Stuff Group reaches 3.4 mil Kiwis every month
Stuff Group is taking out the prize for having the biggest digital and print audience in the country. NZ House & Garden magazine reaches 374,000 readers each month, 29% ahead of its nearestcompetitor. New Zealand Gardener magazine reaches 245,000 Kiwis every month, the same numberas it did in the previous quarter while TV Guide retains the largest reach of the three at 335,000 Kiwisevery week. Stuff Brand Connections Managing Director Matt Headland says premium print content continues toattract large audiences even as they migrate to paid digital subscriptions. “Our commercial partners know the value of advertising and integrating into high-trust products with highly-engaging, quality local journalism, both in digital and print.
Source:Stuff
June 13, 2024 22:29 UTC
Celebrating life’s special moments with AA Life Insurance
Knowing full well the insurance territory is a serious one, AA Life Insurance has changed tack for its new campaign – choosing to celebrate life’s fun but precious moments instead. The campaign, launched with creative agency Quantum Jump, is flipping the common insurance territory on its head, choosing joy, over scaremongering. “We asked Quantum Jump to approach the category differently”, said Adelia Prayugo, AA Life Insurance Marketing Manager. Stitching these moments together allows the campaign to relish life’s joy. We’re focused on celebrating the small moments within the big ones.”With media planned by Rocket, the campaign is running across OOH, radio, YouTube, TikTok, native and display.
Source:Stuff
June 13, 2024 22:28 UTC
Premier Li visits as New Zealand cools on China
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon welcomed Premier Li Qiang to Wellington on Thursday for the first high-level visit from the Chinese government since 2017. The head of government was here to mark the tenth anniversary of New Zealand China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership which was signed by John Key in 2014. However, the relationship between China and New Zealand has cooled considerably since Luxon’s predecessor inked the agreement which even included military cooperation. Growth in the value of goods exported to China stalled in 2021 and dropped 8% in the year ended March. Premier Li agreed that it was important to expand trade and invited NZ to be a guest of honor at the China Import Expo in Shanghai this year.
Source:Stuff
June 13, 2024 18:42 UTC
Fitch ratings agency experts casting doubt on NZ's economic future
Follow the podcast onThe Fitch ratings agency is casting doubts on New Zealand's economic future. The agency is considering bringing down the nation's rating, amid concerns surrounding increased debt and low immigration flow. NZ Herald Business editor-at-large Liam Dann unpacks the implications of this news. LISTEN ABOVE
Source:New Zealand Herald
June 13, 2024 14:01 UTC
Papaya growth and health properties trial in Tairāwhiti
Negotiations have commenced for initiating a papaya cultivation project in Tairāwhiti, focusing on both the fruit and leaf's properties. Raymond Young, the CEO of Fuller Young International, has engaged with a local nursery to start Gisborne's inaugural commercial Carica papaya crop trial. The health benefits of papaya leaves and fruit are well-documented, with scientific research highlighting their bioactive compounds that possess anti-cancer, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-microbial properties. Fuller Young International, a Queenstown-based entity led by Young, will provide the "Wakatengu" cultivar seeds for the trial at Manutuke by Tai Kupenga Ltd. According to Trevor Mills, the local project manager, this trial represents a significant opportunity for establishing a commercial crop aimed at producing medical, nutraceutical, and high-value food products.
Source:New Zealand Herald
June 13, 2024 12:19 UTC
Family Court lawyer Brintyn Smith on being brutally bashed in Whangārei courthouse
The savage attack 15 months ago inside a lift at the Whangārei courthouse left family lawyer Brintyn Smith with multiple injuries, including a fractured sternum, nose and thyroid, extensive bruising to the face and a concussion. Without warning Aydon launched himself at Smith, punching him in the face and knocking him backwards into the lift. Smith remembers waking on the floor of the lift, yelling for help and being in real fear for his life. Initially, he didn't see a return to Family Court and lawyer for child work, but with help and guidance, he is slowly making his way back. Smith said security needed to be stationed throughout the building at all times, especially when family court was sitting.
Source:New Zealand Herald
June 13, 2024 08:54 UTC
Media Insider: Newshub website to close – NZ’s third-biggest news website can’t be saved under new deal
The transfer also includes all video content post-June 2017. In April, Stuff had a unique audience of 2.1 million, the NZ Herald 1.96 million, Newshub 1.3 million, RNZ 1.2 million and 1News 787,000, according to Nielsen figures. The migration of Newshub content to Stuff is expected to start this month and take several months. A Warner Bros Discovery spokesman said: “The work the Newshub team has done over the years is so important to New Zealand’s history. A Newshub source said the company’s specialised digital team – some 13 people – were “deeply frustrated with a lack of comms from Stuff on the future of the high-performing Newshub website”.
