Aaron McMinn grew up exploring visual mediums and turned that passion into a job when he entered agency land. Today, he’s a creative director at Wunderman Thompson but not all his creative pursuits are for clients. Some are for himself. Erin McKenzie talks to McMinn about his extra-curricular projects and how they’re benefiting and his client work and agency.
IABNZ has released its H1 results, posting an advertising revenue growth of almost 13 percent. This growth is consistent with the second quarter of this year and the same time in 2018, reaching the same 12.7 percent in advertising revenue for the year-on-year basis.
Time Out Bookstore’s manager Jenna Todd was a speaker at the Magazine Publishers Association’s 2019 magazine conference ‘Thinking Forward’ held in July. StopPress visited Todd at the store and discussed similarities between independent bookstores and magazines, engaging with the local community and selling socks.
Stanley St has welcomed Andrew Reinholds to its senior leadership team as head of media. In the role, Reinholds will be building on an already enviable media offering, honed by former incumbent Rachel Cormack.
Our advertising landscape continues to rotate around the growth of digital and how digital can be used to further capture the attention of viewers. Yet there is one type of adverting so simple, so primal, so no-nonsense that even in this computer run society it has survived. We’re talking here, about inflatable, or balloon, advertising.
In a new brand campaign, by EightyOne, Powershop is shining a light on the relationship consumers have with their electricity through a young woman and a big pink blob.
Get out the tissues. Vodafone is celebrating the possibilities of 5G in a beautiful campaign by DDB dubbed ‘Huxley’.
Our weekly wrap up of good things, strange things, and slightly depressing things from inside the intertubes. Tirohia te reira, check it out.
An intriguing new body of research, which records how media impacts brain activity, has provided new insights into the best ways to structure advertising campaigns across multiple channels.
DB Breweries has taken out the Supreme Awards at this year’s TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards for their ‘Reviving a Legend – Tui’s Stepchange Into RTDs’ marketing initiative. Meanwhile, Jo Mitchell from McDonald’s New Zealand was celebrating her Marketer of the Year win and Philip Poole was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.
These companies showed us how they put their tools to use and have been crowned winners at the 2018 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards.
The results of the third GfK Radio Survey for 2019 are out and The Edge is holding strong in top position for commercial stations, with a weekly cumulative reach of 590,800 listeners. These listeners contribute to the 3.3 million New Zealanders who listen to commercial radio in their everyday lives.
Clemenger BBDO and Warmer Kiwi Homes have banded together to promote the second phase of the Warmer Kiwi Homes grant.
August was an amazing month for advertising and choosing a winner of the Colmar Brunton Ad Impact Award was a difficult task. This month, the honour goes to PAK’nSAVE with their latest advertisement ‘Saveyest Country’.
We asked some smart folk across the industry for their thoughts on some of the industry’s hot topics.
Wanting to inspire and celebrate dynamic and interactive creativity in the digital outdoor space, Lumo has created The Pixel Awards. StopPress sat down with co-founder and chief executive Phil Clemas to talk digital opportunities, breaking down barriers and growth.
Meridian have teamed up with Garage Project brewery to launch Turbine Pale Ale and introduce the energy company’s new renewable energy certification.
Te mahi pai (good work) to Pepsi NZ, Meridian and Garage Project, Augusto and the Māori Language Commission, and Dettol.
Industry happenings at Mission Estate Winery, 99 and Stuff.
Two international companies, Sweetshop and Green Productions have joined forces to launch Sweetshop & Green into Australia and New Zealand. The new company has a focus to bring small and large scale tv and film productions to the country.
Aiming to get New Zealanders to speak more Te Reo Māori than a native Australian bird, Augusto and the Māori Language Commission have issued a fairly easy seeming challenge to our Kiwis.
The Marketing Association is readying itself this week for a change of hands in the role of CEO. John Miles will step into the position at the end of September, as its current CEO Tony Mitchell prepares for his own departure.
The MPA judges described this year’s ‘Rising Star’, Erin Berryman, as a commercially-focused editor who has demonstrated strategic nous during her site, Beautyheaven, launch and ongoing development. Here, Berryman shares her thoughts on the award and the industry she is rising through.
Last month brought news that KPEX, the Kiwi Premium Ad Exchange consortium created in 2015 by Stuff, NZME, MediaWorks and TVNZ, is to close. The move is the result of changing market demands and shareholder priorities. Following the news, local programmatic players, Kargo and Acquire, have shared their thoughts.
After long and illustrious lives, there are many who are ready to write the Global Ad Agencies’ obituary. And they do have a point – they’re facing some existential challenges, not least from the global technology giants. Richard Pook, general manager of Amplifi New Zealand, writes about the recent quarterly reporting season and demonstrates just how powerful these tech companies have become.
There’s no doubt you recognise the need for your organisation to better leverage the power of data and insights. Leaders in marketing, technology and communications are all striving to better understand today and find was to predict what will happen tomorrow.
DDB Group has launched its fifth agency following growth and globally successful campaigns. Tribal Worldwide New Zealand now leads the group’s digital department.
That’s right. In a move that was a huge surprise yet at the same time not at all a surprise, NZ Marketing Magazine took out the Supreme Award for Best Magazine at the Magazine Publishing Awards for 2019, beating out the competition and claiming its rightful crown as best of the best. Bow down.
