The latest agency news, campaigns and client wins (and losses) making headlines across Aotearoa.
Weekly magazines continue to slip in readership and circulation but there’s signs of life for lifestyle and niche magazines, according to the latest readership and circulation results from Nielsen and the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).
Another fairly dark set of results for New Zealand’s newspaper industry, as the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) results and Nielsen’s readership numbers showing further year-on-year declines throughout the country.
Ahhh, the Falcon, that most graceful of winged creatures, and that most boganic of wheeled machines. Following news that Ford was ceasing manufacture in Australia, the 56-year-old model—one of the longest running nameplates in automotive history—will be no more come 2016. So in honour of the beast, here’s a collection of classic Falcon ads from the region that have run over the years, including the classic 1989 campaign that reportedly saw requests to drive the new ‘Ford Lately’ go through the roof.
As a chap by the name of Doug Kessler once said, traditional marketing talks at people, but content marketing talks with them. And, like an increasing number of brands, New Zealand Beef & Lamb is combining the two, with its above-the-line Iron Maidens—Sarah Walker, Sophie Pascoe and Lisa Carrington—raising the profile of its meaty wares and the redesigned Meat magazine starring MasterChef winner Chelsea Winter aiming to provide some easily-achievable culinary inspiration.
A weekly wrap of funny things, good things, weird things and other things seen on the intertubes.
Whybin\TBWA has been the The Radio Network’s (TRN) agency partner for a number of years, but Saatchi & Saatchi was chosen ahead of it to rebrand Radio Hauraki last year. And while Whybin\TBWA\ worked on a campaign for its flagship brand Newstalk ZB recently and is still thought to be the agency of record, some big changes in TRN’s management team and a commitment to increase its in-house capability through agency Carbon and reduce agency fees means there might not be quite as much work ahead.
DB Export 33’s recent campaign tried to prove that men were doing women a favour by drinking low-carb beer. And now Tegel and DraftFCB are doing their bit to inspire better inter-sex relations with a 45 second TVC to prompt the lads to roast up a few more chooks.
There were a few terse words directed at Tourism New Zealand, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and Education New Zealand from the creative community last year when Principals, a largely Aussie-based design shop with a small presence in New Zealand, was appointed to tell the New Zealand Story. But the next phase—creative development—has gone to the (admittedly STW-owned) local combination of Designworks and Assignment.
Yesterday’s Xbox One reveal summarised in under two minutes. As someone who woke up at 5 AM to watch the announcement I can whole-heartedly say, this is pretty much bang on the money.
Apple-evangelist-turned-Googler Guy Kawasaki was in Auckland earlier this month, sharing with the Air New Zealand Social Media Breakfast crowd his top tips for enchanting people and winning followers on social networks.
Given the recent ructions in the world of print media—and, to a lesser extent, broadcast media—and the fact that the job of newspaper journalist was recently ranked as the worst job in a recent US survey, this nzherald.co.nz headline shows some surprising results.
While Samsung has shot a few ads in New Zealand, the local executions have been few and far between. Colenso BBDO has done a few things for the South Korean behemoth, like Peter Bromhead drawing cartoons live on nzherald.co.nz and a virtual queue to launch the Galaxy S4. And now Barnes Catmur has given the Galaxy Note 2 the full Kiwi treatment by getting actor/director Taika Waititi to do his mad thing in an online only, long-form video called ‘State of the —ATION’.
Following several overseas breaches into high profile Twitter accounts overseas (and one closer to home) Twitter has finally given users a tool to protect their accounts by introducing two-factor authentication.
A sold out Digital Day Out kicked off this morning with Catherine Bates from Tourism New Zealand talking about the strategy the organisation is taking to sell New Zealand to the world using The Hobbit.
It’s certainly not the best of times for mainstream beer, with volumes generally decreasing due to changing tastes and the proliferation of other booze options. But there are still strong loyalties to certain drops. And Lion’s Waikato Draught and Hamilton agency King St have devised a regional outdoor and radio campaign to tap into that.
Last year, Getty Images and its Brazilian agency AlmapBBDO released a commercial called ‘From Love to Bingo’, a collection of stock imagery that told a love story and clocked up almost three million views on The Yoob. And the pairing have continued on a similar path with their latest effort, ’85 seconds’.
For the first time in the New Zealand market, Fiat Chrysler Group has launched under one distribution network. And it’s promising to use its additional clout to get its Italian and American brands in front of Kiwi car buyers.
