Last week, Matt Blomfield, Hell Pizza comms manager and co-owner of Pitch Televsion, told StopPress a new reality TV show that pitted young advertising creatives against each other in a series of pitching battles had been commissioned by TVNZ and would screen on Saturday nights at 7.30pm starting in May.
Naked has hired Simon Bird as one of the key personnel in its New Zealand operation. Management duties will be shared by Bird and Matt O’Sullivan, who left Carat after just nine weeks a few months back to set up the New Zealand arm of the international media agency.
The renovations are almost complete and MagMag says the launch of its new consumer magazine subscription website this week will open up a new era in magazine subscription marketing.
L’Oréal New Zealand and ZenithOptimedia are set to part ways after three years together.
MediaWorks NZ CEO Brent Impey will be stepping down from the role at the end of this year after nearly 10 years in the hot seat.
StopPress has decided to take the sage advice of Duncan Stuart and just chillax. Friday afternoon is no time for heated debates about the pros and cons of advertorial. But it’s the perfect time to bring your attention to some of the best thinkers in New Zealand rugby.
With an array of animated whizzbangery, a smoke machine, a sultry female robot voice from the future, some impressive ratings data and a fair degree of warranted braggadocio, TVNZ announced their new season line-up tonight.
TVNZ has recently launched its new business marketing/sales website tvnzplanit.co.nz to help agency folk (and advertisers, if they’re that way inclined) access TV and online sales opportunities.
Sick of banging a collection of mystery meats on the barbie when guests come calling? Tired of ignoring the culinary master within and failing to expand the recipe repertoire? Becoming morbidly obese due to a constant diet of beer and fish ‘n’ chips?
Fastline has reported that big changes are afoot for Carat, claiming both the Christchurch and Wellington offices are set to close and a number of redundancies are likely.
Are print magazines doomed? Or do the digiterati need to get off their high horse and accept that good old tactile paper is here to stay?
Only a few more hours remain to get your entries in for the Onyas, a celebration of New Zealand’s web industry brought to you by the team at Webstock.
You’ve got until midnight tonight. And remember: pressure makes diamonds.
This week from the Media Counsel: Women’s magazines and classified-centric titles fared worst in the latest readership survey. But which publications bucked the trend?
Adshel has launched its 2010 offerings with 11 redefined campaign packages, including a new innovation: New Zealand’s first mobile out of home network.
Thousands of middle-aged woman, several politicians and an array of media darlings are reeling at the news that TVNZ has decided not to commission Dancing With The Stars in 2010.
A TVNZ statement says the decision was made because the current market conditions do not support such an expensive show …
Calling all juggernauts, magnates and moguls. Paul Matthews and Alex Erasmus from Bullet PR have organised a bit of a do for the marcomms and media industries, so register online here and head down to the inaugural Media Mingle on 19 November to engage in, as the title suggests, some …
We’re quite partial to lookalikes here at StopPress and what better way to celebrate 40 years of national news than with a comparative picture of Joe 90 and his newsreading doppelgänger Bill Toft.
Joe 90
Bill Toft
It’s probably quite difficult for the instant gratification, on-demand, up-to-the-minute generation to believe, but back in the mists of time there only used to be one way to watch the news: on the telly.
A couple of months back, StopPress created something of an online hullabaloo after it ran a story on an unfortunate pictorial oversight.
NZ Life and Leisure magazine ran an image on their September cover that had been used on the February 2008 cover of KiaOra, Air New Zealand’s magazine …
AGM Publishing has launched a new online product resource, Selector.com, targeting the design, architecture and building industries.
This week from the Media Counsel. You’ll never guess who’s top of the pops in the latest radio ratings. Well, actually, you probably will. Or will you?
This week from the Consumer Counsel: What do frugal consumers want in their new products? Smart, cheap innovation, it would seem.
This week from The Media Counsel: What percentage of 13-year-olds have mobile phones? You’ll smack your gob in disbelief. Why do you need to be on LinkedIn? Hitwise Lifestyle slices and dices Kiwi web traffic for our corporate consumption. Size does matter – Aussie marketers talk up 2010 budgets.
After successfully polarising the nation on its new “self-expressive” logo, Telecom has delivered with its new TVC, featuring eight everyday Kiwis, whiz-bang graphics and a bright, positive attitude.
Several graphic and multimedia artists created original artwork to help illustrate the ‘heroes’ and what makes them spark. The images are effectively …
The world’s best financial services communications were honoured at the Midas Awards last week in New York.
TBWA\Whybin was the only NZ agency awarded this year. It won two gold ingots in the Best Online advertising category for ASB Bank ‘Crazy wwworld’ and in the Best Point-of-Purchase category …
Rapp NZ took a couple of trophies home from the International Echo Awards in San Diego last week.
It won silver in the financial section for ANZ’s ‘GettingUthru’ campaign, which consisted of asking students to send in their dollar-saving tips by email or YouTube. Students were further targeted with …
“Media owners have provided a great deal of additional value during the past six to nine months but we’re now entering a more ‘normalised’ environment. So trading will have to return to contracted levels.” – TVNZ Head of Sales Dave Walker, quoted in Planit last week (14 October 2009)
MediaWorks …
Following Conde Nast’s decision to shred five of its magazines this year, including Gourmet and Modern Bride, the publishing giant has introduced an iPhone application for its top male style title, GQ.
For only US$2.99 you can download the entire contents of the magazine, starting from the …
“Doing things differently leads to something exceptional,” says the new ‘Anthem’ TVC for Absolut Vodka. It is very cool, as you can see.
In Auckland, the launch was hyped in conjunction with Absolut Collaboration, a virtual exhibition housed in an inflatable cube in Ponsonby’s Western Park last …
American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (1863 –1951) once said these wise words, which appeared on a National Lampoon cover in 1977.
Brilliant.
Honest words, even though Hearst was known to indulge in yellow journalism that “routinely invented sensational stories, faked interviews, ran phony pictures and distorted real events”, according …