Getty Images’ annual top searches reflect a mix of the year’s events, news, sports, popular celebrities and other major stories and trending ideas. Here’s what 2014 looked like.

Back in 2013, ANZ’s summer cricket spot was about as naff as you could get, with a few of the bank’s sporting ambassadors watching Eric Murray get a tennis ball beamer from Shane Bond. This year it’s taken a more serious approach for its naming rights sponsorship of the Sri Lankan series and its sponsorship of the upcoming Cricket World Cup by launching a campaign called Dream Big.

As scores of dejected New Zealand humans shuffle back into their workplaces after their unbridled leisure, it’s important to have a regular fill of pointless but moderately entertaining content to fill in your day while brain functionality slowly returns to normal. And here’s a quality example of that: 1650 mousetraps and 1840 ping-pong balls creating a non-explosive chain reaction to ring in the new year for Pepsi Max.

We asked some stalwarts a simple question. Here’s what Lorraine Breheny, general manager of marketing at The Warehouse, had to say.

Niue Tourism is putting its public relations and advertising agency work to tender for 2015 and beyond, with submissions closing 31 January 2015.

In keeping with an ongoing tradition, a few industry players gave us their take on the year for our annual opinion harvest. Here’s what Julian Andrews, creative director at Whybin\TBWA, thought about 2014.

We asked some stalwarts a simple question. Here’s what Mike Tod, chief marketing and customer officer at Air New Zealand, had to say.

In keeping with an ongoing tradition, a few industry players gave us their take on the year for our annual opinion harvest. Here’s what Andrew Hawley, managing director of Touchcast, thought about 2014.

We asked some stalwarts a simple question. Here’s what Paul Sanderson, a senior applied technologist at Finch, had to say.

In keeping with an ongoing tradition, a few industry players gave us their take on the year for our annual opinion harvest. Here’s what Marnie Jane Samphier, the general manager of marketing at Holden New Zealand, thought about 2014.

We asked some stalwarts a simple question. Here’s what Jason Paris, general manager of home, mobile and business at Spark, had to say.

We asked some stalwarts a simple question. Here’s what Anna Curzon, general manager marketing at ASB, had to say.

In keeping with an ongoing tradition, a few industry players gave us their take on the year for our annual opinion harvest. Here’s what Melanie Reece, the commercial director at Pandora, thought about 2014. ​

We asked some stalwarts a simple question. Here’s what Nick Worthington, the creative chair at Colenso BBDO had to say.

We asked some stalwarts a simple question. Here’s what Kym Niblock, chief executive officer at Lightbox, had to say.

We asked some stalwarts a simple question. Here’s what Stephen Scheeler, head of Facebook New Zealand, had to say.

The in-built handbrake to New Zealand’s economic progress is demonstrated by the opposition to the long overdue changing of the flag, says Paul Catmur.