”.

Jono and Ben recently referred to the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) by its old acronym LTSA. In reponse to this verbal misstep, Anthony Frith, the media manager at NZTA, sent the pair a sensational email.

You know what the world needs more of? Shoes, that’s what. There simply aren’t enough options. So thankfully, in the spirit in past comebacks like Griffin’s Choco-ade, Twinkies, Temuera Morrison and Dunlop Volleys, Bata Bullets will soon be back by popular demand and adorning the feet of hipsters and nostalgic types everywhere.

Toronto-based John St. has moved on from case studies and catvertising to the treacherous world of prankvertising.

Ah, November. A time of joy, facial hair, commercial oneupmanship and retailers and marketers already trying to grease the wheels of consumerism with their Christmas campaigns. New Zealand doesn’t seem to have been too badly affected by early Christmas fever yet, but the UK is already running a very high temperature, with John Lewis, Cadbury and a few others launching their efforts, many of them long-form.

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The Listener’s – intended or unintended – jab at KiwiRail is a fine example of satire.