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<i>Deborah Hill Cone</i>: Keep your distance, Mr Banker
I don't want a friend - just a bank that knows its place.
<i>Mark Irving :</i> It's got to be relevant to get in the door
In the hugely competitive NZ retail sector you have to offer some deal to get people in the door.
Fares slashed in airline price war
A cutprice airfare war has erupted on the Tasman, and some flights are now as cheap as a cab to the airport.
Appeal to 'mandom' to stay in 'mantrol' on roads
A new road safety campaign is appealing to young male drivers to 'slow down and stay in mantrol', in an attempt to reduce NZ's road toll.
Henry's Asian driver comments 'borderline' - BSA
'Ill-conceived' comments by Paul Henry on Asian drivers were not sufficiently objectionable for a complaint to be upheld, the BSA has ruled.
<i>Mark Irving:</i> Ideas at the core of any good ad
Why ads with a strong core idea gain the best results.
Times says 105,000 behind news paywall
News Corporation has reported 105,000 online sales of The Times and The Sunday Times - the first official figures sincce putting its online news content behind a paywall.
<i>Mark Irving:</i> Why a bit of TV is good for children
Children are a lot more media savvy than we give them credit for.
<b>Media:</b> Did the Govt save <i>The Hobbit</i> - or lose a game of bluff?
The Hobbit deal is not the first where New Zealand taxpayers have shelled out extra money to keep a Hollywood studio happy.
<i>Media</i>: Jackson's bitter truths win media war
Sir Peter Jackson and his business interests seem to have won the media battle over The Hobbit.
Fake advert aims to deter boy racers
Boy-racers responding to an advertisement for a car heard how the 'owner' crashed and killed a child, as part of an anti-street racing campaign.
<i>Mark Irving: </i> When sport becomes a brand
Mark Irving, advertising company director, looks at the dangers of treating sports as a brand or franchise.
Good things take time, but always come to an end
The adverts say: "Good things take time" and, for the two actors who have appeared on television as the faces of Mainland cheese for the past decade, that time is up.
<i>Brian Rudman</i>: Henry isn't the only one who needs to go
Paul Henry is not the only thing that's gone feral at Television New Zealand.
Tobacco firms deny internet marketing tactic
Health organisations are alarmed at how the internet is being used to promote smoking.
Henry sorry - but not sorry enough
A public relations specialist says Paul Henry would be well aware he had made a huge mistake but was yet to show the right amount of remorse.
<i>Kerre Woodham</i>: TVNZ as much to blame as Henry
What hasn't been said about Paul Henry this week? Everywhere I went everyone was talking about his latest outburst.