Sleepy geeks across New Zealand woke up at 5 AM this morning to take a look at Microsoft’s latest addition to the console wars, the Xbox One. General consensus seems to be Microsoft has another hit console on its hands – but many here in New Zealand are apprehensive about how many of the features announced this morning will make the flight across the Pacific Ocean.
As part of our push to remind you marcomms folk to get your entries in for the 2013 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards (entries close 5pm this Friday, but extensions are available by clicking here), we’re asking some past winners to tell us about their glorious victory, what it meant to the business and why these awards are different. Christie McCarthy, one half of Dollop Puddings alongside Julia Crownshaw, looks at it from the small business perspective.
Westpac did it last year at 79 Queen St, and BNZ has followed suit with its own ‘concept store’ across the road at 80 Queen St.
TVNZ has produced the first instalment of its Future Now series, which features a selection of talented humans from inside the building talking about some of the trends in media here and overseas—and, importantly, what they mean for local advertisers and viewers. To kick things off, film critic and entertainment writer Dominic Corry quizzes Tom Cotter, TVNZ’s general manager of digital media, on the way technology is affecting how, when and where we view our content.
From the Chrome speed tests to ‘Here’s to the Moms’ to the Cannes grand prix-winning Project Rebrief, Google’s advertising is usually of a very high standard. And it’s done it again with this nerd fest of a 90 second commercial for Chrome that charts the evolution of the internet and shows that ‘we’re building the web together’.
A trifecta for Flying Fish, and a quinella for the X Factor sponsors with Ford, McDonald’s and h2go catching our attention this week.
The number of tablets in New Zealanders’ hands has almost tripled, with 19 percent of Kiwis owning one according to the latest TNS Mobile Life report.
After a six month review of the Magazine Awards, The Magazine Publishers Association has pushed go on its call for entries. And it will probably be getting a whole heap more this year because Bauer Media, which publishes 20 magazines, has ended its five year embargo and will get back onboard this year.
Technology is not king in advertising and design. Craft is. And Ignacio Oreamuno, the executive director of the Art Directors Club, think it’s time for the industry to go back to its roots and make communications beautiful again.
In the first instalment of an ongoing series where we showcase some of Getty Images’ best material, check out this selection of aerial, slow-mo, time-lapse and in-motion videos courtesy of the Red Bull Media House.
Lazy robots and steampunk curios win Media Design School seven awards at the Los Angeles Movie Awards over the weekend.
Some interesting stats coming from Spotify about the music streaming service’s first year in the country, including most streamed artists, songs and popular local acts. Updated with Nielsen numbers.
Editing guru Swede Mason is responsible for what is undoubtedly the best song ever: a homage to buttery biscuit bases and MasterChef. And he’s returned with a fresh clip that celebrates the wonders of baking. Need a new theme tune New Zealand’s Hottest Home Baker?
As part of our push to remind you marcomms folk to get your entries in for the 2013 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards (entries close 5pm Friday 24 May), we’re asking some past winners to tell us about their glorious victory, what it meant to the business and why these awards are different. Here’s Malcolm Phillipps, chief marketing officer of 2degrees.
Tui is breaking years of tradition by adding some colour to its usually stoic black and orange billboards, in honour of duck shooting blokes everywhere.
Semi-Permanent is back in Auckland for its ninth year, bringing together designers, artists, film makers and mould breakers of all sorts – for a menagerie of creative thinking. And we’ve got two tickets to give away to this delightful thinkfest.
They say the customer is always right. But ‘they’ have probably never flown on a budget airline. Air New Zealand is lauded for its customer service and, as a result, has legions of loyal fans. But other airlines focus on price at the expense of almost everything else and have legions of loyal haters. And in the world of aviation, it’s a strategy that seems to work.
TVNZ’s Breakfast has a long history of getting stars to read the weather, with Delta Goodrem, Adam Lambert, Rachel Hunter and a few others spreading the meteorological news (Tamati Coffey even presented the weather in Elvish in the midst of Hobbit mania). And now Jack Black and Kyle Glass, who are here as part of a Tenacious D tour, have helped out.
It’s not unusual for commercial directors to pursue other interests to keep the creative fires burning. But doing a TV series is fairly rare, says Robber’s Dog’s Chris Dudman, who helped write, direct and edit TV3’s new critically-acclaimed drama Harry.