YouTube vids are soooo passe. Interactive ‘pick a path’ YouTube vids, like the recent one from Hell Pizza, are all the rage. But this one from Tippex is one of the best efforts we’ve seen. And, as it offers you the opportunity to write something to make a hunter do anything to a bear (well, almost anything: it couldn’t handle lambast, operate on or tackle), it’s way more interactive than most. Continue reading »
Andrew Holt, currently a group account director at Colenso BBDO, will be shifting south, moving up the executive chain and battling the breeze after being appointed as managing director of Clemenger BBDO in Wellington. Continue reading »
Pull up an ear as we attempt to make all your marketing dreams come true with news of account wins, new hires, newish agencies, old departures, big rebrands, Taika Waititi, Air New Zealand, wallpaper, beer and giant balls. Continue reading »
The finalists have been announced for the 2010 Best Awards. And, from cool album covers to modern buildings, from striking packaging to branding and identity, it’s a who’s who and what’s what of New Zealand’s design scene. Continue reading »
It’s been a good couple of days for Colenso: it’s well and truly leading the pack with its EFFIE shortlistings and now BBDO has been named the YoungGuns Network of the Decade by YoungGuns International on account of the vast array of metal the network has won since the awards were founded ten years ago. Continue reading »
The Radio Bureau’s August ORCA winners have been announced and DDB has taken its second gong of the year, with Joe Hawkins and Dave Brady, who were were finalists in the 2009 Grande ORCAs for the National Foundation for the Deaf ads, getting the nod for their self-referential Lion Nathan – Stella Artois Légère campaign.
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Stuff.co.nz dominated the digital categories at this year’s Qantas Media Awards and it appears as though the advertisers have responded, with Fairfax Media claiming it has “significantly outperformed the market” in terms of its display advertising revenue, “almost doubling” the 38 percent increase achieved by the market since last quarter. But there are a few Fairfax figures that aren’t quite so forthcoming. Continue reading »
The EFFIEs aren’t usually seen as the most glamorous or creative of the CAANZ events (as evidenced by the historic victory of Farmer’s Red Dot Specials a few years back). But, in terms of what advertising is actually meant to do, it should really be deemed the most important. And Colenso BBDO, DraftFCB and Barnes, Catmur & Friends have come through the first two rounds of judging as the country’s three most effective agencies for 2010. Continue reading »
Despite anecdotal evidence that suggests all banks are sneaky, recent actual research from the June 2010 Roy Morgan New Zealand Banking Customer Satisfaction Survey has revealed positive shifts in the overall satisfaction levels for most of the major banks, with TSB retaining its position at the top of the satisfaction pile, but Kiwibank is on its tail. Continue reading »
Speaking at the Inbound Tour Operators’ Council (ITOC) annual conference in Blenheim recently, Doug Chapman, executive director of client services at specialist digital agency Amnesia Razorfish, told delegates marketing was in the midst of a revolution thanks to the internet. And, with a raft of new technologies and hundreds of new social sites to take New Zealand to a travel-hungry world, it is a revolution Tourism New Zealand is well-positioned to take advantage of to reach potential travellers in a cost-effective way. Continue reading »
Show your wine-related punmanship, win some arty wine Continue reading »
Invoke spirit of world’s most interesting dad, win Chivas Regal delights Continue reading »
Who’s it for: Campaign for Action on Family Violence by DraftFCB
Why we like it: DraftFCB has been staking a serious claim for the title of social change specialists in recent times (and in very recent times it has apparently started production on what has been called the mother of all shoots for its first National Bank TVC). And the two new spots for the Campaign for Action on Family Violence, which liken friends and family who don’t speak up about family violence to cardboard cut-outs, affirms that position. It’s a powerful spot for the ‘It’s Not Okay’ campaign and, as with its hugely successful depression work with John Kirwan, it’s about bringing issues that are normally hidden out into the open.
Lionel Richie remixes himself for (and possibly sells his soul to) Walkers crisps.
Jack Black pans Orange in a spoof Gulliver’s Travels trailer for Orange.
Bud Light’s take on the consequences of the swear jar.
Arcade Fire, Chris Milk and Google’s amazing interactive music video experiment (well worth downloading Chrome to experience it properly); get some business inspiration with this start-up idea generator; the perfect father’s day gift; the Chinese approach to public transport and the memory of Diana; 25-year-old forex wunderkind John Key profiled on Close-Up back in 1987; and one for the ‘pedantophiles’, a blog that details the use of unnecessary quotation marks.
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