We posted a whole host of fancy, often fantastical and fairly big budget Christmas ads from overseas a few days ago. Now Sainsbury’s has joined the fray, and it’s knocked it out of the park with its emotional, user-generated festive film.

Brands are pretty keen to get themselves on the big screen these days. And, as Dodge has shown with Ron Burgundy, fictional characters make for pretty good spokespeople. So what do you say L’Oréal? It’s a match made in heaven—literally.

A Christchurch company with a long history in media production and an early adopter of YouTube is on a growth drive among organisations that have a message to beam to the masses.

Non-profit animal rights organisation Safe is pulling at Kiwi heartstrings with a new TVC that aims to spread awareness about factory farming in New Zealand. StopPress takes a look behind the scenes to see what it takes for a non-profit organisation to produce a TVC.

Nestle in South Africa went all sweet and gooey on the recent launch of Android’s KitKat OS with an exhibition of 3D printed chocolate sculptures. The 10 sculptors managed to resist scoffing their works of art before putting them on display.

The New Zealand Herald has just hit its 150th birthday milestone. So what better time to look back on happier, simpler and more profitable times for the newspaper. StopPress takes a look at some vintage Herald ads.

GE is celebrating staging a concert in New York’s Union Square with the latest instalment in its Brilliant Machines campaign. The star act is literally heavy metal: it’s a group of robots named Fingers, Bones and Stickboy.

Don’t you hate it when you miss your bus, a meeting, or are forced to sleep rough in a cafe because they turned out the lights a and left without you realising? That’s what happens to the unfortunate schmucks in AT&T’s promo for a zero down offer on the latest iPhones.

The jandals are out in force, many have had the first sunburn of the season and the beaches are filling up. Summer is almost upon us once again, so to celebrate the closeness of the great yellow orb, here’s Getty’s top-selling beach-moment images in New Zealand.

You know you’ve made it when you’ve featured on the likes of Mashable, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web and Daily Mail, without spending anything on marketing except your own time. That’s what three Kiwis and a Londoner have achieved with their 3D photo app Seene.

Imagistory, an app that encourages kids to use their imaginations to create stories from picture books, is among to first to use Kickstarter as the site gets set to launch downunder today. Founder Nick Barrett won the top award in AUT’s Venture Fund for the app concept in 2011, which provided a $7300 boost. He’s now seeking $15,000 on Kickstarter.

The Warehouse Group has brought its own version of the 24-hour online buy-up Cyber Monday to New Zealand, ahead of another Kiwi event based on the concept. The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming, Red Alert, Torpedo7, 1-Day, ilovebeauty, pet.co.nz, No.1 Fitness and shotgunsupplements.co.nz were among the participants in the group’s 12 November event.

Ogilvy and Mather’s compares hazardous substances to weaponry in its new campaign for the EPA. The provacative campaign has been placed in industrial areas in the hope it will catch the attention of those who use dangerous products every day.

Following the successful brand projects for Jazz and Envy apples, Turners & Growers approached BRR with a unique brief to take the Bonita brand and export label and create an engaging brand for generations of kiwi banana lovers. Inspired by the flair for life in South American culture, BRR saw the opportunity to introduce a sense of personality, energy and positivity into the Bonita brand and the wider category.