WE CREATE Ideas people want in on
WE CREATE Ideas people want in on
The creative problem-solving studio that helps organisations hungry for what’s next create ideas people get behind.
Office Party is the nimble creative problem-solving studio for hungry, regionally based organisations that need to shift people’s attitudes or actions but feel stuck on their next move. We get deep inside your business, align your people around the real problem and get close to your audience, then create ideas they want to be part of.
WE KNOW
YOUR PAIN
You need people to act. To believe. To buy in. To care. Otherwise, it’s a death spiral that hurts your business, your people, and even your audience. But your current approach isn’t landing: your message feels tired, your stakeholders aren’t aligned, you're stuck in the dreaded status quo, and you’re wary of bigger agencies adding distance, bringing ego, forcing the wrong thinking, and adding work to your workload.
We work with you. Never just for you. Promise.
PREVIOUS WAYS We’VE
SOLVED REAL PROBLEMS.
Office Party is a new studio, founded by Alex Metson after 17+ years leading award-winning work for agencies and organisations across New Zealand and internationally. The small selection of projects below demonstrate the problem-demolishing work that informs Office Party today.
Dying Reviews
Hospice NZ
Working with the CEO and senior marketer to change how organisations treat people at the end of life.
Innovation • Behaviour Change • Systems Thinking
Full Case Study
Love Creep
Ministry of Social Development
How close client collaboration, trust and bravery helped young people build healthier relationships.
Youth Culture • Social • Behaviour Change
Full Case Study
Codewords
New Zealand Defence Force
An internal truth that unearthed a campaign that redefined what it means to join the forces.
Storytelling • Recruitment • Brand Relaunch
Full Case Study
A State of Wonder
South Australia Tourism Board
Thousands of stakeholders agreeing they’re the most curious State on the planet.
Storytelling • Destination Marketing
Full Case Study
Fondle Filter
Testicular Cancer NZ
Working with senior leadership to create a Snapchat filter that got guys playing with their balls
Social • AR • Earned Media • Behaviour Change
Full Case Study
Victoria Bitter
Carlton United Breweries
Internal buy-in from the biggest brewery led to a promo that sold out before it began.
Sales Growth • Promotion • Social
Full Case Study
WE BRING THE CREATIVE CLOSE TO YOU
It’s all in our name. We muck in with your people, get close to your audience and find what’s worth building around. We bring the creative close to the clients. We don’t try to pull the clients close to the creative.
We regularly come into work in your office (or you can come to us).
We make friends with you, and your problems.
We get yarning to your people.
We hear everyone out, then we set the direction.
We get laser focused on the problem.
We invite stakeholders into the jamming sessions.
We say ‘and’ not ‘but’.
We dig together. Get messy. We have fun.
We find business truth & the human truth.
We make the creative leap.
We help you feel truly connected to the ideas.
We pull in the right people to make them.
OFFICE ANTICS
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We’re like that moment at the office party when the jargon drops and people start talking like human beings again.
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We dig down to find the real problem that’s getting in your way. Get curious about your own people or business challenge, what makes your audience tick and how we strategically go after it.
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We pull insight from your people to ensure the work we create is something they want to get behind
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Meaningful moves getting everyone onboard. We help you get everyone around the table pumped. From CMO, CEO, CFO to the Office Dog.
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Big, real and attitude shifting creative thinking that pushes yours, your audience’s and our boundaries. Everything from campaigns, to product, to utility.
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Branding and campaign and content creation the world will take notice off, in conjunction with trusted partners.
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We create tone and language that only you can own, but importantly everyone hears their voice in.
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It goes without saying, but we’re saying it anyway. Digital and social is the foundation of killer thinking.
MORE DETAILS to prove our chops
Creative Recognition
Cannes Lions · AXIS NZ · Best Awards NZ · D&AD · Spikes Asia · One Show · London International Awards · Effies
Clients
United Nations · Waka Kotahi · Ministry of Social Development · Teaching Council NZ · EECA · Coles Insurance · NZDF · ANZ Bank · Honda
Nissan · Carlton United Breweries · South Australia Tourism · Testicular Cancer NZ
THE PEOPLE
Alex Metson
Creative Director and founder of Office Party. From brands to behaviour change, Alex has tackled gnarly problems, and shifted fortunes audiences across almost every sector. His work has created cultural and attitude shifts towards some of the trickiest societal issues like road safety, sex and young relationships, coercive control, domestic violence, government recruitment and the process of dying in Aotearoa. But it’s not just behaviour that he’s changed. His worked has shifted the revenue needle for the likes of SPC Australia, Honda, Nissan, Medibank and Carlton United Breweries.
Alex has been awarded numerous times at all the global creative award shows and has the proof in the pudding with multiple Effies. He’s also judged the best creative work across Aotearoa and the globe.
