For the second year in a row ASB Bank has topped Canstar’s Online Banking report for providing the best online banking experience to customers.

Kiwi digital signage company Ngage is taking its wares across the ditch, after securing a 165-screen deal with Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium.

Google recently released a video showing how its new Glasses would work. But the internet is having plenty of fun imagining how the new tech will really end up being used.

Powershop has got plenty of marketing mileage out of showing dictators, warlords and hard nosed politicians in oxymoronic situations as part of its long-running and at-times controversial ‘Same Power, Different Attitude’ campaign. Given recent global events, many wondered why its last ad chose to show Mao Tse Tung dancing to Gangnam Style rather than North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un. But it has now obliged, with another image by Doublefish showing the portly ‘Supreme Successor’ embracing his inner MAMIL, squeezing in to some lycra and going for a pedal.

I only had three days with Samsung’s latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S4. That’s not nearly enough time for me to do a proper review, so instead consider this a preview and commentary on my very fleeting flirtation with a good phone.

If you liked Chuck Testa, then you’ll also probably like this classy musical number by renowned ad cheese merchants Rhett and Link.

PopPress regularly marvels at Google’s might, its remarkable products and its creative use of technology. But after seeing a video detailing how Google Glass will work, we have a sneaking suspicion this might just create more humans who have forgotten know how to interact with real people. And in case you’re wondering, it’s already happening, because screens are bad, mmmkay.

Getty Images recently asked for submissions for creative projects that would help tell the stories of charities. And now applications are open for the 2013 Grants for Editorial Photography and Emerging Talent Award.

Lumps and milk don’t generally go too well together. Except when it comes to Primo Pineapple Lumps milk, which is the first of a few planned licensing deals between Kraft/Cadbury and Fonterra Brands over the next couple of years.

Last week was an interesting one for Ben Uffindell, editor of The Civilian and recipient of a letter from Colin Craig’s lawyers demanding an obviously satirical quote relating to Maurice Williamson’s ‘big gay rainbows’ speech be removed. Much guffawing ensued at the expense of Craig, and, after a few interviews, The Civilian went back to publishing its Onion-esque news stories, including an ‘opinion piece’ by an All Black that brilliantly juxtaposes the the mana of the black jersey with the game’s increasingly commercial focus.

The New Zealand Herald now has more than 100,000 likes on its Facebook page. The impressive feat makes NZ Herald the most popular news brand in New Zealand on the social network.

It’s widely agreed that Daniel Day Lewis is the Cliff Curtis of America: an actor with the ability to play a wide range of ethnicities, from Mohican to Irish to old American. But his latest foray into method acting is quite possibly his best yet: Obama.

The Great Phone Wars of the early Teenies have been escalating recently, with Apple fans regularly lining up for the latest toy (as comedian Tom Gleesson said at the Comedy Gala, Apple’s next move will probably be to release a product that doesn’t fit existing plugs so we’ll have to rewire our houses and we’ll still say ‘thanks Apple’) and Samsung making fun of their blinkered devotion in some of its ads. But in this new spot for the Nokia Lumia by Crispin, Porter + Bogusky and Roman Coppola, Windows thinks both of the obsessed, bickering factions should take a look at another option.

It’s always interesting to observe how brands have evolved over the years. As this infographic shows, companies like Canon and Mercedes-Benz have refined their iconic logos in fits and starts over the decades, but some are more or less unrecognisable alongside their original incarnations.

At first glance, using old ads for a new campaign seems like an easy option. But the story behind Mitsubishi and Clemenger BBDO’s campaign to celebrate the return of the Mirage proves that theory wrong.

The pet industry is massive. And growing. And at-times completely ridiculous, as evidenced by Purina’s new “cat soufflé”. Yes, that’s right, a cat soufflé.

Behind Nickelodeon cartoons such as The Penguins of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda: Legend of Awesomeness is a team of animators who just happen to be based out of New Zealand. We look inside Oktobor Animation (formerly Omnilab-owned visual effects house Oktobor) and talk to head of production Rob DiFiglia and managing director Bruce Everett about New Zealand’s blossoming digital creative scene.

Avid Twitter users will no doubt be familiar with the ‘Fail Whale’, a picture that regularly showed up when the service was over-capacity. That has become increasingly rare, however, and Yiying Lu, who designed the first image, has come up with a new one: the Success Loch Ness.