The Ipsos Global Reputation Centre recently undertook a massive study of the reputation of more than 100 of the world’s largest companies to examine the factors that contribute to reputational success and resiliency in the face of crisis. The research ranked companies into Trust Tiers, and explores what makes companies in the top Trust Tier different, how they perform financially, the impact of trust on resiliency in the face of crisis, and the inter-relationship between trust and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on a company’s core business performance.

Last week, Bauer blew out a candle for Paperboy as the magazine for urban adventurers turned one. Dropped in the audience’s path via an innovative distribution model, the mag has quickly entrenched its edgy aesthetic into the Auckland landscape. And editor Jeremy Hansen reckons there’s more to come.

With Kiwis now spending around half of their media consumption time online, Mosh shares its advice for local businesses on Facebook.

Ipsos’ Leo Cremonezl and Jonathan Dodd talk transforming your customer data into real financial and business benefits.

With a website that promotes living life to the fullest, GrownUps is the perfect partner for a campaign about saving lives. Earlier this year it joined Heart Saver in its Become a Heart Saver campaign and has since been helping to deliver life-saving devices across the country.

With election hype sweeping the nation’s attention, television is once again playing a central role in keeping New Zealanders interested and informed. The medium has broken stories, delivered debates and responded immediately to the breaking news stories of the day. Jihee Junn looks at how in a world of ever prescient news coverage, it’s TV that’s still doing the heavy lifting.

At a time when metrics and viewability have become big issues of the day, could the MPA’s Magazine 360 metric be an effective way for competitors to keep an eye on each other?