What colour is your Fidget Spinner? Can you stack and spin? Have you stepped up from standard to stainless steel? These are the big questions buzzing around primary school playgrounds right now. But what’s it all about? What is a Fidget Spinner? Why is it relevant in a marketing blog? And have we just forgotten about Pokèmon Go?
Colenso BBDO has picked up its third gold Lion overnight, while DDB and FCB also had reason to celebrate having each picked up a Bronze.
Bauer Media has named current New Zealand chief executive Paul Dykzeul as chief executive officer of the company across both Australia and New Zealand. He will be relocating to Australia to take on the new role.
It wasn’t that long ago that Yahoo could’ve bought both Google and Facebook. But now with the business sold to Verizon, we look at how it’s evolving its strategy in the local market.
Kudos to the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, Uber, Panasonic and Auckland University.
The results of The Hot List are in—find out who makes the cut by getting our latest issue of NZ Marketing.
The ASA has released the country’s most complained about ads of 2016 and unsurprisingly it was racism, encouragement of illegal behaviour and inappropriate sexual content that got New Zealanders’ blood boiling.
With Sam being the most common unisex name among Uber riders and New Zealand in general, Uber has partnered with All Blacks Sam Cane and Sam Whitelock to promote free rides for all those who share the name.
Overnight, the next round of winners and finalists at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity were announced and there were again a number of New Zealand agencies in the mix.
As a long standing sponsor of Emirates Team New Zealand, Toyota is attempting to drum up some extra support for the team from Bermuda, the host country of the event, in a new campaign via Saatchi & Saatchi.
After 20 years at the helm, Daniel Barnes will move on from his role as CEO to focus on strategic projects and client relationships, assuming the role of founder and partner at Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu.
Dame Julie Walters takes a trip down memory lane in a new campaign for British opticians Vision Express.
Day one of Cannes generally sets the scene for the rest of week, with the finalists across six categories all holding their lucky charms close as they wait to see if they convert their shortlists into silverware. Here’s a rundown of which local agencies are in the running for glory.
With Cannes kicking off over the weekend, New Zealand agencies are set to fill their suitcases with Lions and already celebrating is Colenso BBDO, which has scored a Gold Lion in Cannes Health and Wellness category for its Fonterra ‘Milk Slams’ campaign.
Panasonic is showing off its new OLED TV in a spectacle of colours in a campaign, by agency Lemonade and film company Merlin, featuring brand ambassador and All Black Beauden Barrett.
A basketball court doesn’t seem like the typical location to ponder what New Zealand will look like in 20-years time, but when Ruckus and TVNZ came together to find that out, it served to be the perfect base for the scale of the production. Over the last four nights, What Next? has been posing challenging questions to New Zealanders. We chat to executive producer Arwen O’Connor and director Mitchell Hawkes about bringing the ambitious task to life.
With many young voters not turning out to the last election, who better to get them up to speed with New Zealand politics than one of their own? Newshub thought just that, so it got one of its interns on the case to create a new series called Ticked Off.
Only a few weeks after news broke of joint-managing directors Linus Hjoberg and Emma Bolser departing Ikon, the former has now secured a new role.
This week, Instagram announced a new sub-header on posts specifying when a commercial relationship exists between an influencer and business. We chat to the ASA and IAB about whether this is a step in the right direction.
Following the announcement that Spark’s acquired Ubiquity to merge it with Qrious, we chat with Ubiquity co-founder Nathalie Morris about taking up the offer, letting the business grow to the next level and what it means for herself and client.
HP is showing businesses how easy it is to access and steal confidential information in two short films starring Christian Slater as the wolf.
One thing book purists can all agree on is that nothing quite compares to the touch, look and feel of a paperback book. Luckily, for those aficionados, there’s an entire New Zealand awards ceremony dedicated to their design. Here are some of our favourites.
FCB has confirmed the appointment of Dan Martin to the position of chief executive, which has been vacant since December last year, following the departure of Brian van den Hurk.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
What makes a conversation memorable? Damon Stapleton believes the answer might lie in the words of a few taxi drivers he’s encountered over the last 20 years.
Since its debut during the 1972 Olympics, the Nike Cortez has come a long way from gracing the feet of long distance runners to the outfits of high fashion models like Bella Hadid. Now, to celebrate the shoe’s 45th anniversary, Nike NZ is dabbling in the business of zines with the launch of The Rise, a photographic exploration into self-expression and female empowerment.
Taika Waititi dips into the tropes of charity advertising as he fronts a new campaign by Clemenger BBDO for the New Zealand Human Rights Commission.
From a boppy spot about Kiwi cliches to a somewhat awkward tour around Auckland’s best ‘training grounds’, there’s been no shortage of ads promoting the much anticipated Lions Tour. Many of the ads have focused on highlighting New Zealand’s scenery and culture, and Flying Fish has continued the tradition with a spot for Sky Sports UK.
With semester two of the academic year kicking off next month, the University of Auckland have released a new campaign urging the next generation of leaders to be restless in their pursuits.
Carrick Graham sheds some more light on PR by explaining how the Official Information Act works.