It's as if the creative team's brains exploded on to a whiteboard and they gave it to a junior animator and said: Make this, wites Toby Manhire.

Posters of a young woman smoking, displayed by a Kiwi clothing chain, have angered a health charity.

An outsider tuning in to the Valerie Adams medal ceremony could be excused for thinking Adams came from the small Pacific nation of "ANZ Bank".

ANZ's saturation sponsorship of Valerie Adams' gold medal ceremony will be salt in the wounds of a rival bank and fellow Olympic sponsor, a marketing expert says.

A weed control firm which bluntly said "wimpy" job seekers were not suited to their summer vacancies has pulled the ad from Trade Me after more than 42,000 hits.

Telco avoids major damage to its reputation by owning up to the wrongdoing, says brand expert.

Vodafone New Zealand has been fined $960,000 for misleading advertising after the company pleaded guilty to 21 charges laid by the Commerce Commission.

Forget about intellectual property; Kiwis want the tobacco industry to wither and die, writes Liam Dann.

Sexy freedom fighters hurling tampons into the trolley - it's a triumph for capitalism.

If packs can't be displayed, or advertised at all, what is the point of legislating for them to be 'plain'?