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The Faces of our Industry: Melissa Taylor
The world is changing, and with it agencies are changing too. From gender balance, diversity and inclusion, there are waves of progress happening across the board.…
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In honour of World TV Day
StopPress takes a trip down memory lane – pre-Netflix and Chill – to revisit some of the most memorable TVCs from the 80s, 90s and early…
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There’s no I in Team: Xero’s Craig Hudson talks small business wellbeing
Recently launched, Xero’s wellbeing check-in system allows small business leaders to better connect with their team and ensure they are being looked after. Here, we talk…
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Social Guru: Culture’s Ryan Newton discusses the power of social media for retail
With Covid-19 rocking the retail industry into uncertainty, social media has become an extremely helpful tool for elevating brand presence and driving sales. Here we talk…
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On Axis, industry advice, and inspiring creativity with Maria Devereux
Colenso’s Maria Devereux is an ode to a creative career, being at the helm of many award winning ideas, and now being dubbed the Convenor for…
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Sustainability is King: oOh!media takes us through the power of a sustainable focus
Leading New Zealand in out of home advertising, oOh!media are always looking at ways to improve. With a strong belief of eco practices, the company’s current…
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Are Kiwis changing the channel on TV?
Our New Zealand television landscape has shifted greatly due to local and international advancements. Here, we asked some of our industry leaders their thoughts on the…
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Go global or stay local? Part two
Graham Medcalf talks to intrepid independent-agency owners and some globally-aligned stalwarts to interrogate the advantages and disadvantages of advertising independence. __________________________________ Does practice makes perfect? Being…
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Go global or stay local? Part one
Graham Medcalf talks to intrepid independent-agency owners and some globally-aligned stalwarts to interrogate the advantages and disadvantages of advertising independence. __________________________________ “We have the best people…
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Outdoor Bounty
Forget the doom and gloom for a moment – there’s one sector at least that’s doing bumper business, explores Jonathan Cotton; Out-of-home advertising. Driven by digitization,…
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How is this still a thing? A severe case of the jingles
Let’s talk about jingles, an advertisement method the majority of us love to hate. Repetitive, cheesy and annoying, many of the jingles I have heard in…
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International Women’s Day and the leaders building the industry up one day at a time
International Women’s Day was yesterday, and to celebrate five of our industry’s top women gave us their thoughts on the issues we’re still facing in 2020…
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BC&F Dentsu’s Bex Radford on cultivating creativity, empathy, and radical collaboration
BC&F Dentsu introduced its new creative partner in 2019, Bex Radford. Coming from Amsterdam to work with the agency, Courtney Devereux sits down with Radford to…
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Two minutes in Tokyo with Carl van Wijk
Carl van Wijk, creative director and content producer in Japan, takes us through the advertising scene of Tokyo compared to his home of New Zealand, as…
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Helping shape a nation: 80 years of the New Zealand Listener
This year Bauer Media’s New Zealand Listener celebrates its 80th anniversary. StopPress sat down with editor Pamela Stirling to talk about the anniversary issue, reflect on…
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Why pay for an ad that’s half exposed? Dr Karen Nelson-Field explains why visibility is king
Reach, frequency, impact; they’re three words bandied about in the industry as objectives for advertising and could have been the subjects of a bingo game at last month’s presentation from Dr Karen Nelson-Field of The University of Adelaide’s Centre for Amplified Intelligence. Her research strips down each advertising platform to take a look at how each draws attention and results in sales. And with her findings showing TV drives more overall attention and sales, she argues advertisers should be buying ads that are 100 percent visible.
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You’ve got data – now what? Part two
Adland is full of conversations about data – what to collect and how to collect it, how to draw insights from it and how to craft…
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Human of the Year: Catherine Harris on inspiration, motivation and smashing the glass cliff phenomenon
At the end of 2019, Catherine Harris, CEO of TBWA, took home the Human of the Year Award in our third annual Stoppies Awards night. The judges…
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You’ve got data – now what? Part one
Adland is full of conversations about data – what to collect and how to collect it, how to draw insights from it and how to craft…
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Don’t try to sell, help to buy: Track’s Andy Bell on understanding the customer journey
Following a year of significant growth for Track New Zealand, with new clients and a double in headcount, Erin McKenzie talks to managing director Andy Bell…
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Looking back on 25 years of digital advertising – Part two
As total digital revenue in New Zealand continues to climb, it’s time to look back at how we got here and celebrate the first 25 years…
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Looking back on 25 years of digital advertising – Part one
As total digital revenue in New Zealand continues to climb, it’s time to look back at how we got here and celebrate the first 25 years of digital advertising. Graham Medcalf talks to a few digital pioneers, as they reminisce and reflect on a quarter of a century of struggle against the odds.
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TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards 2019 best public sector: Health Promotion Agency
To teach Māori and Pacific populations how to recognise and respond to a stroke, Health Promotion Agency / Te Hiringa Hauora gave the existing FAST campaign…
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Amplifying voices: How Women in Urbanism Aotearoa got women speaking out about harassment
Last year, Women in Urbanism Aotearoa took our streets to social media in an enlightening Stop Street Harassment campaign. Following some time in the public eye,…
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Proving Purpose: How New Zealand brands drive meaning from within
Society is constantly evolving, and whether those changes are to everyone’s tastes or not – everybody has a role to play in a changing world. In…
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TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards: NZ Aids Foundation educates its community, wins Not-for-Profit Award
With an ambitious goal of ending new transmissions of HIV by 2025, the NZ Aids Foundation is on a mission to educate its community about sexual…
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TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards: The Edge/MediaWorks win Media/Publishing Award for daring campaign
To get New Zealanders listening to The Edge for longer, MediaWorks locked up its announcers and challenged fans to find them, release them and win some…
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A collision of storytelling and technology: Wrestler’s Ben Forman on the agency’s direction, fostering creativity and helping talent thrive – PART TWO
Following Wrestler’s move to a new studio space, Erin McKenzie went down to Wellington to check it out and talk to co-founder and chief executive Ben…
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TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards: Blis Technologies cures its position, wins Healthcare/Beauty Award
How do you reposition a brand after 18 years in the market? Blis Technologies found its solution in going to the root of the problem to…
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The Faces of our Industry: Sharee Campbell
Here at StopPress, we care about your industry and like you, want to see it thrive. With that in mind, we’ve teamed up with the Commercial…