In 2016 Countdown embarked on a redesign of its home brand products and along for the ride has been Brandhub, which has been responsible for the supermarket’s Fresh offering. StopPress talks to Karla Douglas, Brandhub’s managing director and account director, about the process of establishing a new look, and how Australian and New Zealand customers differ.
Friday night show 7 Days is back on deck this week, and familiar comedy bastions Jeremy Corbett, Paul Ego and Dai Henwood have gone head to head to build up its return.
HRV Solar presents a campaign about the powerful capabilities of the sun as a natural resource for energy. The HRV Solar launch will be released in Auckland and additionally roll out across New Zealand this year.
Above Average, an online comedy distributor, has gone back in time to learn that branded content started in 1501.
Volvo’s haunting version of The Sound of Music’s ‘My Favourite Things’ shares a lesson about being owned by your possessions.
Rather than wrapping controversies in a PR blanket, Air New Zealand has taken a more transparent approach, openly admitting its struggles with the gender pay gap, sustainability targets and a range of other issues in a Sustainability Report for 2017. It’s easy to talk about the things that are going well, but it takes a brave business to admit when things go wrong. We talk to head of communications Marie Hosking about the importance of transparency.
Sinead Boucher’s career on the Fairfax digital team started in what she describes as a “broom cupboard” at a time when the site was seen as a nice-to-have tag-on to the print business. Now, as she sits in the chief executive chair at Stuff, she reflects on how much things have changed.
Auckland-based Inhouse was brought on board to revitalise the Steinlager brand as they launched a new offering – Tokyo Dry. Simple, right? Not quite.
After a pitch late last year, OMD has won the Menarini media account with work commencing this month.
The Warehouse Group is on the search for a single media partner to work across all of its brands.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
New Zealand Story targets overseas businesses to prop up and take notice of New Zealand’s sweet pockets of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Over the weekend Vector and the Auckland Council turned the Auckland Harbour Bridge into a gigantic, light-up billboard to remind people of the power of the sun and the potential of renewable energy.
We asked industry insiders for their thoughts on the year that was, and what’s yet to come.
It was late last year news broke that Fairfax had sold the Cuisine magazine masthead to editor Kelli Brett and advertising manager Vanessa Stranan. Now, as the pair find their feet in the new year, we speak to Brett about the decision to buy the magazine and what the pair have planned for it. Plus, we look at how food magazines are faring in the digital world.
Toyota’s latest campaign bandies its campaign slogan around of ‘New Zealand’s favourite car brand for 30 years’, so what does it mean, ‘favourite car brand’, and on what basis can it make the claim?
NZME has announced a change in structure to the Agency team and opens a Melbourne office.
Vincent Heeringa takes a look at the state of content marketing and how its management determines its effectiveness.
Having produced a number of award-winning campaigns, including the ‘Child Replacement Programme’, and most recently given dogs the ability to take the perfect selfie, there’s no doubt the marriage of Pedigree and Colenso BBDO deserved the Client-Agency Partnership of the Year award.
From a bare, eczema ridden poodle to a strapping police officer, Pedigree’s new SelfieStix app via Colenso BBDO provides a range of adorable filters for dogs.
oOh! Media has marked its territory in Wellington’s Coastlands shopping centre with the addition of 16 retail panels.
Run me a bath Alexa, put the lights on dim and tell me the news. We take a look at the virtual assistant space and how Kiwi media organisations will be using Amazon’s Alexa.
Digital outdoor media company QMS Media has announced changes to the structure of the group’s senior executive team, with the promotion of two of its key executives, Wayne Chapman and Mike Porter.
While New Zealand may have been one of the first to have dogs driving cars, Subaru has used a similar concept to advertise its new three-row Ascent.
Following the historic decision in September last year to allow Saudi Arabian women to drive, Nissan Saudi Arabia surprised a group of women with driving lessons – with a special twist.
Zavy’s chief executive Dave Bowes looks at the Facebook algorithm changes from a marketing perspective. He offers three ways for brands to minimise the impacts on their metrics.
Tech-obsessed Kym Niblock is most comfortable when she’s wading neck-deep in a pool of data. This, she says, is the best place where you can find out where you need to go next. And for TVNZ, this involves diving straight into augmented reality.
Countdown, TAB, Go Healthy and Goodman Fielder are just some of the clients Y&R has picked up under Josh Moore’s leadership over the last year—all while still developing bold creative work for the likes of Arnott’s and Heinz Wattie’s. Moore may not have been present at any of the awards events this year, but that doesn’t mean his agency wasn’t noticed. Here’s the Y&R boss on what’s driven the agency’s success.
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