Facebook's role in the Christchurch terror attacks, and Mark Zuckerberg's placid response, brought with it widespread condemnation. Now the social media giant has finally responded to the public scrutiny by banning users from live streaming if they "violate our most serious policies" and invested $7.5 million in research to improve video analysis technology. Idealog asked local social media experts whether the world's most powerful company could have done more to prevent social media hate crimes.
Auckland agency Amplifier has been in the design and marketing game for 17 years. We caught up with director Sean O'Brien on the challenges they've overcome in order to stay on top of a rapidly evolving industry.
With an April full of public holidays and potential long weekends, the month was a big and busy month for advertising. But Countdown's own-brand campaign surpassed the competition to be named the Colmar Brunton Ad Impact Award winner for April.
Zavy and StopPress have worked together to create a scoreboard that compares how the top 25 traditional media advertising spenders in New Zealand have performed on social media over the past 30 days, updated in real time.
Following judging by 38 senior public relations and communications practitioners, the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ) has announced 25 finalists for the 2019 awards.
