Fire your retailers or stoke the retail fire to warm your customers’ hearts? That question was answered comprehensively by fireplace manufacturer Escea.
Fire your retailers or stoke the retail fire to warm your customers’ hearts? That question was answered comprehensively by fireplace manufacturer Escea.
Two of the owners of Auckland creative agency Motion Sickness have been dabbling outside of their usual day-to-day activities to photograph and write the book Hideaways, a guide to a variety of beautiful and remote huts, baches and caravans to escape to around the country.
Finalists for Bravo’s local host search have been announced with two familiar faces from adland in the mix.
Pinning its hopes on a rebrand, the freshly-christened Helloworld knew from the outset that it could not outspend its competitors. The solution? A marketing approach that focused on innovation and the clever use of ‘killer’ o ers to create cut-through rather than competing head-on.
Fonterra’s ‘From here to Everywhere’ campaign provides a reminder that consumers as far afield as Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka all place Fonterra products into their shopping carts on a daily basis. What the advertising does not hint at, however, is the massive logistical task in keeping the brand digitally cohesive across all those markets.
Fiery professor Mark Ritson recently flew into the country for a short visit, during which he reminded us that everything is not what it seems—or what they tell us it is—in marketing.
OMD has retained the media account of skin care company Beiersdorf following a trans-Tasman multi-agency pitch.
Want to know what’s driving the industry’s future creatives? AUT’s End of Year Portfolio Show will feature the school’s 10 Commandments alongside the work of industry hopefuls.
For the latest issue of Idealog, publisher and editorial director Ben Fahy doesn’t just appear alongside his editorial, he pops out of the cover to explain what’s inside. Now, he explains the thinking behind creating an AR magazine cover with One Fat Sheep and Chorus, and what it means for magazines at a time of digital publishing.
A group of well-known Kiwis got to have a spin on the latest game.
A round of applause for Fonterra, Tip Top, Farmers and Air New Zealand.
Speaking at a breakfast event hosted by DDB last week, marketing professor Mark Ritson said the advertising industry would soon have to contend with the issue of sexual harassment and assault.
The development of the NZ Olympic Team App by the New Zealand Olympic Committee and sponsor ANZ is a perfect example of teamwork and moving sponsorship to partnership.
What do you say to parents who have just had a child with Down syndrome? Definitely not “sorry” according to the Canadian Down Syndrome Society.
PHD New Zealand and Heineken have rolled out the country’s first digital ad campaign that’s exclusive to connective devices in order to match the audience’s changing video habits.
Universal Music Group New Zealand and ASB Bank have launched ASBmusicnz – a partnership giving ASB customers access to music experiences through the ASBmusicnz Hub.
In what has become a StopPress tradition, we again present our rundown of the big pitches, the big ideas, the big balls, the big stoushes, the big moves and the big whoopsies. But this year, it comes with a few more bells, whistles and… doorstops.
Nike’s slogan ‘Just Do It’ was inspired by the final words of a murderer. And DDB chief creative officer Damon Stapleton reckons this says a lot about creativity.
Looking to tackle a chronic shortage of quality building apprentices, the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO) leapt in, boots and all, to a multistage, cross-platform campaign that managed to win hearts and minds, not just of potential candidates, but traditional and new media too.
Farmers is looking to connect with New Zealanders by telling the story of an undercover Santa living next door to a noisy family.
Viral plane spotting enthusiasts Terry and Christine Devit are the face of an entertaining campaign for Air New Zealand by FCB that pokes at Jetstar’s flight cuts.
Tip Top Ice Cream and Colenso BBDO have launched a new creative platform called ‘Good to Share’, that takes a look at how ice cream is an essential part of the Kiwi summer.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
With technology at the forefront, the launch took live to a new level.
NZME has entered the recruitment market with a new digital platform, YUDU, that connects industries with both active and passive candidates.
New World’s immersive in-store Easter experience broke new ground for the brand, leveraging emerging tech and capturing the hearts and minds of young would-be Easter egg hunters.
Ensuring frontline staff fully engage customers with your product is never an easy task. As New Zealand’s most popular loyalty programme (with over 2.5 million members) but without a physical presence, that disconnect was proving disastrous for Fly Buys. So how do you motivate the wildly diverse frontline staff of Fly Buys’ partners?
The editor of Paperboy shares a few of his favourite Auckland spots – and some of his hopes and dreams.
Spotify has revolutionised the access consumers have to music through its technology, but behind the machine, there’s humans like Spotify Australia and New Zealand senior music editor Alicia Sbrugnera helping craft playlists to people’s different wants and needs. We went behind the interface and spoke to her about how this algorithm and playlist curation business really works.