Stories about TVNZ published on StopPress – Aotearoa/New Zealand’s daily news site for the advertising and marketing industry.
Online streams are driving up viewership of the America’s Cup as big numbers view the racing. On 8 September the number of streams was 13,818, but by the beginning of this week they’d exceeded 166,000.
The season debut of New Zealand’s Got Talent got a less rapturous audience reception, with the 90 minute episode getting an average audience of 611,100 for those aged five plus watching live and played back on the same day, although consolidated Nielsen data wasn’t yet available.
Mobile devices now account for more than a third of TVNZ’s Ondemand service video streams and are a key part of the growth in video views.
There were plenty of Kiwi companies who were celebrated for their stellar efforts at the TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards last week (you can check all the winners out here and read the in-depth stories of how they did it in the latest edition of NZ Marketing). And while we know everyone in this industry gets excited about a good dose of cross-organisational stakeholder management, you’re also quite fond of spending hours of work time looking at glamour shots from events. So fill your boots.
More than 700 members of the marcomms fraternity ventured to the Langham last night to celebrate the country’s best marketing ideas, strategy and execution, listen to Te Radar take the piss out of the industry and try to do a bit of business. And Griffin’s came away with the major gong for the hugely successful re-introduction of Choco-ade biscuits to Kiwi shelves.
TVNZ has welcomed another brand to the stage of New Zealand’s Got Talent, with Tip Top joining primary sponsor Toyota as a commercial production partner for this year’s series.
TVNZ has released its first report on the impact on advertisers of viewers ‘timeshifting’ television, and the results are surprisingly positive.
When TVNZ nabbed the rights to Home and Away from MediaWorks early last month, it had to find a way to let people know that Alf Stewart’s stalwart old mug would be switching channels.
TVNZ will launch its OnDemand app for Samsung Galaxy devices on Friday 23 August.
Sky and TVNZ’s joint pay-TV venture Igloo was announced in late 2011. Its first ads were created by Sugar & Partners and now Brandspank, which has taken over as Igloo’s agency for all marketing communications, has launched a new mockumentary-style TVC campaign that aims to emphasise the flexibility and control the product and its services offer.
Cadbury’s dreams, Regina’s first world problems and TVNZ’s draining of the talent pool make the playoffs.
The good cutlery is being shined, the wait staff are being put through a rigorous training regime and the country’s top marketers are getting out their lint rollers in preparation for the TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards at The Langham on 29 August. Tickets have been selling like hotcakes (or, to bring that phrase into the modern era, like iPhones) and there are only a few seats remaining before we put up the ‘full’ sign. So if you want to secure your spot, click here to get yourself a ticket.
Apparently New Zealand hasn’t run out of talent just yet, because not long after MediaWorks’ big talent show wound up, TVNZ’s big talent show gets set to start.
Carin Hercock swaps APN for Nielsen, the Red Bulletin takes a new approach, Sim Ahmed and Simon Pound join start-up Vend HQ, Damien Shatford signs with the Sweet Shop, Republik gets some Aussie biz, Big Mobile gets bigger, Rose Matafeo changes channels, Stefan Korn takes Creative HQ reins and APN Outdoor heads to Broadway.
TVNZ is scrapping TVNZ U, just over two years after first launching the youth-centric channel.
TV3 is replacing its 5:30pm staple Home and Away with Jamie Oliver’s 15 Minute Meals cooking show.
The first instalment of TVNZ’s Future Now series, which aims to showcase some of the company’s big broadcasting brains, Dominic Corry interviewed head of digital Tom Cotter to find out how technology was changing the face of TV. And next on the list is Andrew Shaw, the straight-shooting general manager of commissioning, production and acquisitions, who waxes lyrical about TV content trends and the reinvestment in high concept, cinematic drama series in the US.
Fizzy orange vitamin manufacturer Berocca is taking a rather unique approach to mobile advertising by targeting an underutilised feature of the iPhone (at least by advertisers) – the Calendar App.
According to the latest Paymark figures, DIY action as a result of the buoyant Auckland housing market and the Christchurch rebuild have helped boost overall year on year retail spending in New Zealand by 4.3 percent. And there’s also been a boost in the number of TV shows aiming to tap into this domestic fever, with Mitre 10 Dream Home returning to TV2’s screens last week after a four year hiatus and Aussie powerhouse House Rules starting on TV3 last night. But it’s the homegrown effort that’s so far luring the most Kiwi DIY lovers.
TVNZ’s latest campaign for One News asks New Zealanders what it means to “stay ahead”.
TV3 has lost the right to broadcast Aussie beach side soap opera Home and Away, a staple of its evening broadcast offering.
Since 2009 three dresses made from Kleenex Cottonelle toilet paper have been chosen by judges to walk the runways at New Zealand Fashion Week. And three more designs have made the finals in this year’s competition, although this time the stage isn’t a fashion catwalk, it’s a documentary-style series of television commercials and the pages of Next magazine.
Cannes Lions? Pffff. The TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards are the ones they’ll mention in your eulogy. And after much scratching of chins/stroking of beards among the judges, the finalists have been announced.
The Online Media Standards Authority (OMSA) is open for complaints from next Monday (1 July). Says the Law Commission’s single regulatory body recommendation will take too long.
Who’s it for: TVNZ by in-house agency Blacksand Why we like it: It’s just a little bit odd and quirky, much like the show it’s trying…
There’s been plenty of ink dedicated to Seven Sharp over the past few months—a bit too much in the opinion of TVNZ chief executive Kevin Kenrick. But far from free-falling, the more informal, magazine-style current affairs show has stabilised to an average audience of around 375,000 viewers. And, in an effort to get more New Zealanders to give the show a go, it has launched a new campaign via its inhouse agency Blacksand.
Beer drinkers who want to take a step towards becoming beer connoisseurs can now look forward to Lion’s latest content marketing campaign on TVNZ.
Mitre 10 Dream Home returns to Kiwi screens on 2 July at 7.30pm after a few year hiatus. And, along with the naming rights sponsor, TVNZ has signed up a host of other commercial partners who will spruik their wares in the TV2 show, including ASB, EECA Energywise and plenty more.
Inside most major TV networks there exists an often unrecognised group responsible for developing show promos, design collateral and marketing campaigns that aim to get viewers excited about the content. And these teams were rewarded recently in the second Promax New Zealand awards.
