What We Do

We help New Zealand’s most ambitious companies bridge the gap between brands and people. We believe wholeheartedly in the potential to make lasting emotional connections, injecting the human back into digital and leveraging the power of the big idea.

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Our Ethos

Be Curious

Curiosity is at the heart of great creative. Curiosity about brands, curiosity about products and curiosity about people. All successful projects start from a place of understanding. When we work together we will start with a sound brief, our client service team will often write the brief back to you (called a “reverse brief”) for you to sign off. If the project calls for it, we will engage research wherever possible to better understand your audience and their brand perceptions.

Be Endearing

Endearing is about people. When we talk about “humanistic” creative, it’s because we want to create connections that are deeper than simple brand messaging. Advertising and branding can start a conversation, but great creative keeps a conversation going. It reaches consumers on an emotionally engaging level and invites them to engage. Often when we’re discussing creative solutions with you, we’ll talk about how your audience can respond and stay involved in a longer conversation with your brand.

Be Honest

Honesty in our messaging, honest about our work. We like to be honest with you, if something is going to take longer or cost more than you expect, we try to be upfront about that so we can set reasonable expectations together. Advertising agencies talk about universal truths. There’s an old adage, “advertising will only make a bad product fail faster”, we like to think of it this way, tell your audience the truth about your product. Tell them the truth about why they should do or act in the way you want them to, tell them that interesting and truthful thing that sets your message apart from the rest.

Our Ethos

WHAT WE DO

Strategy

Audience Research  
Brand Strategy  
Digital Strategy  
Comms Strategy  
Consumer Journey  

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Creative

Creative Ideation  
Art Direction  
Copywriting  
Brand Identity Design  
Environmental Design  
Advertising Design  

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Media

Media Strategy  
Planning and Buying  
Audience Modelling  
Out-Of-Home  
Television  
Programmatic Digital

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Digital

UI/UX Design  
Web Development  
Digital Marketing  
SEO & Search  
Social Media Management  
CRM & Automation

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Our Process

The full service nature of our agency means we help clients with a lot of different things. Sometimes people come to us because they want to advertise some product or message, sometimes it’s for branding or web design, sometimes it’s social media and content. Whatever people come to us for, our process normally looks something like this.

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