Do you know a business or marketing department that could benefit from real-time reassurances of their supposed awesomeness? You might want to treat them to a ‘fliike’ Facebook like counter.

Offices are great. Free envelopes, unlimited instant coffee, beautiful fluorescent light, increased chances of early death. But how do you accurately portray this scene? Getty Images has collated a series of strange images from its collection. And we’re sure everyone (especially those who find life-size parrots attractive) will be able to relate.

There have been plenty of column inches dedicated to matters of online security and data collection in recent months. So how easy is it for ‘freaks to take over your life?’ by stealing someone’s identity? Duval Guillaume Modem, the Belgian agency behind the fantastic ‘Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Square’, decided to find out by scaring the bejesus out of one Tom Degroote in an effort to draw attention to safe internet banking behaviour.

Today’s Best Thing on the Internet award goes to this little gem from UK pop culture blog Us vs Th3m, which produces rather convincing plot lines for Doctor Who using only six lines of JavaScript.

Dumb TVs are out. Smart TVs are in, although several studies show very few actually use the TVs for their intended purpose or even connect them to the internet because, as Wired says, “Smart TVs are the literal, biblical devil.” According to NPD, “fewer than 15 percent of smart-TV owners are listening to music, surfing the internet or shopping on their TVs.” But BGH is trying to change all that with a new campaign via Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi and Primo that shows a man with an annoying erection, a man getting punched in the face and a man looking for a prostitute—and all of them like to send emails to actors from their TV.

On the latest NZ Digital Podcast, host Paul Spain talks to ASB Bank’s online marketing team about its digital campaigns and social media activities, including #LikeLoan.

It’s been around ten years since Delmaine Fine Foods has advertised its wares on TV. But, in what national sales and marketing manager Nicky Morton says is an attempt to attract new users to the brand, it’s back on the box again with a campaign that features the line ‘it’s not easy being this good’. ​

O2 risks the wrath of cat people with its latest—and awesome—pro-canine campaign.

Are you a social media guru? Do you want to show the world how guru-ey your social-fu is? Then Social Media Stars is the show for you!

Broken arms and smelly old casts are no match for Kiwi ingenuity, thanks to a 3D-printed exoskeletal cast concept designed by a New Zealand student.

Like everything else, the internet is changing the face of journalism and the future of newsrooms – for better and worse, according to the Oriella Digital Journalism Study.

Not surprisingly, the British press went berserk after Andy ‘History Boy’ Murray became the first British male to win Wimbledon since 1936 (check out a few of the front pages here, the best of which was from The Times). And, also not surprisingly, the sponsors are getting their pound of flesh too.

The founder of Dilmah, Merrill J. Fernando, and his son Dilhan have been in New Zealand recently signing off on a new round of ads created by small Kiwi agency Curtiss and Spence and overseeing the Real High Tea Challenge. We sent Dilhan, who is being primed to take over from his father as the face of the brand, a few questions.

Maybelline New Zealand is turning the humble manicure into works of art, getting Kiwi ladies (and perhaps a few lads) to strut their 10 fingernail-sized canvases through a Facebook app.

Leigh Hart has a prominent role as the prat-falling face of Hellers. But he’s not stopping at meat. Now he’s moving into beer, with his new mostly fake brew Wakachangi—”a South Otago beer with North Canterbury flavours brewed by a West Coaster with the ol’ misty waters of the Waikato”—offering an entertaining commentary on how brewers market their wares.