There’s a lot going on in the world of media. Each week new updates see platforms change and communication habits follow suit. So how can marketers keep up? In a new series we talk to people in the industry about what the updates mean to marketers. This week we look at how Instagram’s Carousel ads have evolved to increase creative expression through video, a feature New Zealand marketers will be able to use on the platform as of next week.

Ever started watching a film on a plane but then inconveniently arrived at your destination? Air France has the solution.

VTNZ staff simply cannot contain their excitement about getting drivers back on the road if the company’s latest campaign by Assignment Group and MBM is anything to go by.

The fast-food chain appears to be stepping beyond the its greased-up chicken menu and into beauty products with KFC Hong Kong creating edible nail polish in two flavours: Original and Hot & Spicy.

Home owners looking to renovate don’t always know how to tackle the job, let alone where to find the right people to do it. Design and renovation-focussed Houzz has aimed to help them out with its online and mobile platform connecting home owners with trade professionals, and it’s just launched a New Zealand site.

Cat’s got a tongue thanks to cat food brand Temptations collar creation. It will translate all the meows of feline friends into English, however we can’t be sure it’s entirely accurate.

Yes, the above image is of All Black Ben Smith’s Adidas boot exiting a Harraways instant oats packet.

Dentsu Aegis is continuing its global expansion with the launch of its ninth network brand and lifestyle agency MKTG, formed out of three existing agencies.

Wildlife Conservation Film Festival, with DDB New York, is celebrating procreating pandas in a cheeky new campaign.

When thinking about the kinds of brands that would dabble in virtual reality (VR) technology, probably one of the last that would come to mind would be a healthcare brand. But, New Zealand-based global healthcare brand Comvita has given it a crack to share how it sources its manuka honey, so I went along to try it out.

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and Samsung are taking international buyers of New Zealand wine back to the beginning with a virtual reality wine tour, showing off the country’s landscapes and what they have to offer the food and drink industry around the world.

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

A large, suspiciously chalky-looking crevasse opened up outside outdoor gear retailer Outfitters in Newmarket last night so we go owner Neil Stichbury’s take on the rare occurrence.

Online dating, apps like Tinder, and programmes like The Bachelor and Married at First Sight suggest humanity has drifted away from the traditional modes of meeting a match. Now, Knorr, an international food product brand, has introduced another method to finding love in a cute video #LoveAtFirstTaste.

Vice is now producing around five times as much local content than it previously did. So, Damien Venuto sits down with its New Zealand head of marketing and business development David Benge to find out why the company is sending more of its journalists across the nation.

Ever wondered what it’s like for prisoners in solitary confinement? The Guardian is letting its audience step inside a cell, via virtual reality, and experience solitary confinement in disturbing detail.

Rupert Deans, founder of Christchurch digital agency One Fat Sheep has raised over $1.2 million in seed funding for his new start up Plattar, a Melbourne-based augmented reality platform, with News Corp Australia leading the investments charge.

This year the Toronto Silent Film Festival is celebrating films that have been lost and to uncover them, Instagram users are invited to play in the festival’s Escape Room.