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Samsung expands APAC team for ad-supported streaming TV
Samsung has made key leadership appointments across its TV services business as ad-supported TV viewing continues to rise.
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Campaigns
ThinkTV launches mixed media campaign to highlight ‘The TV Advertising Paradox’
ThinkTV has launched ‘The TV Advertising Paradox’ – a campaign highlighting the incredible reach and ROI of television advertising.
News
Digital TV spend is up, but revenues ‘don’t reflect reach’
The ASA’s 2024 turnover report shows a decline in TV revenue and continued growth in digital TV spending. But the report only tells half the story, says ThinkTV.
News
Engaging content and tasty meals: Flicks and Delivereasy renew partnership
Kiwi streaming and cinema guide Flicks has renewed its exclusive partnership with local delivery service Delivereasy – a match-made in heaven.
Campaigns
Break free and break better with KitKat and Queen
KitKat’s ad using Queen’s ‘I Want to Break Free’ to encourage people to take better breaks, recognising how difficult it is to switch off from a world demanding constant attention.
News
Tennis Australia launches FAST channel on Samsung TV Plus
Tennis Australia has launched a 24/7 free ad-supported streaming channel on Samsung TV Plus, during the Australian Open 2025.
News
Bravo New Zealand claims the title of top challenger network
Free-to-air TV channel Bravo New Zealand, known for its reality and true crime shows, is the number one challenger network for 2024, according to recent data from Nielsen.
News
Wool carpet maker uses AI to create a TVC for broadcast
Local wool carpet and rug maker Bremworth has made a TVC using AI as part of a planned $2 million-plus advertising campaign.
Opinion
Be like Rick Astley (and other sticky advice from reality TV queen Maz Farrelly)
Her reality TV shows have been watched 8 billion times, so Maz Farrelly knows a thing or two about engaging audiences.
News
ThinkTV: How New Zealand’s television collective is tracking nearly one year in
Nine months into Think TV, we ask chairman Glen Kyne to reflect on what New Zealand’s first television collective has achieved in the last year and what we can look forward to in 2019.
News
Top 10 television programmes 2018
News, sports and Hyundai Country Calendar remain at the top of New Zealanders’ television viewing schedules – but the Royal Wedding in May wasn’t far behind.
News
From junk to jewellery: Design Junkies search for second crop of designers
Design and craft based television show – Design Junkies – has been allocated it’s second lot of funding from TVNZ. The spend comes following a successful first series – produced by Warner Bros. NZ – which sees a diverse bunch of designers upcycle junk into coffee tables, photoshoot props, and various other installations. In light of the release, the show is currently on the hunt for the crop of next designers, makers and artists to feature on the next edition.
News
Māori TV head of news resigns after restructure plans
The head of News and Current Affairs at Māori Television has resigned, but the network says it has nothing to do with the proposed restructure.
Features
A New Zealand Original: Streaming services embrace in-house content
As online streaming services slowly replace broadcast television as the preferred way to watch TV, the ways in which content is developed are also changing. Streaming services are boasting ‘original’ content, with the banner, ‘Netflix Original’, becoming synonymous with edgy or ground-breaking content, created free from the bounds of traditional broadcast media. Now, slowly but surely, Lightbox is getting in the game.
News
Pernod Ricard challenges convention in ‘Church Road Journeys of Discovery’
Church Road Winery travels the country in a new series on TVNZ OnDemand – the first work by Raydar and 99 for Pernod Ricard since winning the account from Ogilvy late last year.
Partner articles
Are we seeing a resurgence of TV advertising?
Despite the ubiquitous nature of digital communications and millennials spreading their time across a range of screens, television remains a hugely valuable platform for delivering emotive content with the scale, impact and the effective frequency required to create meaningful business impact.
News
Aotearoa’s best honoured at the 2017 New Zealand Television Awards
The New Zealand Television Awards recognised excellence in local television programmes as well as individual achievement as it announced the 2017 winners last night at Auckland’s SkyCity Theatre.
Features
The Hot List winners: Television
The suspense is over as we run down the results of our 2017 Hot List where we direct our attention now to the best of the best from the silver screen.
News
The Block NZ revs up for a season six showdown
Renovation enthusiasts rejoice as MediaWorks launches the sixth season of The Block NZ with another colourful campaign.
News
Sky takes the best of sport from the field to an app
Sky has extended its offering to its Sky Sport customers, with a Sport Highlights app that allows them to keep up to date with the best of their favourite sport without tuning into the games.
News
Is Lorde taking a page out of Adele’s marketing playbook?
Like Adele, Lorde’s cryptic TV teaser was minimalist marketing at its finest, and all she really had to do was eat food in a car.
News
‘Timid, too late, disappointing’: industry experts respond to the Digital Convergence Bill
Media experts have expressed frustration at the fact that Broadcasting minister Amy Adams will keep restrictions on advertising over Easter Weekend in place under the proposed Digital Convergence Bill.
News
Why the Sky/Vodafone deal could hinge on sport content rights
Spark’s decision to narrow in on sport streaming rights in its opposition of the Sky/Vodafone merger was an interesting move, given that the telco no longer offers sport content as part of its SVOD offering. We look at why so much hinges on sport content.
News
Mark Weldon steps down
The MediaWorks board has announced the resignation of Mark Weldon from his position as chief executive.
News
What hiatus? Shortland Street fans stay hooked during the break
Over the last two years, TVNZ has invested significantly in large-scale campaigns to keep Shortland Street fans engaged with the show during the summer hiatus. And as was the case last year, the strategy has paid off with the latest campaign resulting in over 410,000 interactions. PLUS: Shortland Street fan dresses in black to mourn the passing of Dr Wendy Cooper.
News
Nielsen closes the door on specific TV ratings enquiries from journalists
Nielsen has confirmed to StopPress that it will no longer be fielding specific enquiries from journalists on the audience metrics of New Zealand television shows. Instead, the research company will provide a weekly top 20 breakdown of programmes for One, TV2, TV3, Four, Prime and Sky in the 5+ and 25-54 demographics.
News
Data Dump: Online overtakes television and newspapers, but radio still leads morning media
Roy Morgan has revealed that Kiwi media habits in the morning are shifting online, with a recent study showing that the proportion of New Zealanders accessing online media channels has surpassed those reading the newspaper or watching television. However, radio still remains comfortably at the top of the pile in terms of the preferred media channel, with 40.2 percent of Kiwis still tuning into the airwaves every day.
News
MediaWorks comes out on top as The Block beats MKR NZ
Cantabrians Brooke and Mitch took out the latest edition of the Block NZ Villa Wars selling their renovated property for $1,350,000 netting them a windfall of $290,000 but the big winners for The Block NZ Villa Wars were MediaWorks, which returned very high rating numbers for the Sunday evening finale.
News
TVCs of the Week: 10 November
A strong creative period across the industry sees Rebel Sport, Jaguar, Daikin, the Earthquake Commission and Skinny share a crowded podium this week.
News
Freeview broadens its service, offers access to on-demand
Far gone are the days where we got to the best point in our television show only to hear “cccsssshhhh” and see our screens produce an unnerving display of black and white fuzz as we frantically wrestled our bunny ear aerials into the most awkward and weird positions to get the picture back (only to have missed the best part). Luckily this hasn’t been a problem for a while, and our options for viewing television are always getting better, and today Freeview announced the launch of its new digital TV platform, FreeviewPlus, which allows Kiwis with the right technology to access on-demand video on new smart televisions.