After picking up a coveted Black Pencil last year, Colenso BBDO has kept the bar high, picking up a rare White Pencil at the D&AD Impact Awards 2016.
Top Top Ice Cream has released a new campaign for its Memphis Meltdown, championing it as “the world’s original triple dipped ice cream”, however rather than making our mouths water the video leaves a bad taste.
New Zealand Weddings magazine has unveiled new layouts on both its digital and print platforms, giving brides-to-be inspiration for every aspect of their day through elegant and easy to navigate planning tools.
Noel Leeming’s Massive Sellout is back for another year and for those who aren’t too keen on getting among the crowds, the retailer is offering a VIP experience with a robot to do the shopping for them.
Pan Media founder and creative director Graeme Blake took a risk when hiring Sam Thompson. But it’s one that’s paid off, with the talented web designer developing an idea that could impact the way agencies throughout adland do business.
With the cider market growing, but mainly because of females, DB Breweries saw its chance to create a cider that would appeal to men. They created a new product – Old Mout Hard Cider – and went to work making the apple-born alcohol palatable to the lads.
Earlier this month, a young Auckland professional made headlines for using Facebook to try and land his dream job. Edward McKnight used ads on the social media site to target ASB staff as a way of applying for the role of youth and innovation sponsorship manager at the bank. And while McKnight has yet to be offered a job at ASB, it’s a sign that the traditional recruitment process of sending in a CV and crossing your fingers may be in need of a shake-up. Hoping to do just that is the new recruitment platform PreviewMe. Set to have its beta version go live early next month, the website hopes to reduce the pain points of both candidates and employers by introducing video to the recruitment process.
Google is celebrating its 18th birthday in its typical Doodle fashion, however, you would be forgiven if you missed the party because it has a habit of changing the date.
Raise a glass to The Salvation Army, Holden New Zealand and Cigna New Zealand.
Cigna Insurance’s latest campaign via Y&R sees the brand use Rube Goldberg machines to show how unpredictable life can be and how Cigna can help get things back on track.
Funny Girls star Rose Matafeo has weighed in on car ad stereotypes in a new promo for the show set to return screens on 30 September.
It took over two and half years and cost around $60 million, but TVNZ has finally moved into its new office space. We chat to TVNZ chief executive Kevin Kenrick about moving back home.
The Salvation Army launched a campaign today dubbed ‘The Unexpected Homeless’ via NZME and TBWA, leaving NZ Herald browsers struggling to find their way back ‘home’.
Holden New Zealand has released a new TVC for its Colorado, via Special Group and Fish, featuring a hero who uses his vehicle to do a good deed.
Fly Buys has made a few innovations to its service lately, having recently published a new and improved flyer-turned-magazine with Tangible Media and now it’s launched a new email approach developed with 1-1 and JustOne.
New Zealand makes an appearance in a Fedex campaign released earlier this month—and the result isn’t all that pretty.
The electricity market is highly competitive, with deals around price often being the only differentiator between brands. So Mercury Energy decided to try something different. And it paid off.
FCB has launched its first campaign for Massey University in a bid to attract students for first semester next year and it’s incorporated bold imagery and inspirational words to get its message across.
Bcg2 has been appointed as the main creative agency for New Zealand Opera, with digital, radio and print creative for the September 2016 season of Sweeney Todd—The Demon Barber of Fleet Street currently in the market. PLUS: find out who previously had the account, and a look at some of the award-winning work NZ Opera has produced in the past.
We Uber, we Facebook, we Google, we Airbnb. So, TRA’s Colleen Ryan looks at whether the real test for branding success lies in a business becoming a verb.
Cosmopolitan UK has taken its connection with its readers to the next level, by creating them a car.
Adidas is celebrating the overcoming of odds in an Indian campaign, which promotes the sale of odd shoes.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things, inspiring things and other things from inside the intertubes.
The 2016 NZ Effie Award finalists have been announced by CAANZ after a panel of 150 industry judges selected 102 finalists from 17 categories.
TVNZ has dubbed Duke its ‘innovation station’ – a place where it can experiment with unconventional programming and scheduling decisions in a bid to attract a younger audience. We chat to channel’s programmer Ed Kindred about what this means and what he’s doing differently. PLUS: a look at how many Kiwis tuned into the the Paralympics this year.
Jessica-Venning Bryan thinks launching a brand is a lot like starting a romantic relationship, and she offers some advice on how to make that love blossom.
Grand Designs has launched a new campaign ahead of its premiere of season two this Sunday on TV3, and this time it’s taken inspiration from New Zealand’s great outdoors.
The Dentsu Aegis Network recently acquired a creative agency, moved into new digs and announced some big plans for the future. Damien Venuto chats to chief executive Rob Harvey about where he’s headed and why he’s moving at such speed.
Child poverty and obesity are major issues facing New Zealand, and for Eat My Lunch founder Lisa King, the solution was simple. By creating a social enterprise with doing good at its heart, not only has she fed thousands of hungry school kids, she’s taking on fast food.
You know it’s mayoral election time when your street, mailbox and favourite cafes become flooded with images of smiling candidates. It’s usually not long until someone puts spray paint to billboard, which often solidifies the images even more in one’s memory. But, having your face plastered over different types of media isn’t cheap and this is a luxury Auckland mayoral candidate Chloe Swarbrick, who has next-to-no funding, doesn’t have. We chat to Swarbrick about what it’s like running a campaign with little money and if this would have been possible at all ten years ago.