Fanaticals

05/08/2025

After nearly a year of producing Simplicity's podcast, we had our first 'SIR' in-studio 🔥

We recently had the pleasure of having Sir Ashley Bloomfield on 'Economy Made Simple' with our pal, Shamubeel Eaqub.

These men had a phenomenal conversation on health, leadership, and Aotearoa's economy.

Not many brands in NZ could pull off this style of 'branded content' in an authentic way. Simplicity may be the only one.

Full episode is now live YouTube and all podcast platforms 🎧

21/03/2025

What an INSANE first 30-days for "Unfiltered with Dave Letele" 🤯

One of the craziest insights was from our YouTube retention...

📺 30,511 hours (or 1271 days) total watch time on YouTube, with 51.1% of that watched on TV. Compared to 37.1% on their phone and 9.0% on computer.

We got a lot of stick for "over-producing" this form of content, but the numbers don't lie... podcasts with high-spec production can behave like TV shows!

In 30-days, without a cent spend on paid media, we've generated:

🎙️ 133K+ views on YouTube
🎙️ 780K+ views on Instagram
🎙️ 892K+ views on TikTok

We've also been approached and have now signed with Acast, on all audio platforms — along with scaling up to weekly distribution.

If you're thinking of starting a video podcast for yourself, business or brand this year — reach out. I'd love to see how Fanaticals can help make it happen 🚀

Check it out here: https://linktr.ee/UnfilteredwithDave

25/02/2025

500K+ views in 7-days, organically 🤯

Since launching Dave Letele’s new podcast last week, it’s exploded.

The 1st episode with & was ranking #23 on Spotify’s Podcasts charts within 5-days.

Without a cent on paid media, we also generated:

🎙️ 50K+ on YouTube
🎙️ 225K+ on TikTok
🎙️ 215K+ on Instagram

Check it out

If you’re thinking of starting a video podcast for your business or brand this year — reach out. I’d love to see how .nz can help make it happen 🚀

05/09/2024

Exciting news for your Friday. Fanaticals has recently been accepted onto updated All-of-Government Creative & Media Services Panel.

We're pumped to see what we can cook up with the government agencies over the next few years — partnering across creative, social media, and content production service pillars.

02/09/2024

Roadie film dump from 11 days on the road shooting our BMC campaign. Trekking across Aotearoa from Christchurch, Nelson, Auckland and Whangārei — in our little production van.

02/09/2024

New work for Brendan Murray Construction Ltd

BMC's brand campaign was designed to define their brand story and provide a platform for future growth within the aged-care sector.

Our approach was to keep things real and authentic.

Capturing genuine moments across their team, clients, and residents at 'live' villages around the country — integrated into a warm, anamorphic treatment.

02/04/2024

Some sun baked BTS from our recent tennis shoot. Spot the shots in our showreel 👀🎾

12/03/2024

Exciting news. Southern Studios is rebranding.

Introducing Fanaticals, a new-age creative production agency.

A passionate bunch of thinkers, creatives and filmmakers, hell-bent on making the best ad campaigns and branded content out there.

Check out the release article below and our fresh new website here: www.fanaticals.co.nz

To reflect its growing creative capabilities, Southern Studios is rebranding as Fanaticals, with a fresh new look and website. This evolution formalises the natural progression the studio has experienced over the past few years, servicing the majority of its clients directly as a hybrid creative age

25/01/2024

New Year, New Job? 👀

Southern Studios are looking for an experienced Video Editor to join our team of creatives down in Parnell. The role includes leading our post process on TVCs through to social content — across our diverse range of clients from multi-national corporates to startups brands, charities and government organisations 🤙

If you know anyone that might be interested, please tag or send this link below.

We're hunting for an experienced Senior Video Editor with a passion for storytelling and creating high-quality content!

26/07/2023

New work for One New Zealand 💚

Now that the dust has settled a bit with their new re-brand from Vodafone — we're excited to share our "Life at One" recruitment campaign.

The vision of the campaign was to showcase the diversity range of opportunities, people and culture throughout the company HQ — brought to life through an interactive walk-and-talk treatment. Really proud of how much we could accomplish in a single day of filming, which was only possible by our incredible talent & crew!

Director & EP: Geoff Holmes
DOP: Nick Reed
Producer: Georgia Hines