Yealands is on a mission to toast six Kiwis on sustainable journeys with its online campaign Raise a Glass. The campaign website, developed by Satellite Media, showcases each finalist’s story, including musician Iva Lamkum, Frank Stationery owner Jason Holdaway and Sea2Summit7 adventurer Dave Williams, who raises awareness and funds for male mental health.
Fairfax says its partnership with the team behind an app that brings together grass roots sports fans, clubs, live streams and content could be the first of other opportunities that tap into crowdsourcing in different verticals. The marketing and advertising partnership is with Waterboy, dreamed up by former All Black Kees Meuws.
Heyday has given Z Energy’s Token Hunt game a spruce up this year, expanding it to six challenges and including a strong focus on Google Maps integration. And it’s made smart use of data to keep participants involved.
The Press Council is weighing different fee levels for bloggers and digital media organisations starting in the hundreds of dollars for non-commercial organisations. Bloggers could also be considered as representative members if they become significant funders, the council’s executive committee chair says.
The Starship Foundation and Whittaker’s Big Egg Hunt already has one live website and will soon get another to support the campaign. The organisers are also going big on social media with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and ‘Egg-stagrams’.
Little Sister Films has created an interactive clip for this year’s Deloitte Graduate Recruitment programme, which puts the outcome in the hands of the viewer. The video used the Rapt Media player, a custom-built camera-mounted helmet and a dash of creativity.
Gladeye carried out the full range of digital services in creating a site that showcased Air New Zealand’s support of scientific research in Antarctica. The website made full use of imagery and video supplied by National Geographic. Plus: Gladeye gets international recognition for its own site.
TVNZ Blacksand’s microsite for the Step Dave show could be the forerunner to further efforts to complement on-screen viewing. The site has character information, video, extra scenes and a virtual version of the fridge that features on the show.
Spotify has a new way of sorting the stars from the also-rans in the music world, which harnesses the power of real-time data. Spotify Emerge is a collaboration with HP that determines emerging artists by the reach their tracks generate.
A new website developed by Wellington economic development agency Grow Wellington and built by DNA showcases the capital’s tech success stories, with the aim of stirring more to invest and work in the city’s high-growth sector.
The ‘Spark Should’ page Telecom set up to take feedback on its name change later this year has seen customers complaining about a range of product and service issues as well as the new brand. The company says the page could become a permanent feedback mechanism.
For the third year in a row, Roy Morgan handed out awards to 24 Kiwi businesses that showed the highest levels of customer satisfaction, when measured against its annual survey of over 12,000 New Zealanders.
Socialize Media has created a new site, The Big Upgrade, aimed at showing off what Kiwis can do with ultrafast broadband. It’s created its first set of online videos and launched the site across a number of social media channels.
Google has awarded Kiwi AdWords partner Localist for AdWords quality in a category open to its group of premier small and medium business Premier AdWords partners on both sides of the Tasman. The quality score measures how relevant ads are to users.
Bullseye’s Moments campaign, which sees Auckland Airport arrival and departure experiences shared in photo and video, played a part in its business director securing a Sitecore award for digital strategy.
Attitude Pictures is taking to its website to stream video after securing broadcast rights to their year’s Paralympics. Attitudelive.com, built by Pitch, has features that cater for an audience that includes those with disability.
A new property on Sportal.co.nz will showcase localised NBA content and live games as part of a new deal between the basketball organistion and Sportal owner Perform. The digital group says it’s a chance for advertisers to reach out to the often hard to target demographic of 18-34 year old males.
&some is charting new territory for Wendy’s in New Zealand with a digital only campaign, Wendy’s Mates Rates. It’s designed to be a fresh offering for a younger crowd and lets diners order by hand gesture (rest assured they’re all polite).
Destination Rotorua Marketing has released a new web-based video series showcasing the region’s hidden tourism gems. The six part series builds on last year’s Famously Rotorua TVC fronted by schoolgirl Te Rina West.
AA Life and interactive partner DigitalWorks Worldwide have revamped the website with new tools and video content designed to simplify the very taboo topic of life insurance.
Little Giant has kicked off 2014 with a revamped one page scrolling site for this year’s Beer Festival which allows different organisers to chip in with content. The site is an iteration of last year’s, when it overhauled the festival’s branding.
The Christmas shopping season saw more Kiwis go online for purchases, but the rate of online spending growth by New Zealanders on Christmas Day was higher for retailers whose sites are based offshore than for locals, according to BNZ and Marketview’s latest provisional figures.
In a new series, we talk to Kiwi keyboard tappers that have managed to shift from the personal realm of blogging to create online media brands that are widely read (and in some cases profitable). In the first segment, we chat to Jamie Frater, the founder of Listverse.
The look and functionality of Kim Dotcom’s long awaited music service Baboom has been revealed and so far it’s a showcase of the internet entrepreneur and his album Good Times.
Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.
Auckland company Assembly has created a new site for Sony’s ‘Be Moved’ brand campaign, which showcases a selection of products as the sum of their parts. Animations give the appearance of product assembly to seven products as visitors scroll through the site.
Viewership of broadcast TV is declining here and around the world. And, in correlation, some consumers appear to have largely checked out of advertising altogether, writes Andrew Lewis. So a reliance on brand-led communications to drive engagement will be found wanting.
The Radio Network may boost other big names with internet-based shows as it adopts an on demand model. This week it launched the Polly and Grant Show on digital platform iHeartRadio.
America’s Cup support ultimately proved futile, but the sporting event rated among Kiwis top Google searches of 2013 alongside the royal baby, pop darling Lorde and fallen stars Cory Monteith and Paul Walker. And according to the trends, we’re into Bitstrips, Grumpy Cat and finding out how to kiss.
Dish magazine has a new website to satisfy readers’ appetites for news and tips in between its bi-monthly print editions. The responsive website will include more hospitality news and content previously only offered via its Facebook page.