The Research Association has rebranded its biannual awards event and opened entries to a more diverse range. The new version of the awards event, now dubbed the RAE Awards (Research Association Effectiveness Awards), will for the first time include entries of not only research but also data and insights projects.
Don’t drink and drive, don’t text and drive and now don’t app when hungry. Or do. Snickers New Zealand has gone down a rather unexpected route for its latest campaign via Colenso BBDO. The chocolate bar brand has made the most out of the amount of time Kiwis spend on their phones by offering free Snickers vouchers under the guise of utterly useless apps, with the idea that people would ‘download’ them because of the brand’s famous tagline — ‘You’re not you when you’re hungry’.
And humans just got even lazier. Dominos has given fast-food a new meaning with the announcement of its latest effort to make pizza ordering easy, a Zero Click app.
Auckland Transport has released the next iteration of its ‘Oi’ campaign, again with agency Work Communications, targeting drivers who get distracted by their phones. This time, a young driver is reminded to keep his eyes on the road by his own subconscious.
Honey Maid has come up with a clever way of getting web users to voluntarily receive pop up ads. In a new campaign it is taking over browsers to make websites more wholesome.
How do reputation managers manage their own reputation? Pead PR’s group account director Becky Erwood and senior writer David Paine offer advice on how PR practitioners can excel in their field.
Queenstown has long been considered the jewel in New Zealand’s tourism crown. Famous for its epic mountains, sparkling lake, winter sports and bountiful vineyards. Destination Queenstown has just launched its latest campaign, highlighting that the southern town is just as (if not more) beautiful in autumn through an image-heavy parallax created by Time Zone One, print and outdoor advertising via Queenstown agency Feast.
Quantiful’s Alan Gourdie looks into the not-so-distant future to see how businesses can use machine learning technology to get the most out of customer data.
DDB chief creative officer Damon Stapleton on how being a good creative means pushing beyond the expected and how the best ideas can never be a commodity pushed out on a conveyor belt.
Over the past few years the country’s main media companies have spent millions creating the integrated newsrooms of the future to keep up with the demands of a fragmented audience. RNZ has made similar multi-media moves (and even changed its name recently to mark its cross-platform aspirations), but as a government-funded, non-commercial broadcaster it has had to make these changes within its existing budget, which hasn’t changed for eight years. But last week the Radio New Zealand Amendment Bill was passed after being under consideration for ten years, finally providing clarification for RNZ’s commercial capacity as well as its values, new and old, as New Zealand’s national broadcaster.
For many Kiwi kids, being active outside can come at the cost of a broken arm. But, in a new initiative by Anchor and Colenso BBDO, the fun doesn’t have to be over. By continuing to place a focus on strength, the dairy brand is encouraging kids with broken bones to display their break with an ‘X-Ray cast’ and ‘Go Strong’ with free milk.
It’s hard to scroll down an Instagram newsfeed without becoming a witness to someone’s #green #healthy smoothie and now Sonic has taken the sharing to a new level by creating square smoothies to fit perfectly into an Instagram post.
Content marketing is becoming increasingly creative and has garnered some attention on the StopPress newsfeed lately, so we thought we would share a piece that came to our attention in a StopPress comment by The Goat Farm creative director Vaughn Davis, about a beautiful multimedia article for Christie’s auction house.
In a congested space like the electricity market, it’s difficult to stand out from the crowd. But, Flick is on a mission to do just that with its educational, customer-centric approach, socially conscious advertising and digitally savvy service. And making sure the brand stays true to its purpose is general manager of brand Jessica Venning-Bryan, one of the company’s leading lights.
In an extremely Kiwi affair, shopping centre owner Kiwi Property has partnered with TVNZ to promote its fashion and beauty retailers on lifestyle programme Kiwi Living.
Speight’s and DDB are again taking advantage of Kiwis’ number eight wire mentality and DIY attitude in part two of the ‘We will’ campaign, by suggesting an incentive to wipe the dust off those unfinished projects and get them completed once and for all.
Facial expressions are an effective way of showing others your mood, and some would argue are more powerful than language. We can express a range of emotions with our 43 facial muscles: happiness, sadness, anger, despair and amusement to name a few, and now The Warehouse has shown what face punters make when they ‘Get that bargain feeling’.
Us&Co may be new kids on the block, but the team says it’s on the road to reinventing the ad game, leaving traditional business models in the dust. Here’s a peek at the agency and what it’s been up to.
Since the earliest examples of magazines began appearing in the 17th century, a printed product has defined the medium. But with technological advancements and the proliferation of all that is digital, magazines now focus on much more than ink on paper. So, in response, the Magazine Publishers Association (MPA) has removed the term “periodical” from its definition of a magazine and also removed the requirement for members to have ABC audited circulation in an effort to remain relevant to publishers old and new. We chat to MPA executive director Pip Elliott and MPA chair Paul Dykzeul about the decision.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
Industry happenings at the Marketing Association, MediaWorks, DNA, Pocketmath and FCB.
It’s that time of year again, PR and marketing teams can let their imaginations run wild to both fool and entertain the customers. So who got tricky this April Fools?
Teens looking to escape by going overseas should think again, as Noel Leeming is teaching parents how to stay connected in its latest TVC via FCB, promoting its in-store and at-home customer services.
Charity Look Good Feel Better (LGFB) is about to be on the move, taking its classes to cancer patients around the country in a decked out shipping container organised by Boyd Public Relations, which enlisted a bunch of Kiwi brands including Mazda, BP, Mitre 10 and Sistema to help with the project.
The advertising industry is renowned for its creative offices. And hot-to-trot independent agency True’s new space in Auckland doesn’t disappoint.
Research shows trends that go up quickly also tend to go down quickly. And there’s also substantial evidence that a focus on the long-term is more profitable for businesses. So, as Emma Popping writes, while the current context often demands short-term results, we need to give brands time to grow.
The New Zealand Police have launched a new recruitment campaign in the hopes of attracting empathetic people to the force. Using a social experiment, police and Ogilvy & Mather asked Kiwis if they would walk past someone in need or stop and help. However, it’s not just questions of morality being raised, some viewers were also wary of the campaign’s tactics.
The finalists for this year’s New Zealand Radio Awards have been announced ahead of the ceremony in May, and MediaWorks and NZME are gearing up to once again battle it out for the most gongs.
Online ad viewability has long been an issue for publishers, with it being difficult to determine exactly how many people are actually viewing the ads served on a web page. And with interactive advertising spend hitting the $800 million mark this year, it seems more important than ever that advertisers know they’re getting the eyeballs they’re paying for. So, in response to the issue, MediaWorks has taken action, announcing today it’s guaranteeing all of its banner ads will be 100 percent viewable from 1 April, using Google’s DoubleClick product. We chat to MediaWorks head of digital sales and ad strategy John-Paul Randall about the change in functionality as well as the publisher’s other new function, which allows unblockable video ads to run across all platforms.
