The All Blacks ended its 21-year sponsorship with Coca-Cola in January this year and teamed up with Pepsi, aligning itself with its subsidiary Gatorade as its hydration partner. A new ad has been released celebrating the partnership (which features a very serious Sam Cane).

With all this news of mergers, there’s a new hashtag in town, ‘#nzmergerbot’, and the possibilities are endless. Here are a few of our favourites.

The Coffee News has been doing its weekly round in cities, towns and suburbs throughout New Zealand since 2001, and businesses are lining up to have their ads in the periodical. So, what is the secret to this unassuming publication and its longevity? We chat to Coffee News New Zealand director Helen Fisher about.. well, why it’s still a thing.

Getty Images wants New Zealanders to release their creative flair in its ‘Let’s make something with video’ competition.

Long before Online Republic was the Kiwi success story sold to Australia-based Webjet for $85 million, former StopPress writer Sim Ahmed wrote a piece in 2013 telling the story of how the company’s founder Mike Ballantyne discovered success by moving away from ego-stroking digital campaigns and focusing on the unsexy—but increasingly important—realm of search engine marketing. Today, we revisit this tale.

‘Meanwhile in… New Zealand’, Kiwi kids are enjoying winter ice cream up Mt Hutt according to Air New Zealand’s latest installment of its long running campaign, which is an effort to encourage Australians to take advantage of daily flights to Christchurch.

There are so many ads that just slip right by us, in fact, most of them do. But when a giant campaign is launched featuring NBA star Steven Adams and promising the build of five basketball courts in your city, it’s hard not to notice. And to notice is to anticipate and when there are hold ups, people get annoyed. We talk to Spark’s Clive Ormerod about the latest on The Boroughs’ roll-out and what the telco might do differently when launching the next courts.

A round of applause to Sovereign, Wendy’s and Kiwibank.

​For those who hate waiting rooms, the elevator type music and year old magazines, ZocDoc, an online medical care scheduling service, has found a solution in virtual reality.

Wonder what the future will look like? Hyper-Reality, a short film, takes a look into the crystal ball to reveal a world in which technology envelopes every aspect of human life.

Last month, Uber transformed its back seats into a Dragon’s Den of sorts, to give Auckland entrepreneurs the chance to pitch to their business concepts to business leaders and investors. Aranui Ventures founder Robett Hollis shares three lessons he learnt at #UberPitch.

Mary Meeker, a venture capitalist from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has gained a reputation as something of a tech oracle as a result of her famed Internet Trend Reports. She has been sharing educated views and revealing data on how technology is changing the world, transforming markets and offering new business opportunities since 2001. And here are some of our favourite slides from this year’s presentation.

Vancouver real-estate agent Patricia Houlihan gave herself super powers and has gone viral in the process.

​If you’re looking for a tangible metaphor of the fragmentation in media, look no further than the 2 Cheap Cars billboard currently on show in Auckland. The company’s single billboard has been split into three disparate sections, creating a completely disjointed message.

The competition for content is heating up. Customers don’t want one service, they want choices that fit the type of household they are and the individual tastes in their household. Kym Niblock talks about making sure people choose Lightbox from a suite of video-on-demand services.

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

Sovereign has launched a health age generator to promote its health insurance loyalty programme, which gives Kiwis an idea of their ‘health age’ as determined by their lifestyle choices. And to draw attention to the initiative it’s brought aboard a Weta visual effects artist to show the health age of three people with different lifestyles.