Sponsors

TVNZ is New Zealand’s leading media company, with unequalled reach through their products including New Zealand’s highest rating television channels TV ONE and TV2, award winning news site tvnz.co.nz, a leading Ondemand service, plus innovative digital channels U, TVNZ Heartland, TVNZ 7, and TVNZ Kidzone24. All delivered across a comprehensive range of devices including iPhone, iPad, PS3 and mobile.

TVNZ’s involvement with the marketing awards goes back several years and is one of many industry initiatives they support to foster a vibrant marketing and communications industry.

Fairfax Media is the largest integrated metropolitan, rural and regional magazine and digital media company in Australasia, with publications and websites throughout New Zealand and Australia. The company has established itself as an innovative, integrated multi-media business with strong brands across multiple platforms including newspapers, magazines and digital. Fairfax Media has two national, nine daily and more than 60 community newspapers; as well as 25+ magazines and market leading website stuff.co.nz in New Zealand.

Colmar Brunton was started in 1981 by two Kiwis with a passion for taking consumer research ‘from the backroom into the boardroom’. It is now New Zealand's best known and most trusted market research company, with offices in Auckland and Wellington, and employs more than 100 research and business consultants. Colmar Brunton is part of the global Millward Brown network covering more than 51 countries around the world; and Kantar, WPP's insight, information and consultancy group.

BrandWorld create non-traditional advertising solutions that have been proven to work for many of the world’s biggest brands. They’re all about making mass media (especially TV and digital platforms) more effective and affordable for marketers, and making marketing content more useful and relevant for consumers. BrandWorld specialise in creating advertising formats and branded content solutions, and also create client specific information media vehicles.

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is the New Zealand Government’s national economic development agency. New Zealand Trade & Enterprise work to stimulate New Zealand’s economic growth by helping to boost export earnings, strengthen regional economies, and deliver economic development assistance to industries and individual businesses. They use their knowledge of and contacts in overseas markets to connect New Zealand businesses with trade and investment opportunities internationally.

Mailshop is New Zealand’s premium direct mail house provider and one of the largest specialised DM mail houses and digital print providers nationwide. As part of the Clemenger Group, they also have access to the support and resources of one of the largest communications and marketing organisations in Australasia. Mailshop deliver an end-to-end service borne of experience and youthful enthusiasm, and adopt a partnership-based approach with their clients – working together to develop procedures tailor-made to their requirements.

Morton Estate Wines exemplify the best winemaking techniques from the old and new worlds. Selecting the finest winemaking technology and techniques creates striking new styles and flavours and makes an important impact on expectations. The company takes the boutique winery approach to winemaking by controlling the entire winemaking process - from grafting its own cuttings, developing its own vineyards and viticultural techniques, and investing in the best technology possible.

Boston Digital has a proven track record for providing exceptional print-production, installation, application and removal on a nationwide basis.

Boston Digital believe that providing excellence in print solutions relies on two pillars of strength; their processes and their people. Robust business processes ensure best quality print management from concept to completion; while proven workflow systems, infrastructure and technology mean the capability and capacity to deliver high quality services, tight turn-around times and value for money.

&some is the engagement agency. What does that mean? Well, it’s an advertising agency. And a digital agency. And an ideas agency. And then some.

Because the advertising and marketing landscape has changed forever, &some communicates however and wherever brands require. It produces high-quality engagement experiences across any and all media channels. &some keeps one finger firmly on the pulse of new technologies and developments (and creative ways of using them to reach customers).

News Works NZ is the industry body for newspapers in New Zealand. We take a strong stand for the powerful brands that are newspapers in this country – mastheads with a 150 year history of trust, connection, heritage and relevance. New Works champions the industry as a whole, encompassing newspapers and their digital platforms, and promotes the cause of newspapers – for both consumers and advertising clients.

News Works provide free, current and unbiased advice and information on newspapers and newspaper advertising. Our services include sales support, industry information, marketing and promotions. In addition we offer advice and useful tools to help plan and execute print campaigns into all daily and Sunday newspapers in New Zealand.

The Marketing Association (MA) is the hub of New Zealand's marketing industry, the heart of our marketing community and a centre of excellence for all things marketing.

They are the only industry body in New Zealand dedicated to 'marketing' with a 39 year history (pre 2005 as the DMA). They have an established member base of approximately 5,600 and we they regularly engage with over 9,000 business and marketing professionals each year. They aim to educate, inspire and advise our community of savvy marketing and business professionals, helping them, and the organisations they represent, to invest wisely in marketing activities, technologies and resources so that they can continue to make a positive contribution to the New Zealand economy.

NZ Marketing is one of the country’s most venerable and trusted business magazines which targets those working in marketing, advertising and media – the communications professionals who, combined, specify over $2 billion per annum in marketing spend in New Zealand.

Published bi-annually (6x per year) it delivers essential marketing intelligence and best practice for marketers and their advertising and media agency partners in a visually appealing, easy-to-read, contemporary style.

Journalistic in approach the magazine covers marketing and communications disciplines in the wider sense, with a focus on facts, people, case studies and data.

Its highly practical editorial stance and in-depth examination of the latest marketing trends has earned the magazine a reputation for contributing to the lifting of marketing standards in New Zealand, making it required reading for marketers in this country.