Air New Zealand has teamed up controversial puppet Rico with superstar rapper Snoop Dogg in its latest video.

Imagine you were to start up an internet-based business. And told that to promote your business, you would not be allowed to do any affiliate marketing. Or joint ventures. Or any external publicity.

YouTube is no longer just about building a buzz on emerging artists and new albums. The largest labels are making "millions of dollars a month" from the advertising alongside their videos.

APN News & Media said its New Zealand media business had a solid year in 2010 with revenue growth of 1.7pc and earnings growth of 9.6pc.

A radio station's controversial 'win a wife' competition is going ahead - with a tongue-in-cheek name change - despite allegations it devalues marriage and violates human dignity.

It was the kind of flash mob that only the internet can generate.

One of the things I enjoy about advertising is that much of the work involves simplification. It kind of goes against the grain in this fast paced and often complicated world.

Some real estate agents face investigation for allegedly falsely claiming that houses were designed by architects.

DB Breweries has been ordered to withdraw TV and online ads from its current campaign featuring Arnold Nordmeyer's infamous late-1950s "Black Budget" and the company's DB Export Beer.

Rachel Hunter's modelling career kicked off in one of Tip Top's ads when she was just 15. It was the mid-1980s and a Trumpet cost 95c.

The top social-networking service in the world's biggest internet market was created by graduates of a prestigious university to help students communicate with one another. And it's not Facebook.

A radio competition offering listeners the chance to "win a wife" has appalled a former MP who is calling for it to be pulled.

MediaWorks is under fire for a series of "sexualised" adverts - one of which features the words "backstabbing sl**".

Ever walked into a cold room on a chilly night?

The Government and Sky Television are both dismissing the need for regulation of video content.

Pernod Ricard threatened to pull its advertising from TVNZ after a vodka ad was placed alongside a story about a schoolboy who drank himself to death.

How many times do you look on a homepage and because of the mass of cluttered information you have no idea where to start?