Content marketing company BrandWorld has joined forces with ethnic media specialist Niche Media to offer a one-stop branded content shop for clients wishing to reach a broad audience.
The move is joint venture – not a merger. The main focus of the partners is to participate in joint pitches.
“78% of Chinese people consume half or more than half of their media in Chinese, says BrandWorld business manager Cameron Harper.
“In fact, for all the ethnicities Niche Media surveyed, results are similar, with more than 50% preferring to consume media produced in their own languages.”
New Zealand has and is experiencing a huge cultural shift and with that media consumption has changed enormously, he says.
“There’s far more choice for ethnic communities today. Companies can’t just put up a message on our main TV channels or their own online offerings and expect it to reach everyone they need it to. Just as different age and socio demographic groups consume media differently, so do different ethnic groups.”
In more than a decade Niche Media has built up a level of knowledge about ethnic media use both here and overseas that is unrivalled, says Harper.
“Currently we’re involved in at least two significant pitches with Niche Media where the clients want to use BrandWorld’s knowledge of branded content and visual storytelling to engage with all New Zealanders, both those who live here and those who may be thinking of coming here.”
According to the 2013 census, the combined ethnic and Maori populations of New Zealand currently make up 34% of the population; increasing to 46% in Auckland. The fastest growing populations are Pacific (2.4%) and Asian (3.4%).
“Over 83,000 new immigrants have arrived from the Pacific, Asia and the Middle East and Africa in the last two years, most without any knowledge of New Zealand brands, but needing to purchase a whole range of products from cars and houses to food, furniture and electronics,” Harper said.
Niche Media managing director Marty Pouwels said: “So it’s a very powerful, high growth and relatively untapped market.
“What our research shows that mainstream media options simply aren’t effective if companies want to reach New Zealand’s growing minority populations.
“We’re delighted to be joining forces with BrandWorld. Their client list and spread of clients is unparalleled and their knowledge about how to make branded content that really resonates with consumers is well known. Now we can help them take that knowledge and distribute it effectively among the country’s growing ethnic communities to maximise sales for their clients.”
These communities are the fastest growing in New Zealand, says Pouwels. “They are driving the New Zealand economy and they are delivering growth in exports faster than any other groups in New Zealand. Any company that does not have an ethnic marketing strategy is going backwards by two plane loads a week.”
To discuss the j/v, the contacts are …
- Cameron Harper: cameron@brandworld.co.nz or 021 464 611
- Marty Pouwels: marty@nichemedia.co.nz or 021 976 017
- Lesley Springall: lesley@brandworld.co.nz or 027 445 3543
In their own words …
About BrandWorld
BrandWorld has become a world leader in content marketing and advertising through its masthead formats Family Health Diary, Eating Well and Discover as well as a multitude of bespoke offerings including The Mix, Made-to-Match and Food in a Minute. Many of BrandWorld’s products, which are designed to showcase a multitude of different brands, have boosted products sales for clients by more than 200%. BrandWorld prides itself on being innovative and offering truly effective solutions to clients by combining programme-making skills with real research showing what clients’ consumers want. The company was the first New Zealand advertising company to offer clients cost effective, fixed cost packages; the first to aggregate multiple clients in a common advertising format; and the first company to retain ownership of its own advertising “brands.” Its offerings have won countless marketing awards for clients. For more information visit www.brandworld.co.nz.
About Niche Media
Niche Media is a full service communications agency 100% focused on ethnic communities. A pioneer in the field of multicultural marketing, Niche Media has been setting best practices in ethnic marketing for over a decade. It has offices across New Zealand, Shanghai, Mumbai and Seoul, as well as partner organisations in Australia. It’s in the process of building a network of like-minded partners across the world. In 2013 it undertook a comprehensive review of ethnic media habits in New Zealand to gain a better handle on how the country’s minorities choose, use and consume the media here. For more information visit www.nichemedia.co.nz. As well as being the leading multicultural media service provider, Niche Media also helped establish and manages EMINZ, New Zealand’s Ethnic Media Information portal. Formed by a cooperative of ethnic media companies, the portal allows advertisers to coordinate their media offerings into the main ethnic communities: Chinese, Indian, Pacific Island, Korean and Filipino. www.eminz.co.nz.
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