Roy has been very busy finding out just how happy Kiwis (and a few Aussies) are with the products and services they spend their hard-earned dosh on, and Pumpkin Patch, TSB bank, Bunnings and Air New Zealand are some of the major brands currently winning hearts and minds with their top notch customer service.
A campaign aiming to highlight the importance of the printed word in everyday life has been launched this month by PrintNZ, with over 100 Kiwi “print champions” so far forking out $200 to confirm their support for the industry association’s Part of Life initiative.
nzherald.co.nz has launched a new section in partnership with Nokia called nzherald.co.nz/play, which draws in existing content, sorts it by psychographics rather than sections and displays it all in a simpler, dynamic and more visually appealing way.
ANZ will be the fourth worldwide partner for the Rugby World Cup 2011 (RWC 2011), placing it alongside fellow top tier sponsors Emirates, MasterCard and Heineken and making it the official bank of the Rugby World Cup.
Planners and strategists crave it. Creative types (particularly Geoff Ross) typically loathe it. But whatever your feelings on the role of market research, it’s an important aspect of the marcomms landscape. So how can researchers enhance the effectiveness of their work? And what is its role in the modern business environment?
The advertising Lazy Susan continues to spin. And there’s been another big switcheroo: Justin Mowday has swapped his managing director cap at DraftFCB for a snazzy new one at DDB.
In this week’s Ads@6, we’re taking the simplistic, overly repetitive yet highly effective Auckland Glass approach: *smash* StopPress *smash* StopPress. *smash* StopPress. If it’s about ads, call StopPress. We’ve only just recovered from the horror that is the Foreno tapware TVC. The happy wife gauge may be high. But so is the ‘wow, that’s a really crap ad’ gauge. And how ’bout that Sydnicity?
134 years ago, rugged Southern Men roamed the Mainland prairies and would religiously swig from their bottle of Speight’s after a tough day of clearing gorse, lambing ewes, breaking in horses, tilling soil and mining. And it’s exactly the same down there today. Of course, New Zealanders hate change, but there comes a time when it’s unavoidable, so the Speight’s box is getting a bit of a spruce up. And what better image to signify the Pride of the South than the tussock-clad fields of the Lindis Pass.
The cold winter months are just around the corner and pretty soon the sun’s warmth will seem a distant memory. Fortunately Woman’s Day magazine has just opened its Fiji 2010 trip offering media buyers and their clients three days and three nights at the Intercontinental Fiji Golf Resort and Spa later this year.
It’s been almost six months since Saatchi & Saatchi’s then chief executive Andrew Stone and executive creative director Mike O’Sullivan packed their bags and wandered out the doors. Not surprisingly, the rumours about their future plans were plentiful, but the major one, that the pair would be getting into bed with Droga5, has now come to fruition.
If you believe the comments of the erudite chaps enlisted to talk about New Zealand’s economic situation at the CAANZ/ANZA seminar ‘Nurturing the Green Shoots’, it’s all good news for the marcomms industry in 2010 and the years ahead.
Ecostore wants to take on the world. So it’s appointed Special Group as the design and communications agency to help do it.
Sustainable business just got whole lot hotter, or cooler, with the launch of Celsias Weekly, a newsletter and daily new service and social media website for green business.
The next round of New Zealand Post Targeted Communications’ hugely popular (and free) direct marketing workshops is upon us and marketers are urged to book their places as soon as possible to avoid a lifetime of bitter regret, low self esteem and other forms of emotional damage.
There have been a plethora of announcements about finalists and nomination lists for international advertising awards in the last few days. And just a select few Kiwi agencies have garnered accolades and praise for their handiwork.
Another day, another dollar, another story, another story after that, and then a few more stories to finish. Who said story-telling is dead.
Today is Noise Awareness Day so, in an effort to draw attention to the perils of ‘loudocity’, DDB has created a nifty campaign for the National Foundation for the Deaf that aims to alert Kiwis to some of the DIY tools that could cause permanent damage.
Questions were asked and the answers were given by Julien Smith, the keynote speaker at the upcoming Social Media Junction and New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust, which was singled out by Amazon.com as one of the top 10 business and investing books of 2009.
A sobering report released today by the Law Commission on the sale and promotion of liquor recommends significant changes to how it is marketed in New Zealand. So, marketers in the liquor industry and agencies with liquor and supermarket accounts need to prepare themselves.
Not content just being the chief executive of the Clemenger Group, Jim Moser will also take up a role on the Board of Trustees for the Auckland Festival, with Colenso BBDO becoming a Gold Sponsor of the 2011 event in return for advertising services.
Škoda New Zealand has appointed Big Communications as its strategic and creative agency, with James Yates, general manager of Škoda New Zealand saying that the agency presented a compelling strategy for the brand in a three-way pitch.
DDB’s brand TVC relaunch campaign for ANZ empathises with everyday New Zealanders and aims to demonstrate the bank “lives in their world”. Awww, those caring banks. The ads were shot by local director Adam Stevens from Robbers Dog and were filmed in and around Auckland (check out …
Mashable recently published an article highlighting research done by a social media management firm called Virtue, which looked at the value of a Facebook fan. According to its research, a fan was worth US$3.60 per year. Bear with me as I get mathematical.
It’s been almost four months since Glenda Wynyard and her company The Media Counsel ceased trading. And on 22 April Boris van Delden and Iain McLennan of “insolvency and business recovery experts” McDonald Vague (MVP) were finally appointed as liquidators.
In this edition of Michael Carney’s Marketing Week: Feature creep: how we really use our phones (and brains). Radio: now online and maybe even with pictures. The perils of mobile stalking via GPS. All hail the Super Marketer. If you’re going to spoil your kids, at least do it properly
In case you hadn’t noticed, that digital internet thingee has become relatively popular of late. And the second bi-annual survey by AUT’s institute for culture, discourse and communication (ICDC), along with a few other esteemed research outfits, have offered up a range of percentages to prove it.
Following the release of the winning Auckland Super City logo last week, the Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ), which was already fairly bitter about the whole crowd-sourced process, doesn’t think it’s too late to salvage some respectability, but only if the new Auckland Transition Agency engages a professional design agency to ensure it is developed as a “sophisticated, contemporary and effective” visual identity and subsequent brand for the city.
The chosen ones (via nzherald.co.nz)
So, we got what we expected from the Super City logo competition: a rather staid, traditional, old fashioned, unimaginative mark that looks like the old Regional Parks emblem. From the Super City I wanted a logo that expresses the modern, dynamic, diverse, creative, vibrant, commercial city that is Auckland. And I don’t get that from this.
A virtual cornucopia of televisual commercial messages for your perusal. In the tick category, the new ANZ campaign has a bit of a laff at the expense of others (and also gets empathetic, claiming to understand what its embattled customers have to put up with); McDonald’s push into the family dinner market with a lying father; and, advertising a product that’s renowned for fairly boring adverts, Panasonic’s heatpump ad is a breath of fresh fantastical air. In the cross category, South Australia tourism decides to bore its audience into coming for a visit.
