Today the TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards partners, NZ Marketing magazine, StopPress and Marketing Association (MA) officially opened the call for entries to the 2020 Awards. Now in their 29th year, the Awards exist to celebrate the collective excellence in creative and strategic thinking that goes into award-winning marketing. Entries are open to everyone and are easy

Stanley St has created and launched a campaign and free digital tool kit to give a voice to businesses impacted by Covid-19, while encouraging Kiwis to get behind them. The Support Local, Shop Local campaign features struggling businesses shouting their support to other businesses in the area, a true reflection of ‘he waka eke noa’

FCB, Fire Emergency New Zealand and celebrity chef Josh Emmett have launched a gripping campaign reminding Kiwis that unattended cooking is the main cause of house fires in New Zealand. The 30″ spot has Josh Emmett filming himself at home while cooking and talking to the camera. He begins by frying meat in the pan

StopPress is opening up a Q&A session with Jon Devereux from Mi9. With over ten years of experience across programmatic operations in New Zealand’s largest companies, Devereux is now offering tailored advice for any digital ad or programmatic buying questions you might have.  Jon Devereux, now the programmatic manager for Mi9, has experience across a

The leading PR company announced this morning a bold rebrand, We Are Pead, with the new brand promise set to ‘provoke action’. Taking on 2020 in its stride Pead Pr, now We Are Pead, has come out with a new brand identity while also bringing its large list of clients and brands into the new

The Pond has been taking steps during the current Covid-19 crisis to ensure its represented freelance contractors emerge from lockdown fighting fit and ready to take on the world. “As New Zealand’s foremost recruitment agency for independent contractors in the creative, digital, and marketing industries, we take our stewardship of our self-employed contractors’ careers very

It’s hot, it’s sexy, it’s a piece of meat, literally. Tegel and BC&F Denstu have shown the steamy option available to people that are well and truly over cooking. Nothing beats a dinner of a buttered white bread roll and bagged roast chicken, and I will argue anyone on that. Mix that with the bore

As consumers, we are constantly confronted with information and messaging through a multitude of media. Digital advancements have meant that creatives are using new techniques to connect with us at every touchpoint. But, in a crowded market, and now more than ever in a market that is sensitive following our own lockdown due to a

WIILLLLSSSSSOOOONNNNNNNNNNNN. Now that’s out of the way, JCDecaux and Rebel Sport have tapped into our most beloved isolation companion, Wilson the Volleyball, in its new OOH campaign. Tom Hanks in Cast Away is the perfect example of keeping moderately sane in our own bubbles. Rebel Sport has proven that in isolation, even the most simple

Scroll Media has announced a webinar this Friday, May 8 where it will host some of our countries publishers to talk about the effect Covid has had on their websites, and how’ll the plan to recover. Patrick Smellie from BusinessDesk, Vaughan Elder of the Otago Daily Times, Kenny Scott from NRL, Helen Jackson from Foodlovers

When things get tough economically the first lever most marketers pull is marked ‘caution’. But as Verizon Media’s head of platform Sales ANZ, Andrew Gilbert says, these truly extraordinary times call for a bit of introspection and some counter-intuitive tactics. Sometimes having a foot in two opposing camps can be the best way to appreciate

Last year Lumo introduced the Pixel Awards to celebrate the creative space of the out of home industry. The third round of the competition is now open for May entries. The Pixels are judged each quarter by a quartet of renown creative personalities. This round will be judged by Tom Paine, Executive Creative Director from Pitchback

It’s the start of a new decade and our industry is picking up the pace. Here, our industry leaders tell us what their focus is for the year ahead. Editors note: These answers were returned pre-Covid-19. Hilary Souter, chief executive of the ASA All the work we do is driven by the ASA vision “Every

In what has been a quiet month for brands advertising around Covid-19, Countdown’s heartfelt In It Together campaign rightly took out the April Impact Award. The ad featured Countdown staff, and gave us a us behind the scenes look at the hard work and what Countdown is doing to keep this country safe and well