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A great merge beckons: the closing gap between technology and us
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This week, PHD worldwide strategy and planning director Mark Holden spoke about impending conflation of tech and humanity. He argues that we are already well along this path but says things will become really interesting over the next two decades. What follows is a short excerpt from Merge, a book co-written by Holden and number of other contributors across the PHD network.

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The next big trick is mass media
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Advertising is an industry constantly focused on finding new ways to bedazzle and charm consumers. But in reaching too far into the digital hat, David Thomason reckons advertisers might be losing grip with what made the show effective in the first place.

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A matter of trust: Patrick Gower on improving Newshub’s political polling
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Combining the best of the old with the rise of the new, Newshub has implemented a new methodology that hopes to get opinion polling right. We talk to political editor Patrick Gower on the reasons behind this change, why polling matters, whether politics is becoming a two-horse race and whether we can still trust the polls (and the media) in light of last year’s shock political events.

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How is this still a thing? The TV Guide’s resilience in the digital era
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TV is apparently dead. And as corollary a magazine about TV should already have a strong onset of rigor mortis. However, in a great display of resilience in a fragmented media world, The TV Guide is holding strong as New Zealand’s number one selling magazine. We go back to the magazine’s beginning and talk to editor Julie Eley to see how it’s secured itself as the armchair companion to many New Zealanders.

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A case for the resurrection of mass media
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The promises of targeted digital marketing were big and bold, and marketers and agencies heeded the call. But FCB head of strategy David Thomason argues that we’ve perhaps moved too far and too fast, jettisoning some of the core long-term thinking that has always typified effective marketing.

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MediaWorks’ Hal Crawford on the death of quality journalism, making money from news and standing out on social media
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A news chief claiming that the phrase ‘quality journalism’ should be left to die was always going to spark a bit controversy—even more so when he’s brought in to replace a much-loved stalwart of New Zealand’s news scene, Mark Jennings. We chat to new MediaWorks news chief Hal Crawford about his eyebrow-raising opinion that arrived in New Zealand before he did, the challenges and opportunities of the modern media environment and his aspirations for the organisation.

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