Four thousand initial entries from across New Zealand have been stripped down to 20 finalists for this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition.
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Following in the footsteps of some overseas entities like Wired and Volkswagen, ASB has opened the doors of its new North Wharf head office to the world by creating New Zealand’s largest commercial interior Google Street View tour.
Google is basically the nervous system of the modern world, and that’s best evidenced by the screen in the Googleplex showing the real-time search queries from around the world (minus the dirty ones, apparently). The auto-complete feature aims to predict what you’re going to ask about based on other popular searches and usually the results are either relevant or quite funny. But a new campaign for United Nations Women by Ogilvy & Mather Dubai has used this democratic online function to show how endemic sexism still is around the world.
Kiwi internet users continue to fuel the growth of global heavyweight websites like Google and Facebook and homegrown successes like Trade Me. Horizon Research’s latest numbers show Google is the country’s most used website.
Paul Thornton discusses recent changes to Google’s algorithm and how these can affect businesses online.
The 65th Primetime Emmys are coming up soon. But before they choose the best actors and TV shows, they chose the best commercial and it was Canon’s beautiful ‘Inspired’ spot by Grey and MJZ director Nicolai Fuglsig that took it out.
Google was up to K for the latest version of its Android OS, 4.4 – this time generic sweet treats have taken a back seat to some Kitkat campaign deliciousness. These chocolate bars are the perfect second screen companion, compatible with all liquid accessories.
Google and Ipsos have just released the global smartphone usage survey for 2013. And Kiwi consumers are doing more, buying more and expecting more from the smartphone experiences that brands are presenting, says Jonathan Dodd.
If you’ve ever been self-conscious about your dress, don’t worry: you could be traipsing around New Zealand carrying an 18kg backpack that looks like an alien invention.
More than half of New Zealanders now own a smartphone (54 percent), a lofty feat in technology terms which puts us almost on par with the US which is sitting on 56 percent, according to research commissioned by Google.
Without much fanfare Google has launched its terribly-named streaming music service Play Music All Access in New Zealand Australia, the first markets to receive it following the launch in the US in May.
We love taking voyeuristic journeys into the lives of people lucky enough to be on Google’s Glass Explorer programme.
This time we see through the eyes of professional tennis player Bethanie Mattek-Sands as she prepares for Wimbledon.
Programmatic ad buying is a cornerstone of online advertising, spread by the influence of global ad networks such as Google. But MediaWorks Interactive and Ecostore have attempted to flip that model on its head—and they are shouting from the rooftops about their results.
Sim Ahmed tags along with the Google X team behind Project Loon, documenting through photos the mad (but oddly brilliant) science experiment being conducted by one of the biggest companies in the world, right in the heart of the South Island.
Google’s Project Loon combines ballooning with telecommunications, with the hope of one day inexpensively connecting billions of people around the world to the internet with a global network of balloons. It’s a science experiment so crazy, it might just work.
In the war for talent, the marcomms sector is on the frontlines, with regular poaching of staff and a strong desire for those attracted to the industry to take on ‘new challenges’. So how do you attract and retain staff in this digital age? While employees are motivated by perks and pay, new research from Deloitte and Google has found that workplace IT is becoming an increasingly important factor.
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.
From the Chrome speed tests to ‘Here’s to the Moms’ to the Cannes grand prix-winning Project Rebrief, Google’s advertising is usually of a very high standard. And it’s done it again with this nerd fest of a 90 second commercial for Chrome that charts the evolution of the internet and shows that ‘we’re building the web together’.
A round up of the news from Google’s I/O conference, including news of a new streaming music service, redesigns everywhere, map goodness and tools for frazzled Android developers.
Google New Zealand’s latest financial statement to the government shows the search giant paid $165,000 to the tax man in 2012.
On what would have been the 93rd birthday of American graphic designer and film-maker Saul Bass, Google has honoured him with a doodle.
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.
It’s only taken a year and half, but Google Play Music is finally available in New Zealand.
Some might argue there’s a degree of trickery every day of the year in the world of marketing and media. But it’s taken to much more preposterous levels—and is almost actively encouraged—on April Fool’s Day. So here’s a collection of the best pranks, fakes and subterfuges from New Zealand and around the world.
It’s no easy feat to have one out of every seven people on the planet surfing your site for videos of cats and Justin Bieber, but that’s exactly what YouTube’s achieved this month.
When we spoke with Google’s country manager Tony Keusgen last year, he was openly beating the white coat marketing drum and said the New Zealand industry had a long way to go when it came to properly embracing evidence-based marketing. And he seems to have found an ally in that crusade in Vivaki, which has signed up for one of the biggest YouTube inventory deals in the company’s history on the back of a research project that looked at the prevalence of dual screening in New Zealand.
Bad news for millions of people (including a few in StopPress office judging by the weeping in the corner) – Google Reader is no longer. The news aggregation and RSS tool is to be axed in July, according to Google.
A year ago Google New Zealand consisted of three people who would fly back and forth from Sydney to manage sales over here. Now there’s about a dozen sales staff working in Auckland.
If you log into Google+ today you’ll notice a facelift on the social network and the addition of a few new features including reviews and juiced up cover photos.
Google’s Glass project makes us go “wow!” and “whoa!”, but could augmented reality also make us go “wtf?” in the future.