If you catch yourself singing ‘Tegel has the meal for you’ after watching the chicken brands new TVC you will be forgiven.

Fly Buys is helping to make Kiwis’ birthday wishes come true through a quirky online wish machine, developed by one-to-one agency JustOne.

StopPress has received confirmation that 2Degrees has retained Special Group as its creative agency, following a pitching process involving a number of agencies.

​TVNZ, Pandora and Starcom have found a way to make the romance from TVNZ 2’s First Dates New Zealand last all week, with the creation of the ultimate date night station.

Whirling around a cinematically beautiful 19th and 20th century England, Europe and Egypt, the latest Christmas campaign by Burberry is more an epic trailer for a historic dramatisation of the luxury English brand’s founder than a TVC. It’s an action-packed musing on what, Thomas Burberry, might have been.

Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.

Auckland 21-year-olds Harriett Maire and Ferris Bradley’s short film has been chosen as a finalist for a NASA film competition, where the winning film will be enjoyed by astronauts in the International Space Station. Maire explains how the surreal opportunity came to be.

Herbal Essences is taking on cap-crackers in a new campaign running across Australia and New Zealand.

CreateMe managing director Fiona McLeod explains the formation of CreateMe, how it’s going nearly one year in, and where to next for both it and New Zealand media.

In the past year, we’ve seen media organisations take advertising services in-house, with TVNZ Blacksand and NZME’s CreateMe, and now 99 is taking on the work of journalists, by launching its Newsroom, which will see it create editorial content marketing for its clients with a writer and editor. We talk to managing director Paul Manning about how the agency is taking on media organisations.

“Time flames like a paraffin stove and what burns are the minutes I live,” wrote the poet Irving Layton in reference to how quickly life passes us by. And this is a sentiment just as succinctly captured in the 60 seconds of the latest Interislander spot, which tells the story of a daughter taking her father on a well-overdue trip.

We salute Kiwibank, Steinlager, Meadow Fresh, Hallenstein Brothers and Wendy’s.

Virtual reality is proving its use in a number of fields, with the most being to keep travellers occupied at airports.

Is your agency hungry for a freelance creative? Phil Parsonage thinks he has the deal for you.

It might not be the biggest event on the local calendar, but that hasn’t stopped Kiwi brands from having a bit of fun for Halloween.

Tears trickle down facial tattoos, nose rings and beards in Wendy’s latest campaign developed by Augusto.

Travelling to exotic locations, engaging in a range of extreme activities, partying where ever they go and being paid for it, it’s fair to say the ambassadors working for Hallenstein Brothers have made a pretty strong case for having the coolest job in the world (Hallenstein’s is quite lucky that it doesn’t have to advertise on Seek to find contenders for its ads).

It has become familiar experience for internet users to be followed around the internet by a shoe, watch or fem-suit. Retargeting, for the most part, has become part of the online experience, and it’s now set to become even more prevalent with news this week that AdRoll would be extending its retargeting capabilities to email through a new service called SendRoll. The question, however, is whether we really need any more emails.

Earlier this week, Meadow Fresh launched a new campaign to announce the changes to the way it produces its milk by making it less processed and no longer adding permeate. But the changes haven’t been limited to its milk, with a new look logo and bottle also hitting the shelves.

Burger King is celebrating Halloween by reigniting the banter between itself and its fast food rival, by disguising itself as a McDonald’s ghost.