Archive for September, 2009

Sweet new site for Sugar

New Zealand’s leading independent agency, Sugar, have a new site. Tight copy and a clean quick load time. Good eating of your own dogfood, guys.
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While on the subject of agencies, there have been a few earthquakes in Adland recently. A lot of very big pitches underway and a bunch of change, driven in part by cost-savings, increased expectations of accountability and a big decline in TV revenue. Changes with TVNZ, Westpac (Retail), Nokia (media), ALAC, TV3, etc are creating structural changes in the shape of the local industry and there is still a lot of dust to settle. And finally, good on Jason Wells for finally getting the top Wellington job at Y&R. His leadership and strategic thinking is top notch.

New Zealand’s Favourite Home Page

One of the ad team at Trade Me flicked me an interesting graph this morning. A daily breakdown of the August traffic to New Zealand’s largest home page, Trade Me, and runner up, YahooXtra as independently measured by Nielsen Online from tags placed on our pages.

Trade Me is New Zealand's favourite home page (August 2009)

Trade Me is New Zealand's favourite home page (August 2009)

I was surprised at the low weekend rating of YahooXtra; don’t people check their xtra mail accounts in the weekend? You would want a big discount if you advertised on their Saturday. Interestingly, Stuff.co.nz is now New Zealand’s third largest website and New Zealand’s most popular news and entertainment site, bigger than nzherald.co.nz.


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