News
Oh my reindeer: Air New Zealand helps create the nicest Christmas ever
An accidental email has a good outcome for this year’s Christmas as Air New Zealand helps naughty kids make it onto Santa’s nice list.
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Opinion
Gray Matters: life, diversity, leadership and sky
Graham Medcalf takes a look at the week that was, covering meaning-of-life, diversity in ad agencies, the value of technology and the future of Sky TV.
Opinion
This is PR’s Moneyball Moment
Nikki Wright, managing director of Wright Communications, writes about her learnings and observations after attending the PRovoke18 Conference in Washington DC.
News
Kiwibank casts net for creative agencies
Kiwibank has announced a search for creative agencies to support the next phase of its growth.
News
Zavy + StopPress Social Scoreboard: Air New Zealand’s new plane attracts the likes
In the lead up to Christmas, activity is ramping up and observing the trends on the Zavy Social Scoreboard over the past month, Air New Zealand has maintained its lead.
News
MediaWorks and QMS NZ propose merger
MediaWorks and QMS Media Limited have entered into a heads of agreement for a proposed merger of QMS Media’s New Zealand out-of-home, production and digital media business (QMS NZ) and MediaWorks’ radio, TV and digital business
News
Radio survey four: The Edge once again biggest commercial station
The fourth GfK commercial radio survey has been released today, showing 3.59 million New Zealanders aged 10+ listen to radio each week.
News
Copper Brand Experiences, MKTG and Fuse see gold at PREScom Awards
Last night, at Sky City’s Bar Twenty-One, New Zealand’s PR, brand experience, events and social media industry professionals celebrated the best campaigns from the last year at the inaugural PREScom Awards.
News
Creative industries short film: man digs a hole, people watch him do it
The latest short film from Flying Fish director James Solomon captures the existential anguish of the creative industries with a simple and effective metaphor: a hole.
News
Testicular Cancer NZ unveils world first ‘Auto Ball Checker’ via FCB
Testicular Cancer New Zeland and FCB have launched the ‘Testimatic’, the world’s first ‘Auto Ball Checker’ – a device that allows men to have their testicles checked for irregularities and lumps without the awkwardness of being face-to-face with a doctor.
News
Stuff confirms plans to axe 19 community journalism jobs
Media company Stuff has confirmed it will axe 19 jobs at its community papers in Auckland and Northland.
News
‘Paperless’ newspaper or a radio ad? DB Export saves trees via the radio waves
DB Export is continuing its mission to save the world by releasing paperless newspaper ads “printed” on radio.
Opinion
New migrants bring their culture with them, and it’s not what you think it is
TRA’s Colleen Ryan looks at the importance of understanding the nuances of new migrants to New Zealand.
News
Ads of the Week: 27 November
Round of applause to Auckland Transport, Stirling Sports and Air New Zealand.
Partner articles
How to harness Alipay and Wechat Pay
3.6 million Chinese tourists are expected to visit NZ over the next five years – but seeing the benefits of this tourism boom isn’t as simple as putting an ‘open for business’ sign on the front window.
News
Nielsen National Readership Survey: some magazines thrive while newspapers decline
The Nielsen National Readership Survey figures for Q4 2017 – Q3 2018 have been released and it’s not all doom and gloom for print.
StopPress exclusives
Kiwi Bacon claims Colmar Brunton October Ad Impact Award
October was a wonderful month for advertising, but there can only be one winner of the Colmar Brunton Ad Impact Award. For October it went to Kiwi Bacon with their ad ‘Kiwi Bacon – 100% New Zealand Free Farmed.’
News
TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards 2018 best in-house marketing: NZSki
Getting folks to spend money on icy peaks and ski fields in summer is no easy task. But, NZSki managed to beat the odds and rise to new heights. We take a look at this year’s best in-house branding.
News
Stuff and Bauer Media announce media partnership
Stuff has announced its latest media partnership with Bauer Media Group. The partnership will see Stuff publish content from Bauer’s current affair and lifestyle titles.
News
Shout Media and Vector Ltd partner for poster contract
Shout Media has announced an exclusive street poster contract with Vector Limited.
News
‘Radical changes’ for Māori Television news
Māori Television is replacing news and current affairs shows next year with a ‘Māori Media Hub’ to deliver “news as it happens” online and on TV. Mediawatch asks its chief editor why – and how that will be done.
Movings & Shakings
Sky TV announced Martin Stewart as new CEO
Sky TV has appointed Martin Stewart as its CEO, following John Fellet’s decision to retire at the end of the year.
News
Our Heritage: Stirling Sports releases integrated campaign
Youth and fashion have been combined in the latest campaign from Stirling Sports by Motion Sickness.
Movings & Shakings
Movings/Shakings: 23 November
Industry happenings at NZME, Māori Television and Curious Film.
News
The Compendium: 23 November
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
Opinion
Gray Matters: Radio, boomers, trust and promos
Graham Medcalf takes a look at the week that was, covering radio, the baby boomers, trusted professions and promotions.
News
TVNZ and MediaWorks celebrate at Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards
Last night New Zealand’s TV stars gathered at Auckland’s Civic Theatre to celebrate the best in show at the Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards. TVNZ people and programmes won across 14 categories and MediaWorks won across five.
News
Pride parade ‘on edge of collapsing’ – founder
No one should be excluded from the parade if they adhere to the values of pride, says the chair of a LGBTIQ charity and one of the founders of the Pride parade.
News
TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards 2018 best brand transformation: TSB Bank
Faced with low brand awareness and consideration, TSB Bank underwent a makeover – refreshing its name and looking to drive new customer growth. We take a look at this year’s best brand transformation.
News
Auckland Transport takes a hard look at the road toll with its latest road safety campaign
Auckland Transport has teamed up with Ogilvy to release ’64’, a road safety awareness campaign that draws attention to the significant increase in Auckland’s road toll in recent years.