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  • Get Smart about... election ad spend vs public trust

  • Re-upped for Halloween: The man behind the Rocky Horror midnight screenings

  • Jump to it! October’s The Jump column just dropped

  • Courtney Dow’s recipe for keeping KFC relevant

  • We made 34 covers... which one have you got?

  • Agency founders who defied the odds

  • Last days to catch Together’s September Month in Media round-up

  • Golden advice from Aotearoa’s agency founders

  • Why we need the human touch in the age of AI

How ‘intelligent disobedience’ gives Spark Foundry a competitive edge
OneMusic New Zealand: Do you have a sound retail strategy?

YouTube NZ Marketing Awards winners 2026

Wendy Rayner’s Marketing Hall of Fame acceptance speech

2026 YouTube NZ Marketing Awards celebrate every angle

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YouTube NZ Marketing Awards winners list 2026

Marketing Hall of Fame winner 2026: Wendy Rayner

Marketer of the Year winner 2026: Sean Wiggans

Marketer of the Future winner 2026: Emi Cross

Marketing Team of the Year winner 2026: Animates

Brand of the Year winner 2026: Trade Me Property

Supreme Marketing Excellence Award winner 2026: Samsung New Zealand

Best Overall Marketing Campaign Award winner 2026: Westpac New Zealand

Excellence in AI Innovation in Marketing winner 2026: 2degrees

Excellence in B2B Marketing Strategy winner 2026: ASB

Excellence in Brand Transformation Strategy winner 2026: AMI Insurance

Excellence in Consumer Products & Services Strategy winner 2026: Stihl

Excellence in Customer & Data-Led Growth winner 2026: Trade Me

Excellence in Fast Moving Consumer Goods Strategy winner 2026: Lactalis-Mainland Dairy

Excellence in Healthcare/Beauty Marketing Strategy winner 2026: Zuru Group

Excellence in Marketing Communication Strategy winner 2026: Lion NZ

Excellence in MarTech Strategy winner 2026: Trade Me

Excellence in New Brand Development winner 2026: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

Excellence in Not-for-Profit Marketing Strategy winner 2026: Greyhounds as Pets

Excellence in Sponsorship Strategy winner 2026: ANZ New Zealand

Excellence in Travel/Leisure & Entertainment Marketing Strategy winner 2026: Sixt New Zealand

Excellence in Utilities/Communications Marketing Strategy winner 2026: 2degrees

Best B2B Marketing Campaign winner 2026: OfficeMax

Best Data-Driven Marketing Campaign winner 2026: NZ Post

Best In-House Marketing Campaign winner 2026: Ecostore

Best Marketing on a Shoestring Budget Campaign winner 2026: Auckland Transport

Best Public Sector/Government Marketing Campaign winner 2026: Tourism New Zealand

Best Retail & eCommerce Marketing Campaign winner 2026: KFC New Zealand

Best Use of Video Marketing Campaign winner 2026: Auckland Transport

Industry insights

Ditch cookie cutter media strategies and choose creativity

March 18, 2026July 30, 2026

Baking gingerbread with her four-year-old who asked “why?” got Kyra Lyden of Spark Foundry NZ thinking about media strategies and creativity.

The ‘trustfluence’ era

February 22, 2026February 27, 2026

Procurement rules change is a boost for indies

January 27, 2026March 19, 2026

Marketing

Three famous logo redesign fails… and a great local success 

June 3, 2025June 4, 2025

Logo redesign can be controversial, but it’s rare for brands to reverse course. Here are three prominent rebrands that went horribly wrong, and a Kiwi hit.

Meet Liz Wright: the new digital face of Skinny

March 7, 2025April 23, 2026

Everyone must go Tourism NZ campaign is no 100% Pure… But this might just work

February 26, 2025June 3, 2025

Meet the founders

Meet the founder: Smokeylemon

Meet the founders: MintHC

Meet the founders: KZN Digital

Meet the founder: Contagion

Meet the founder: Gecko Marketing

Meet the founder: FizzyPop

Meet the founder: numero

Meet the founder: Bad Magic

Meet the founder: Saypient Limited

Meet the founder: Remade

Meet the founder: Matter Intelligence

Meet the founder: 4am Partners Limited

Meet the founder: Blutui

Meet the founder: Utility

Meet the founder: King St

Meet the founder: Elevate Consultancy

Meet the founder: Stitch

Meet the founder: Verve

Meet the founder: Momentum

Meet the founder: Chemistry

Meet the founder: Little Village Creative

Meet the founder: Studio Moda

Meet the founder: Convergence

Meet the founder: Anthem

Media

September’s month in media

September 30, 2025July 2, 2026

Together brings you the Month in Media. September 2025 saw major moves in agentic payments, positive signs for local print and big steps in media measurement.

‘Obsess over the comments,’ says Duolingo social media guru Zaria Parvez

August 21, 2025October 1, 2025

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google logos

Are we marketing ourselves into a digital corner? 

August 12, 2025August 13, 2025

Advertising

Cookie-less and confident: The evolving role of television commercials in New Zealand

May 1, 2024April 23, 2024

Every three months, TRA and ThinkTV look into everyone’s favourite TV commercials and their effectiveness.

Charm by name, charming by nature

May 1, 2024April 30, 2024

Behind the scenes: Cracking the effectiveness code

April 30, 2024December 17, 2025

From our partners

Get Smart October 2026: Election ad spend vs delivering public trust

The Jump October 2026: Wrap season, loyalty and Digger

How ‘intelligent disobedience’ gives Spark Foundry a competitive edge

September 2026 month in media

Insight Creative CEO on leading the agency through uncertainty

The Jump September 2026: Creators, Cannes and CRM

Let’s talk about feelings, and why marketers should care

The next chapter for Quantum Jump

A new equilibrium for the media landscape

Deep dive

Can brand and performance marketing be friends?

October 1, 2024October 16, 2025

To end the debate, TikTok and Tracksuit came together to prove that brand marketing and performance marketing can indeed, be friends.

Brat summer; is it hot or not?

August 26, 2024October 16, 2025

Driving hotter sales over summer

July 1, 2024October 1, 2026

Transforming New Zealand SMEs for global markets – Milk & BLUNT

April 15, 2024October 1, 2026

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