With a life expectancy longer than ever, the over 50 age group is more active, working longer and spending more. They also have aspirations to see the world, which Globus is fulfilling by reaching out to them through GrownUps with ads and unique travel packages.
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Earlier this year, Cigna acquired the GrownUps website, opening the door to new insights and a greater understanding of the 50-plus market. And while it’s still early days, Cigna chief executive Lance Walker says marketers across the industry should be following suit and taking the time to better understand this important market.
A look at the bespoke solutions Fairfax is creating with its content studio, and the results they deliver.
Take a celebrity chef, 50 influential guests and a willing sponsor and you have the perfect ingredients for food lovers. Here’s how Metro and Taste magazine brought all these things together for its Seasonal Suppers campaign.
It’s been an interesting year for radio with the battle of Hosking and Henry and wider NZME and MediaWorks competition as hot as ever. NZME group entertainment director Dean Buchanan shares his thoughts on the survey results and offers a few insights into the future of radio.
Fairfax Media is looking to tackle the big issues facing business in a quickly changing marketplace through a new event series called the Future of Business.
Home magazine, full of beautiful design and architecture, is not somewhere readers would expect to see a campaign that
raises awareness about domestic violence. However, as it turns out, the Home pages made the perfect place for ‘It’s not OK’ to reach an audience.
How PHD Media enlisted Phantom Billstickers to unleash ghosts onto city streets to promote the latest Ghostbusters film.
Ask any parent of a teenager and they’ll likely tell you their kids don’t want to be told what to do, and the approach to encouraging them on how to choose a university has traditionally been to shout so-called inspirational messages at them through a TV screen. But this year, Bauer sought to approach potential students differently, providing them with an experience instead, in the form of an activation run at Auckland City Limits on behalf of Lincoln University with its partner Nudie Jeans.
Rural advertising regularly sticks to some well-trodden tropes. But Pan Media founder Graeme Blake believes this doesn’t have to be the case. Damien Venuto chats to him about injecting a bit of creative flair into the regions.
Getty Images has launched a short film competition called ‘Let’s Make Something’, and it wants Kiwis creatives to get involved. Find out how.
Bacardi launched its ‘Untameable since 1862’ campaign globally at the end of 2013, telling the story of the Bacardi family through generations of obstacles and challenges in Cuba in the wake of the communist revolution. ZenithOptimedia picked Phantom Billstickers to get the brand’s word onto the street, where Phantom ensured the creative would be viewed by as many eyeballs as possible, rain or shine, night or day.
There’s often a cold perception of sterility surrounding healthcare, but a new campaign for Southern Cross Hospitals is trying to show a different side to the industry.
Choosing an adtech partner isn’t easy, as Trustpower’s Wayne Ramshaw explains. Here’s why he settled on AdRoll.
Mumbrella founder and content director Tim Burrowes gives the lowdown on this year’s edition of Mumbrella360. Plus: StopPress readers can get their hands on a massive AUD$500 off two- or three-day passes.
Lewis Road Creamery, one of the country’s most-loved brands, is currently looking for someone to take on the role of new product development manager and the brief is deceptively simple: help take new product ideas from a blank sheet of paper to the supermarket shelf as quickly as possible. Sound like your cup of tea (with milk)? Then read on.
Media boundaries are being pushed every minute of every day, in every country around the world. Whether it’s new entrants to market, the role traditional media plays, or how quickly media organisations can adapt to changing audience consumption patterns, sitting still is not an option. So where does that leave New Zealand media organisations like NZME? Transformation. Big word. Big job. Big change – and big difference.
In a business categorised by change, creative agency Goodfolk maintains focus by having a good sense of self.
Sovereign’s brand platform ‘Life. Take Charge’ was about moving away from simply being a health insurance ambulance at the bottom of the cliff to becoming a company that could help make Kiwis healthier. And to achieve that goal, it worked with Bauer to conduct research, uncover insights and create bespoke health and wellbeing content that ran in print and online.
When the Australian media companies attempted to come together to form a similar alliance across the ditch, the effort failed because various players were simply unwilling to collaborate. But the local players did not allow the same to happen. Setting aside their partisan differences and prioritising the importance of creating a strong local programmatic network, Fairfax Media, MediaWorks, NZME and TVNZ successfully came together to form KPEX.
Here’s why the execs determined the move was worthwhile.
Ziera’s traditional ‘spray and pray’ approach to marketing was proving to be both expensive and ineffective, so it approached Bauer to help create its own more fashionable twice-yearly magazine and app. And that experiment has paid off big time.
As the production partner on Grand Designs New Zealand, ANZ’s support helped TV3 showcase some amazing Kiwi properties. But the bank wanted to extend its sponsorship of the show and offer another, slightly more accessible layer of design inspiration,
so it worked with Bauer and Spark PHD to develop a content platform called Designs for Living.
Their business has been called the ‘unsexy side of marketing’ by one of New Zealand’s leading business publications, but the partners of Auckland-based digital marketing firm Search Republic aren’t bothered. Two years after launch, the search-based consultancy is delivering outstanding – and seductive – results. And it’s only just getting started.
It’s one of the most widely read magazines in New Zealand and yet its cover spends most of its life hidden from public view. So what is it about KiaOra that gets hundreds of thousands of Kiwis digging into seatbacks of Air New Zealand planes every month?
While virtual reality and other tech trinkets will attract all the attention this year, Element Digital founder Kevin Fitzsimons reckons customer experience should remain a priority to marketers looking to keep their customers satisfied.
As part of a content partnership with MediaWorks, we’ve asked a few of the company’s programme directors about the performance of their brands, the state of radio and the importance of digital channels. More FM was one of the few brands to increase its audience in the recent T2 radio survey. And network programme director Christian Boston says its dual strategy is paying dividends.
As part of a content partnership with MediaWorks, we’ve asked a few of the company’s programme directors about the performance of their brands, the state of radio and the importance of digital channels. And the newest kid on the block, Magic, has got off to a good start, attracting a good number of loaded oldies in its first few months and performing well in the regions. We talked to Ian Avery about the birth of the new brand.
As part of a content partnership with MediaWorks, we’ve asked a few of the company’s programme directors about the performance of their brands, the state of radio and the importance of digital channels. And while The Edge dropped listeners in the latest survey, just like most of the other stations, it still has the biggest audience in all the land and it’s betting big on the multiplatform approach. We had a yarn with Rodger Clamp about how it all comes together.
As part of a content partnership with MediaWorks, we’ve asked a few of the company’s programme directors about the performance of their brands, the state of radio and the importance of digital channels. And, despite a dearth of good, new rock music and the encroaching mainstream appeal of hip hop and electronic music, The Rock is still luring plenty of listeners, says Brad King.
As part of a content partnership with MediaWorks, we’ve asked a few of the company’s programme directors about the performance of their brands, the state of radio and the importance of digital channels. And the rising tide of hip hop and RnB in popular culture is lifting the Mai FM boat along with it and attracting a big, young audience around the nation, says Philip Bell.