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Better Futures 2021
New research reveals New Zealanders are anxious about the cost of living and housing availability in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Air New Zealand takes out November Colmar Brunton Ad Impact Award
After what has been a challenging year for the tourism industry, Air New Zealand’s latest ad shows their determination to stay afloat and win the hearts of their consumers.
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Animals Like Us takes out October Colmar Brunton Ad Impact Award
You might have heard that dogs and their owners can sometimes resemble one another, and with this ad you’d be right. Animals Like Us have rightfully…
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Maximise your advertising effectiveness
In recent years New Zealand has seen a revival in advertising within the FMCG sector.  In part, this has been fuelled by the thinking of Byron Sharp who has shown the importance of increasing ‘mental availability’ to drive growth.  
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Corporate Reputation 2020
Air New Zealand has continued its six-year reign at the top of Colmar Brunton’s Corporate Reputation Index 2020. TVNZ has moved up one place from last year to second with Pak’n Save coming in third.
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Better Futures 2020
Our 2020 Better Futures Report provides key insights into consumer perspectives on sustainability and the social and environmental issues that are important to Kiwis.
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Is your advertising striking the right chord with consumers?
Music is a powerful tool in advertising with its history going back to the era of the travelling salesman. Its role as a vehicle for capturing attention in a busy media landscape, establishing brand associations and invoking meaning about the product.
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Brands Kiwis Love 2019
Since 2012 we have asked 1,000 New Zealanders which brands Kiwis love – Whittaker’s again takes the top spot being the most loved brand. Over the last year, Whittaker’s have been extremely busy with several initiatives driving love for their brand.
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Kantar give STEM students a taste of the business world
We were delighted to answer the call for help from Hobsonville Secondary School who wanted to bring the world of business into their integrated business studies and math class. Enter a busload of teenagers to our Sale St offices where they were introduced to the mysterious world of market and sensory research.
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What is Big Data?
What is big data? The first step to understanding the potential of big data is to sidestep the technical descriptions of what it is and realise that big data is a term can be applied to any broad dataset.
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