New Zealanders love nothing more than hearing their country get a mention, especially if comes from the mouth of a foreign celebrity. Facebook pages, articles both real and satirical, and TV segments have been devoted this strange and thrilling phenomenon. And we can add another one to the list, because the The Herald has made it into The Onion’s brilliant story about the birth of the royal baby.

The global ad industry has moved closer to a duopoly with the proposed merger of Publicis Group and Omnicom set to create the world’s biggest ad network, beating out WPP. But, according to DDB Group’s executive chairman for Australia/NZ Marty O’Halloran, the creation of a company valued at US$35 billion with revenues of US$23 billion is unlikely to have much of an impact on the local agency landscape.

Last year, after six years in second place, BMW knocked Audi off its perch and reclaimed the top selling premium car mantle in the New Zealand market. But Audi isn’t far behind, it’s still growing and it’s decided to tap into the nation’s patriotic fervour with one of the German brand’s first locally shot campaigns.

If every Chinese citizen purchased just one pair of NZ wool socks we would be right’ is a genuine quote I have heard more than once from those in the industry.

Big Data—or more specifically, Big, Bad Data—is coming in for plenty of scrutiny at the moment, with some calling Edward Snowden’s revelations about government snooping a precursor to the death of the cloud and many Kiwis protesting about changes to the controversial GCSB bill around the country over the weekend. But GE isn’t worried about such trifling issues around civil liberties and democracy. It’s worried about how big data can be used to stop zombies and alien cattle snatchers, with its Datalandia campaign.

Ever wondered what happened to the Ted’s kids on How I Met Your Mother?

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

Most people can think of a lot of things they’d rather do than hear people talk about how good their night sleep was, but bed manufacturers Sealy Posturepedic want exactly that. And they’re willing to pay handsomely for it.

The New Zealand Herald’s weekly lifestyle and fashion lift out Viva is getting a makeover, along with it a brand new website and a Newsstand app.

Those smart screens are the best thing to happen to broadcast news since the introduction of colour.

It’s no hyperbole to say IFTTT has saved the world on multiple occasions from assured destruction … well perhaps it’s a slight hyperbole, but this deceptively simple productivity service has become integral to my digital universe – and without it much of it will fall into a black pit of forgetfulness.

More than half of New Zealanders now own a smartphone (54 percent), a lofty feat in technology terms which puts us almost on par with the US which is sitting on 56 percent, according to research commissioned by Google.

One of the key contributors to Auckland’s transport and planning debates has reaped a reward from grateful users.

The world is aflutter with royal baby news but this BBC news journalist is clearly fed up and unhappy with his placenta-side post.

Taken aback by the costly quotes he received for a bespoke iPhone app, Under the Radar’s founder Daryl Fincham went and bought some how-to books and developed one on his own.

Digital Arts Network takes us through a virtual tour of one of the coldest places in New Zealand.

It’s all a bit hectic down in the country’s capital. Buildings are damaged, people are frightened, geologists puffing their chests and walking around like rock stars.

There’s a perception that canned-beer is of lower quality than the bottled variant and makes the drinker look like a lout – an image that Boundary Road Brewery (BRB) and its agency Barnes, Catmur and Friends are attempting to push aside with their ‘Blind Taste Test’ campaign.