Casper is the original ‘bed in a box’ – it’s a direct-to-consumer e-commerce company selling foam mattresses which are hydraulically compressed into boxes. The US-based company has yet to be active in the New Zealand market, but a handful of its many global copycats are already shaking up what co-founder Jeff Chapin refers to as “Big Mattress”.

Gone are the days of days of media monitors delivering clients a package of newspaper cutouts each morning, but that doesn’t mean monitoring is no longer required. Rather, it’s as important than ever clients have a pair of eyes on the news gaining attention across the expanding media landscape. Russ Horell, Isentia’s New Zealand country manager, talks to StopPress about the rise of social media, how it’s responding with AI and what the future of news and journalism looks like.

Sky TV and Hello have rallied the country to show support for hometown hero Joseph Parker ahead of his heavyweight title unification bout in Cardiff.

VMO New Zealand’s workplace media and content network, VMO Work, has just broken another audience milestone with figures revealing the network now commands a cumulative weekly audience of over half a million professional workers.

There’s no question design is having a moment. Fortune 500 companies are hiring chief design officers and investing in design and innovation centres, and even traditional corporates are getting in on the action. At the forefront of this is Silicon Valley-based Airbnb, the online marketplace for people to lease short-term accommodation. Founded by designers Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky and co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk in 2008, the company is now a behemoth, valued at US$31 billion and located in 190 countries. On a recent trip to Auckland for the Better By Design CEO Summit, Airbnb’s Jenny Arden (an IDEO, Google and YouTube alumni) chats with us all things design.

Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes

A video campaign to sell milk? In film noir? With slam poetry? Bold – which is precisely why Jonny Kofoed and Assembly didn’t back down when creating a campaign for Fonterra’s Anchor milk brand. He talks us through the campaign after picking up a Purple Pin for the effort at last year’s Best Design Awards.

In support of International Woman’s Day, FCB’s London branch, FCB Inferno, is using playing cards to change the way we teach children to talk about gender.

A new campaign by Rogue Society Gin, via Motion Sickness, declares they have ‘made a name for themselves’ and the New Zealand company doesn’t just mean figuratively. After an international scuffle with an American brewing company that had a beer called ‘Rogue’, the company has rebranded to be Scapegrace Dry Gin to better promote its product overseas.