Source:Stuff
June 13, 2024 06:59 UTC
Haere ra He Wake Eke Noa
He Waka Eke Noa was the last Government’s attempt to get the farming sector to do what all other sectors will have to do and that is pay for its emissions. As I said previously the report recommended the introduction of farm-level split-gas levy on agricultural emissions with incentives to reduce emissions and sequester carbon. Existing Government proposals were expected to result in the sector’s methane emissions reduction reaching the Government target of 10%. already being experienced in many regions, the farming sector has more to lose than most from the ever-increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions. “The reality is, government required or not, our agriculture sector will have to adapt over the coming years and reduce emissions.
Source:Stuff
June 13, 2024 05:50 UTC
Retail spending falls for fourth consecutive month - and the falls are getting bigger
The retail spending slump is getting worse, with sales figures falling for the fourth consecutive month - and the latest fall is the biggest of the four. Statistics NZ says that on a seasonally adjusted basis, total retail spending slumped 1.1% in May 2024 compared with April, while 'core' retail spending - which excludes fuel and vehicles - fell 0.8% on a seasonally-adjusted basis last month. In the past fourth months the total retail spending figure movements have fallen by, in order, 0.8%, 0.7%, 0.4% and now 1.1%. The May total retail figures were down some 1.6% on those for May 2023. Westpac senior economist Michael Gordon said retail spending levels have fallen over the last year despite some strong population growth, "which points to an even sharper fall in per-capita spending".
Source:Stuff
June 13, 2024 03:18 UTC
Breakfast briefing: Fed shifts to one 2024 cut, four in 2025
US CPI inflation came in lower than expected for May, slowing to 3.3%, the lowest in three months. While this rise was lower than the past three months it is a higher rate than the October to February period. But food price inflation hardly changed at 8.7%, a worrying sign for them. Meanwhile, Japanese producer price inflation is rising, up +2.4% in May from a year ago, a nine month high. That all means our TWI-5 starts today at 71.2, and up another net +20 bps from yesterday.
Source:New Zealand Herald
June 13, 2024 01:47 UTC
Stuff Grows The Country’s Largest Digital And Print Audience
Stuff Grows The Country’s Largest Digital And Print AudienceStuff Group’s digital and print audience has grown to more than 3.4 million New Zealanders each month and continues to be the largest in the country*, Nielsen CMI readership results released today reveal. This is the largest digital and print audience in Aotearoa and 1.9% larger than last quarter*. Digital and print subscribers now deliver almost double the reach of print alone with a combined audience of 788,000 for The Post, 637,000 for The Press and 406,000 for the Waikato Times*. Stuff Brand Connections Managing Director Matt Headland says premium print content continues to attract large audiences even as they migrate to paid digital subscriptions. “Our commercial partners know the value of advertising and integrating into high-trust products with highly-engaging, quality local journalism, both in digital and print.
Source:Stuff
June 13, 2024 00:42 UTC
Energy and emissions in the Climate Change Minister’s sights
Climate change poses risks but New Zealand’s Minister for Climate Change says it also offers capital and funding opportunities for the financial services sector. Watts said a key driver of the country’s emissions came from energy which accounted for 40% of NZ’s total emissions. Federated Farmers has said they will use the new Pasture Sector Group, also announced on Tuesday, to negotiate for no on-farm emissions pricing at all. Federated Farmers President Wayne Langford said he hoped the new group would focus on reducing, rather than pricing, on-farm emissions. Watts told interest.co.nz after the FSC event on Wednesday that he hadn’t heard Federated Farmers comments on no on-farm emissions pricing and that the Government had been “very clear” it would be working towards emissions pricing by 2030.
Source:Stuff
June 12, 2024 23:56 UTC
Wellington street turned into a river after 44-day-long leak
Photo: RYAN ANDERSON / STUFFBy Ryan Anderson of StuffWellington locals are alarmed at a leak that is pumping out water at an extreme rate - with repairs still days away. Photo: RYAN ANDERSON / STUFFLocal Tua Wilson lives a couple blocks away from the leak, but said he was surprised each time he walked past to work that it had not been repaired. Wellington Water said the leak was originally deemed medium priority when it was first assessed, but was escalated due to its worsening condition. Mayor Tory Whanau said she expected Wellington Water to be doing everything possible to clear the back log of leaks. "For example, Wellington Water Ltd could be engaging local plumbers to help fix minor leaks and clear the back log faster."
Source:Stuff
June 12, 2024 23:48 UTC
Why Luxon failed cancer patients so spectacularly
I’ve been commentating on politics for 30 years and I have never in my life witnessed something so cruel and vile as promising cancer patients their life saving drugs and then not funding them. Any organisation can improve its performance (and Pharmac has) but the real problem for Pharmac has never been the way it operates. That the Government did not provide the $280m for 13 cancer medicines in the Budget has (and this is speculation) nothing to do with funding. …it was National Party incompetence as to why it has failed to deliver on its promise to cancer patients! Cancer patients have been totally screwed over here!
Source:New Zealand Herald
June 12, 2024 23:20 UTC
FMA issues civil proceedings against Booster KiwiSaver leadership for alleged 'serious' breaches
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Source:Stuff
June 12, 2024 21:05 UTC