Netflix has released the trailer for the fourth season of cult comedy show Arrested Development and it’s full of more inside jokes than you can shake a Cornballer at (of course you wouldn’t shake a Cornballer because it’s likely burn your flesh off).
DraftFCB continues its ‘Ease up on the drink’ campaign for the government with a new take on an old problem in the New Zealand drinking psyche: peer pressure.
Whether you call it second, dual, multi, companion or [insert name here] screening, there is a genuine early dotcom feel about the second-screen space, says Tom Cotter. And you can tell because the industry hasn’t even named it yet. Here’s how TVNZ is trying to harness it.
The Canon Media Awards celebrated the best of New Zealand’s print and online media industry on Friday night. But the category closest to the main sponsor’s heart is obviously photography. So have a look at some of the country’s best news-related images from the past year.
TVNZ has appointed veteran news man John Gillespie as its new head of news and current affairs (the role known affectionately inside TVNZ as the HONCA).
After around three years in the role of managing director at DDB, Justin Mowday has moved up the chain and been named as chief executive, with Sandy Moore, who has been with the agency for 23 years—and at the top since 2007—stepping back to a part-time role. And in another big change, Mowday will be working closely with Chris Riley, who is moving from his role as managing director at OMD into the newly created role of chief operating officer.
The final round of the Outstanding Radio Creativity Awards (ORCA) is now done and dusted. A pair of creatives from Clemenger BBDO is $500 richer and a step closer to a trip to the Cannes Lions.
The Canadians won the space race the moment they sent commander Chris Hadfield into space. In his time aboard the International Space Station he’s taken gorgeous photos of New Zealand, answered numerous questions on Reddit and still found time to undertake the sciency things the Canadians sent him into space to do in the first place.
As evidenced by the Axis exhibition in the Viaduct Events Centre last week, it’s good to see all the work done in one year in one place. And Saatchi & Saatchi and Flying Fish did just that as part of the Axis festivities, with a clip showing some of the quality video content created by local agencies and directors in 2012/2013.
Whybin\TBWA’s David Walden was honoured for his long—and entertaining—career in advertising on Thursday night at the Axis awards. So have a gander at this video to see what the people he has worked with over the years, like Andy Blood, ASB’s Barbara Chapman (who debunks a few myths), Roy Meares and Mike Hutcheson, had to say about the quintessential ad man, charming rogue and renowned restaurant-goer.
This Sunday saw the inaugural Chromacon illustration and animation convention hit Auckland City, bringing with it a host of talented illustrators, designers and world creators.
As someone whose illustration prowess goes only as far as drawing shaky stick figures, I was awed by all the artwork crammed into Aotea Square. Not so awed that I couldn’t ask a few of the illustrators who caught my eye a question or two.
As part of our push to remind you marcomms folk to get your entries in for the 2013 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards (there’s still 15 days left) we’re asking some past winners to tell us about their glorious victory, what it meant to the business and why these awards are different. Here’s why Geoff Matthews, director of BrandCom and winner of awards for Mt. Cook Alpine Salmon, Red Witch guitar pedals and taxrefunds.co.nz, reckons you should enter.
It’s one night where the big challenges currently being faced by the print media industry are brushed to one side and the hard work of photographers, journalists, artists, designers, cartoonists, editors and many others—both in print and, increasingly, online—is celebrated at the Canon Media Awards. And it was APN’s newly compacted New Zealand Herald that came away with the top prize.
As purveyors of only the finest typos here at StopPress, we couldn’t help but notice this gem from last night’s Axis awards, where the name of a certain lifetime achievement award recipient was spelled wrong. Devo is thought to have demanded a public hanging to boost morale.
Kiwi in the mix for IT PR awards, new planner on board the Air NZ plane for DraftFCB, Pead brings on more young talent, and fashion firepower for Starseed.
Last year, Clemenger BBDO’s Ghost Chips won a yellow pencil at D&AD the same night it was snubbed at Axis. But this time the planets were in alignment, because DraftFCB’s grand axis winning Driving Dogs for Mini and SPCA has also won a prestigious gold pencil in the integrated branding, consumer campaign category at the One Show.
To draw attention to the role Red Cross plays in New Zealand and around the world—and to raise more money so it can keep doing it—Y&R NZ and Flying Fish have created an animated TVC that follows the instantly recognisable white and red box through a range of crises the charity deals with.
DraftFCB’s senior copywriter Peter Vegas wasn’t there in person to see Driving Dogs clean up at Axis (he was in New York collecting a few other awards the campaign had won). But, with the help of a few cardboard masks, he was there in spirit.
The Hip Op-eration dance crew is the dopest, flyest dance crew to ever come out of Waiheke – and it’s lending its street cred to the ASB Stage Challenge.
As director and filmmaker Tony Kaye said to the gathered marcomms folk yesterday afternoon during his mad but wise speech, “you’ve just got to keep making shit”. And of all the shit that was made in the past year and a bit in this country, DraftFCB’s Driving Dogs for Mini and SPCA was chosen as the best.
Ikon Communications has won 2degrees as a client, snatching the number three telco away from its previous partner Carat.
If you’ve had dreams of managing The Beatles but haven’t quite figured out where to begin your management career (or how to build a time machine), Indie Music Manager is the game for you.
In a display of some truly Hunter S Thompson-esque journalism, Radio Live presenter and the other half of Guyon Espiner, Duncan Garner took some synthetic canabis to show people it’s dangerous – or something like that.
As if taking on the rather sizeable job as Fairfax’s Auckland editor-in-chief wasn’t stressful enough, Garry Ferris’s home was robbed three times in his first eight days in Auckland. But despite the tough introduction and fairly troubling times for print media—and the company he’s now working for—the avowed newspaper man is still remarkably chipper.
Google New Zealand’s latest financial statement to the government shows the search giant paid $165,000 to the tax man in 2012.
Australian digital agency Bullseye Digital has given itself a new coat of paint with a retro–vintage makeover to make the staunchest hipster proud. With the new look comes a new attitude, which includes aspirations for growing the company in New Zealand.
Medium.com has been around for a few months. Another brainchild of Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone, it’s a clean and simple publishing community for posts longer than Twitter’s 140 character limit, but less than a novel. In other words, medium length posts.
The Radio Network (TRN) has tapped Yahoo New Zealand general manager (soon to be ex-general manager) Laura Maxwell-Hansen as its new commercial director.
Microsoft surprised the world last year when it unveiled the Surface RT, a tablet manufactured by what is traditionally a software company. I was blown away by its beautiful design and dissimilarities to the iPad. In a field of Apple clones, the Surface RT is refreshingly its own device. Microsoft launched the Surface RT in New Zealand earlier this year and for the past few weeks I’ve been giving it a test drive.
