Parnell-based digital content creation company The Digital Arm has launched the 180° Colour Cam – a rig of 18 DSLR cameras all taking a photo in the same split second to render a seven-second video showing a moment in time, captured in 180°.
Swear words + kids connects for Contact
JWT Auckland’s new campaign for power company Contact Energy brings to the screen the complexities of home life, with doses of humour, and illustrates the brand’s vision to help New Zealanders live more comfortably with energy.
Facebook launches new-look Atlas
Facebook has relaunched Atlas, the ad platform it bought off Microsoft, and now picked up globally by Omnicom. Atlas gives advertisers one place to create, buy, measure and optimise digital campaigns. It enables real-world, people-based impact across multiple devices (not just desktop) and the entire internet, on a massive scale.
ecostore’s sweet solution to plastic bottles
Despite having access to two of the most creative agencies in town – Special and Open – ecostore (no creative slouch itself, obviously) has gone in-house to market its new plastic bottles, made from sugarcane.
Shred letter day
The Bank of New Zealand and Colenso BBDO have installed a glass-walled house filled with $6 million of shredded bank notes in Aotea Square to highlight the amount of home loan interest being wasted by New Zealand homeowners.
Aisles of smiles – Colenso and New World do something for netball
New World is a huge supporter of New Zealand netball and main sponsor of the Silver Ferns. They’d do anything for netball – or perhaps more accurately, almost anything, as demonstrated in this charming new TVC out of Colenso BBDO.
Ford salutes our NZ Black fans
JWT has produced a new spot to leverage Ford New Zealand’s sponsorships of the All Blacks, BlackCaps and BlackSticks by celebrating the people who make our sporting success possible – the supporters.
Five films in one hour
One extreme athlete takes on five spectacular adventures in one hour in the new 5X1NZ web film for Tourism NZ, created by Whybin\TBWA Sydney.
Rad client, and a song from Wayne’s World
Foodstuffs and Colenso BBDO have introduced quirky new characters in latest New World campaign instalment. Last year, New World introduced their Fresh Experts with a suite of glossy infomercials, complete with awkward customer testimonials and flashbacks.
Carl’s Jr – the banned Paris Hilton ad
Yet another Carl’s Jr raunchy television ad featuring Paris Hilton has been banned in NZ by the Commercial Approvals Bureau – and thanks to the freedoms offered by the Internet, sites like this can screen it (above).
