A Kiwi news podcast aimed at the news avoidant has won Best New Audio Product/Feature at the International News Media Association (INMA) awards in London. Launched just over a year ago, Newsable delivers 20 minutes of relevant news content every morning, with vertical video, digital articles and breaking news ‘fast-casts’ rounding out its podcast brand. Aimed at 25-40 year olds, the show drops at 6am each weekday, delivering a mix of hard news, human interest, pop culture and exclusive interviews. Developed by Stuff Group and hosted by journalist Imogen Wells, the podcast and its accompanying ..read more

Bostock Brothers Organic Free Range Chicken is celebrating ten years in business with New Zealand’s biggest, chicken-themed cake at New World Victoria Park. The chook-shaped creation surprised supermarket shoppers, who were this morning able to ‘pluck’ a slice as they perused shelves for their weekly groceries in Auckland’s CBD. Since inception in 2014, founders and brothers, Ben and George Bostock are New Zealand’s only producer of organic free-range chicken, raising their flocks on retired apple orchards in Hawke’s Bay. The pair also have become synonymous with quirky campaigns that showcase ..read more

Almost four years since its management buyout from Australian owners, New Zealand’s Stuff Group has been awarded a global prize for business transformation at the International News Media Association (INMA) awards in London today. In an entry to INMA’s Best Innovation in Newsroom Transformation category titled “Consciously Uncoupling”, the separation of Stuff Ltd in 2023 into distinct businesses beat entries from major media groups including the UK’s The Times and Sunday Times and the Irish Independent. Separating Stuff’s large teams of multimedia journalists into two separate businesses: Stuf ..read more

New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) has won the Best Use of Print award at the 2024 International News Media Association (INMA) Global Media Awards in London. The award was given for NZME’s work on the Hawke’s Bay Today ‘Cyclone Gabrielle: Special Free Edition’. Last year, Cyclone Gabrielle hit Hawke’s Bay, resulting in the tragic loss of eight lives and leaving Napier isolated for an extended period. The award recognises NZME’s team of journalists, photographers, and distributors who, despite the challenges posed by Cyclone Gabrielle, produced and delivered 20,000 free copies of the 16 ..read more

South Island PR consultancy formerly known as Scope Media has rebranded as Scope Communications. The Wānaka-based award-winning marketing communications consultancy, which celebrates 11 years in business in June, unveiled its new look today. Scope Communications managing director Celia Crosbie says the move to replace the word ‘Media’ with ‘Communications’ in the brand name has been two years in the making. “As a team, we felt that ‘communications’ better reflected what we do. While our roots are proudly entrenched in journalism, our collective skillset spans across all methods of communicatio ..read more

Branding agency The Goat Farm, based on Auckland’s Karangahape Road, has completed a rebranding project with materials recovery company, WM New Zealand. The company was formerly known as Waste Management, but a strategic refocus for the business meant that the brand needed to move on, explains WM Marketing Manager Catherine Collins. “TGF took the brief and immersed themselves into our business, meeting our people, understanding our products and visiting our operational sites. They took care to really understand who we are and the direction we are heading in. “We are immensely proud of where th ..read more

AIA Vitality has partnered with TVNZ, in collaboration with AIA’s media agency Together and NZME, to launch mental wellbeing series The Upside. In this series, host Scotty Stevenson sits down with well-known New Zealanders for an insightful and inspiring conversation about mental wellbeing. Over six episodes, notable Kiwis including Sir Graham Henry, Jason Gunn, Dame Valerie Adams, Hayley Sproull, Detective Inspector Scott Beard and Awa Puna, will share powerful and unique stories about the struggles they’ve faced in their own lives, how they’ve overcome them, and what they do to protect their ..read more

With the entry deadline for the 2024 YouTube-NZ Marketing Awards fast approaching on Friday April 26 (extension deadline May 3), we catch up with Julie Chappell, Marketing Manager at Brother New Zealand on their big wins from last year and why the awards are so important for the marketing industry. What did you win? At the 2023 NZ Marketing Awards, Brother won Best B2B Marketing Campaign and Excellence in B2B Marketing Strategy. What was it about your entry that stood out? For me, it was the way we demonstrated the impact of the campaign on our business. Sales and market data showed how we ach ..read more

Integrated marketing and communications agency Bastion has appointed industry leader, Cheuk Chiang, as CEO for Australia and New Zealand. Chiang, whose career has been in creative, media, data and technology, will be responsible for driving business expansion and have operational and P&L responsibility across Bastion’s ANZ business. Bastion Group CEO Jack Watts says the appointment represents the latest major step in agency growth and continued success within Bastion. “We’ve been in business almost 15 years and it’s a thrill to bring in someone of Cheuk’s calibre to lead our business acros ..read more

Blutui, a digital delivery platform for advertising agencies, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Amir Mireskandari to its board. The addition of Mireskandari to the board is a strategic move aimed at leveraging his wealth of knowledge and leadership skills to drive Blutui’s continued growth and global influence. Mireskandari’s career spans over two decades, with previous roles at Ogilvy, M&C Saatchi Australia and Leo Burnett Australia. “We are thrilled to welcome Amir Mireskandari to our Blutui Board, his exceptional track record in delivering innovative solutions and driving opera ..read more