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.

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.

The Holden brand has for generations been dominated by the Commodore to the extent that it’s become difficult to separate the two. However, the company’s general manager Kristian Aquilina is on a mission to change that.

Take a bow Speight’s, BP and Australia’s Monash Children’s Hospital.

In a campaign that at first appears to be a Halloween thriller, Oxfam takes a look at the scary realities of tax avoidance.

A round-up of the scariest and funniest ads from New Zealand and around the world for Halloween.

As #shreddingforsummer posts pop up all over social feeds, Speight’s has released a humorous spot showing the fitness struggles of a regular Kiwi bloke.

To reveal its three Christmas flavours, the coffee brand created a street-art style mural.

A third of marketers don’t believe their organisations know how to get value from data, according to the Mood of Marketing survey conducted by Qrious with 74 New Zealand marketing professionals. We look at the survey and question whether the rush for data is leading to the industry losing sight of what good marketing has always been built on.

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