Back for another year, NZ Marketing has selected the best of the bunch in the media business. While the editorial team put their heads together to figure out who and what came out on top for the judges’ choice, our avid StopPress readers with their fingers on the pulse cast 11,293 votes to decide the People’s Choice winners.
Back for another year, NZ Marketing has selected the best of the bunch in the media business. While the editorial team put their heads together to figure out who and what came out on top for the judges’ choice, our avid StopPress readers with their fingers on the pulse cast 11,293 votes to decide the People’s Choice winners.
Back for another year, NZ Marketing has selected the best of the bunch in the media business. While the editorial team put their heads together to figure out who and what came out on top for the judges’ choice, our avid StopPress readers with their fingers on the pulse cast 11,293 votes to decide the People’s Choice winners.
Entries are now open for the 2018 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards. Need a little inspiration for your entry? Take a look at how Mercury
recharged its brand batteries to give the business a jolt of new (wonderful) energy and win last year’s Supreme Award.
Setting up a media business during the global financial crisis might sound like a recipe for disaster but Mindfood is this year marking its 10th anniversary. To learn how it’s evolved over the years, we sit down with editor-in-chief Michael McHugh who reflects on the past, the present and the future of the celebrity endowed local and global content-machine.
In the wake of a flurry of recent agency/client retainer relationships coming to an end and big consultancies enhancing their creative chops, Erin McKenzie goes behind the scenes to find out why more clients are playing the field and focusing on projects and what the impact is on brand and customer experience.
NZME and Stuff have announced this week they will seek leave to appeal a High Court ruling that upheld a Commerce Commission block on their proposed merger. In December the High Court upheld a Commerce Commission ruling not to clear or authorise the merger. With that in mind, we take a look at what industry folk think of the proposed merger and mergers in general.
Every time DDB chief creative officer Damon Stapleton writes, we glimpse at someone who cares deeply about his craft. His opinions aren’t PR pieces masquerading as thought leadership. They’re carefully shaped to nudge this industry in the right direction. Here’s another brilliant example.
Did Pak’nSave/ Foodstuffs really have a sale if Stickman didn’t grace our screens? The animated character, voiced by comedian Paul Ego, demonstrates the retailer’s no-frills approach both through his look and matter of fact, yet humorous tone. And his videos inject some fun into the potentially mundane task of grocery shopping. We asked him some deep questions about his life.
Kiwibank started 2017 by pushing the boundaries of advertising. Wanting to spark a conversation about money and New Zealanders’ behaviour with their finances, the bank, with Ruckus and TVNZ, created a whole TV series called Mind Over Money. General manager of marketing communications Regan Savage explains the move away from the TVC.
Rather than wrapping controversies in a PR blanket, Air New Zealand has taken a more transparent approach, openly admitting its struggles with the gender pay gap, sustainability targets and a range of other issues in a Sustainability Report for 2017. It’s easy to talk about the things that are going well, but it takes a brave business to admit when things go wrong. We talk to head of communications Marie Hosking about the importance of transparency.
Having produced a number of award-winning campaigns, including the ‘Child Replacement Programme’, and most recently given dogs the ability to take the perfect selfie, there’s no doubt the marriage of Pedigree and Colenso BBDO deserved the Client-Agency Partnership of the Year award.
Countdown, TAB, Go Healthy and Goodman Fielder are just some of the clients Y&R has picked up under Josh Moore’s leadership over the last year—all while still developing bold creative work for the likes of Arnott’s and Heinz Wattie’s. Moore may not have been present at any of the awards events this year, but that doesn’t mean his agency wasn’t noticed. Here’s the Y&R boss on what’s driven the agency’s success.
There’s no denying 2017 was a big year for Spark. The telco’s momentum has seen it cement its commitment to delivering great customer experiences, both from a personal and business perspective, with a series of campaigns that made us sit up and pay attention.
Last year saw Vogel’s roll out its first TV campaign in a decade, and it was worth the wait. ‘What do you bring to the table’ sparked discussion, inspired parodies, challenged stereotypes, attracted millions of views and has now also been acknowledged as our campaign of the year. Shine’s head of client services, Tim Ellis, gives us some insight on how it all came together.
A rundown of those who walked home with a treasured doorstop last night.
As the Vice New Zealand team gear up to celebrate Viceland’s first year on Sky and all the work that’s been put in to have local stories heard on Vice, we talk to head of content Frances Morton about finding untold stories, the sustainability of clickbait, agility in a competitive media environment and what’s in store in the future.
With viewability rates as low as 40 percent on supposedly trustworthy local sites, rampant ad fraud costing marketers billions and ads being served alongside objectionable content, Damien Venuto looks at digital advertising’s reputation issues – and why it isn’t always living up to the promise it arrived with.
With rebates, questionable digital dealings and measurement issues plaguing media agencies over the last year, Damien Venuto delves into the murky world of media buying to find out if local clients know what they’re paying for.
All the world’s most successful people tend to make their own luck. And through a combination of talent and tenacity, Joan Withers has become very lucky indeed.
Fire your retailers or stoke the retail fire to warm your customers’ hearts? That question was answered comprehensively by fireplace manufacturer Escea.
Pinning its hopes on a rebrand, the freshly-christened Helloworld knew from the outset that it could not outspend its competitors. The solution? A marketing approach that focused on innovation and the clever use of ‘killer’ o ers to create cut-through rather than competing head-on.
The development of the NZ Olympic Team App by the New Zealand Olympic Committee and sponsor ANZ is a perfect example of teamwork and moving sponsorship to partnership.
In what has become a StopPress tradition, we again present our rundown of the big pitches, the big ideas, the big balls, the big stoushes, the big moves and the big whoopsies. But this year, it comes with a few more bells, whistles and… doorstops.
Looking to tackle a chronic shortage of quality building apprentices, the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO) leapt in, boots and all, to a multistage, cross-platform campaign that managed to win hearts and minds, not just of potential candidates, but traditional and new media too.
New World’s immersive in-store Easter experience broke new ground for the brand, leveraging emerging tech and capturing the hearts and minds of young would-be Easter egg hunters.
Ensuring frontline staff fully engage customers with your product is never an easy task. As New Zealand’s most popular loyalty programme (with over 2.5 million members) but without a physical presence, that disconnect was proving disastrous for Fly Buys. So how do you motivate the wildly diverse frontline staff of Fly Buys’ partners?
2degrees developed a bespoke app that enabled users to hunt down bundles of data and capture them in real time by combining the GPS capability of smartphones with the emerging technology of augmented reality.
With a recognised ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ brand problem, VTNZ had to pull off the impossible. It flipped the script on its negative public image while turning an acknowledged grudge purchase into something resembling a pleasure.
Persuading half a million Kiwis to go online and opt-in sounds like Mission Impossible, especially when the track record’s not that good and the benefits are marginal. But that’s what Spark managed to do.