The latest agency news, campaigns and client wins (and losses) making headlines across Aotearoa.
Nine months into Think TV, we ask chairman Glen Kyne to reflect on what New Zealand’s first television collective has achieved in the last year and what we can look forward to in 2019.
There was plenty to celebrate last night at the Campaign Agency of the Year 2018 Awards as local agencies took to the stage, with DDB New Zealand and Special Group collecting the most gongs.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
Tourism New Zealand and MBIE have created an integrated campaign directly targeting campers to help educate and encourage responsible camping this summer.
A place for sharing news, opinions and pictures of your cat, we take a look at the trends and most tweeted about on New Zealand Twitter for 2018.
It’s difficult for a company to stand out in a crowded marketplace, and not let itself deteriorate among the pressure of its competitors. While Genesis was beginning to age, it decided to breathe new life and purpose into its brand with incredible results.
A round of applause for Lotto NZ, Auckland City Mission and Pak’n Save.
Nielsen has released the sites visited by the most New Zealanders this year and it’s no surprise Google and Facebook remain in the top two spots.
After the global PR disaster of the failed Samsung Note 7, Samsung Electronics NZ’s marketing team wanted to make sure it could communicate directly with customers, and not rely on third-party retailers. We take a look at this year’s best technology.
Stuff is set to increase its coverage of stories that matter to Māori and the New Zealand Chinese community through content sharing agreements with Māori Television and SkyKiwi.
Adshel’s assets are now being rebranded to Ooh Media, following the two companies merging earlier this year.
Radio New Zealand has achieved year-on-year growth in the last GfK results for 2018 – despite the numbers dropping considerably from previous results this year. StopPress talked with RNZ head of radio and music David Allan about the year that was, and what’s to come in 2019.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
While Auckland’s beaches and harbours may look pristine, this isn’t always the case as contaminants can make their way into the water. So, Auckland Council launched a clever initiative to keep swimmers safe and informed. We take a look at this year’s best public sector.
DDB New Zealand been named the Spikes Asia New Zealand Agency of the Year.
News, sports and Hyundai Country Calendar remain at the top of New Zealanders’ television viewing schedules – but the Royal Wedding in May wasn’t far behind.
Lotto New Zealand has released a follow-up to its ‘Amoured Truck’ spot, with characters Ray and Sateesh reunited in a Christmas surprise.
Creating a nationwide team has been key in unlocking Fly Buys’ most important resource: its brand partners’ staff on the frontlines. We take a look at this year’s best B2B.
A bunch of New Zealand’s top tech education figures have come together to create Voluntari.ly, a platform for workers to pass along their skills and resources to students and teachers to help tackle digital education. And this weekend, a hackathon is taking place in Auckland to help build the platform to transfer these skills on.
One man’s struggle for survival at sea has inspired Maritime New Zealand’s latest campaign.
A new out-of-home campaign for Blackmores New Zealand pushes creative boundaries to boost engagement between brands and audiences as oOh!media launches immersive and interactive game, Jandalball.
Round of applause to Hello Fresh, Warehouse Stationery and Barkers.
After three decades of consistent sales and bargains, The Warehouse took the plunge and introduced a new low-price strategy in an effort to stabilise the business model and win back the trust of once-loyal customers. We take a look at this year’s best retail.
PHD Group has rounded out Movember with a record number of moustaches grown, and funds raised, to support awareness for men’s health.
With the knowledge that the fashion industry is a major contributor to environmental waste, menswear brand Barkers has developed a new campaign that sets out the brand’s motivations and values for the future.
Wellington is counting down to Christmas with a digital snow globe for Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency’s (WREDA) annual Wellington Advent Calendar.
Māori Television’s chief executive, Keith Ikin, has told staff he will resign at the end of the year.
With the final radio results of the year out, it brings with it the news that New Zealand radio is in a good place. With 3.32 million New Zealanders (10+) tuning into commercial radio each week, MediaWorks and NZME have reason to celebrate. We break down the results to see how The Rock, Rhema and Newstalk ZB had great performances while The Sound and More FM lost some footing.
Customer intelligence agency Perceptive has announced a planned merger with behavioural science agency Sapien. Both agencies are part of the Clemenger Group.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
Earlier this week, an artwork owned by American Express auctioned off for $38,000 with proceeds going to KidsCan. Now, businesses are being encouraged to see if their offices are home to items that could be donated to charity.
An accidental email has a good outcome for this year’s Christmas as Air New Zealand helps naughty kids make it onto Santa’s nice list.
Kiwibank has announced a search for creative agencies to support the next phase of its growth.
In the lead up to Christmas, activity is ramping up and observing the trends on the Zavy Social Scoreboard over the past month, Air New Zealand has maintained its lead.
MediaWorks and QMS Media Limited have entered into a heads of agreement for a proposed merger of QMS Media’s New Zealand out-of-home, production and digital media business (QMS NZ) and MediaWorks’ radio, TV and digital business
The fourth GfK commercial radio survey has been released today, showing 3.59 million New Zealanders aged 10+ listen to radio each week.