Deep Dive

NZ Marketing looks at what it means to be a design-led brand and how marketers can leverage design-thinking to bolster their digital efforts.

Significant shakeups in media ownership in recent months point to the struggles the industry faces as funding challenges continue to plague owners. We ask, is advertising the future and how are companies approaching a mixed-funding model in the face of consolidation and digitisation.

Companies closing, staff being made redundant, employees taking pay cuts, this is the Covid-19 landscape. Graham Medcalf takes a look into what an economic downturn means for the marketing industry and what marketers need to do to adjust to the new reality.

Looking to give fresh perspective and inspiration to your marketing team? Mollie Edwards identifies four areas marketing managers need to target in order to reach a level of high-performance marketing within their teams.

Generation Z, or Gen Z, now around college-leaving age, will over the next few years increase their spending power as they enter the job market. But their priorities, perspectives and interests aren’t the same as those of the Millennials that came before them, meaning brands need to be mindful of how they engage with this generation.

A look into what’s shaping the latest augmented reality trends in New Zealand, and how these are changing the way marketers reach their customers.

With marketers turning more to the most reliable source of information, customer data we ask, what is data-driven marketing and why it’s so important?

In the era of fake news and a tsunami of content, it is more important than ever to have third-party endorsement, but paid content is having the effect of making some more educated consumers less trusting of media and more wary of what is real news. Graham Medcalf takes a look.

Courtney Devereux explores the ethics of marketing in a Lockdown, and gets a gauge for how our moral compasses may have shifted when it comes to advertising in this new Covid-19 reality.