
City slickers who have given up on the big smoke but can’t tell the difference between a cow and a fence post have a new site to look to for advice on rural living.
City slickers who have given up on the big smoke but can’t tell the difference between a cow and a fence post have a new site to look to for advice on rural living.
Mention the word drones and images of indiscriminate bombing come to mind. But Ex-Wired editor Chris Anderson has a different take on things and he’s been extolling the virtues of—and making a business out of—unmanned flying devices for years. Now Domino’s has also seen the light and, as this video of the ‘DomiCopter’ shows, the pizza of the future might be airborne.
Getty Images’ Hulton Archive goes almost all the way back to the birth of photography. So, as part of an effort to highlight the breadth and depth of historic content available there, it teamed up with Short and Sweet to launch a film challenge with a twist.
All Blacks sponsors have a long history of piecing together some game-day footage, showing a few big hits, adding a bit of emotive language to illustrate the mana of the black jersey and trying to give Kiwis a few goosebumps. Adidas did it to pretty good effect during the Rugby World Cup. And, with the game against the French kicking off on Saturday, Steinlager, which has sponsored the All Blacks for 27 years, has done it as well with a dubstep-backed ode to one of the most successful teams in world sport.
My love hate relationship with Samsung’s Galaxy Note range now spans over two years of smartphones and tablets. These flagship devices known for the signature S Pen stylus inputs, border gimmicky on one end and business essential on the other. With the Galaxy Note 8.0, Samsung has created a device that’s definitely more latter than the former – putting a powerful iPad Mini competitor in the hands of consumers (for a price).
While print media continues to tumble and find its footing in the digital age, online advertising is on a rocket ride to the top. According to PwC’s latest entertainment and media outlook, online advertising is expected to reach $543 million in annual revenue by 2017.
The Dollar Shave Club guy, otherwise known as Michael Dubin, earned legions of fans for his very entertaining launch video. And he’s back with no.2—and an array of no. 2 puns—to promote the arrival of his next product: butt wipes for men.
Film duo Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali (aka Special Problems) permiered their short film Echoes at Cannes last month to some of the biggest names in the global film industry.
Two of the country’s biggest TV shows came to their seasons’ end over the long weekend, with the fourth seasons of MasterChef NZ and My Kitchen Rules (MKR) continuing to bring in the viewers for TVNZ despite competition from MediaWorks’ big show X Factor NZ.
The psychology of food and the changing quest for employment receive a warm embrace this week.
Coca-Cola’s branding for the past few years has been all about “sharing the happiness” (as opposed to sharing its secret ingredients). Taking that point to the next level is a new can design from Ogilvy which twists to reveal two small cans – perfect for sharing with friends or other Coke addicts.
If Bear Grylls can do it, Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam reckons Heineken drinkers can too.
Coat-tailing on the success of The Hobbit trilogy is paying off for Tourism New Zealand and it says it’s a strategy that will feature heavily in the organisation’s three-year plan for marketing the country to the rest of the world.
Just like its father/mother is in the online auction space, TradeMe Jobs is the most-visited New Zealand jobs site, reaching that goal a couple of years ago. And, it’s aiming to stay there with the help of its first-ever brand campaign via JWT.
By combining beautiful illustrations, a simple narrative and highly interactive data – Sadaf Lourie (writer), Riccardo Scott (illustrator), Jarred Bishop (designer/developer) and Alex Gibson (data/developer) have won the May Showcase Award from the Mix & Mash competition – along with a $500 cash prize.
After a stellar 2012 on the awards front, Colenso BBDO was named the world’s best advertising agency by the Big Won report. And it aims to stay at the top. In an article that originally appeared in NZ Marketing, Ben Fahy talks commercial creativity, Kiwi clobbering machines and the increasing importance of IP with Nick Garrett and Nick Worthington.
Kiwi mobile advertising company Snakk Media has released its first annual revenue figures since listing on the New Zealand Alternative Exchange (NZAX) earlier this year, raking in $3,654,346 between March 2012 and March 2013 – an 83 percent growth year-on-year.
As the AskewOne piece on the wall beside Auckland’s south-western motorway says, ‘better never stops’. And Charlie’s Trading Co. has acknowledged that philosophy by creating a new corporate brand called The Better Drinks Co.
Goodby Silverstein and Partners’ Got Milk? campaign for the California Milk Processor Board was one of the most memorable campaigns of the ’90s and became part of the pop cultural furniture in the US. It helped increased milk consumption in California, it has spawned a host of parodies and it’s still going strong today. So why is the phrase being used by Fonterra to advertise its Anchor brand?
A recent decision in the UK found that Marks & Spencer misled consumers by using a competitor’s name—‘interflora’—as a keyword trigger for advertisements on Google. AJ Park’s Nigel Robb looks at what it might mean for Kiwi marketers.
Niklas Roy, the self-described inventor of useless things, talks to the Semi-Permanent crowd about the colliding worlds of engineering, design and artistry.
Raising money for charities and not-for-profits is a much more difficult job than it used to be, given the number of competing organisations and the economic strain of recent years. But there were plenty of impressive efforts showcased at the Fundraising Excellence awards in Wellington earlier this month.
A weekly wrap of funny things, good things, weird things and other things seen on the intertubes.
There’s a lot of talk these days about modern marketing and advertising offering consumers utility. And that’s mostly what it is: talk. But to promote its range of sun products in Brazil, Nivea has walked that talk with a handy print ad that, with the help of a small solar panel, can charge your phone.
New World has been celebrating its 50th anniversary recently. And Foodstuffs has taken steps to ensure a few more successful years in the grocery biz by appointing Colenso BBDO as its official brand agency.
We kick off this assault of creativity and thinking with a presentation from artist and illustrator Sandra Dieckmann.
‘Perfection erases humanity’. And in the coming years, Contagion’s channel director Richard Thompson says brands will need to master a strategy that helps talk with audiences in a more authentic, real way.
ANZ’s corporate affairs and marketing team has already received plenty of plaudits for last year’s horse management. And it has been acknowledged again after winning the PRINZ supreme award for its ‘New Zealand Simplification Project’.
There have been some massive changes inside Telecom recently, with chief executive Simon Moutter announcing a restructure that plans to axe between 930 to 1280 jobs by the middle of this year a few months back. And as a direct result of the decision to reduce the headcount, it has outsourced a few previously internal functions and appointed Clemenger Group-owned Touch/Cast.
As the smartphone revolution continues, the demand for mobile applications has burgeoned. A bombardment of apps, big and small, jostle for precious screen space, but it is only those that amplify a brand through personal engagement and valuable experiences that will find App Store success.