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Motion Sickness affirms He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the cornerstone of Aotearoa.

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Independent Agency Of The Year

One Show Asia 2025

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ndie Agency Of The Year AU/NZ

LIA 2025

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#1 Agency 2025 Pacific Region

Cannes Lion 2205

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Indie Agency Of The Year

One Show Asia

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Grand Effie 2025 Aotearoa

Make New Zealand The Best Place In The World To Have Herpes

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Lions Health Grand Prix For Good 2025

Make New Zealand The Best Place In The World To Have Herpes

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Grand Prix For Good Cannes Lion 2025

Make New Zealand The Best Place In The World To Have Herpes

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Gold LIA

Make New Zealand The Best Place In The World To Have Herpes

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Cannes Lions 2025

Make New Zealand The Best Place In The World To Have Herpes, 2x Gold, 2x Bronze

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D&AD Pencils

Make New Zealand The Best Place In The World To Have Herpes

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Global Grand Effie 2025

You're Cooked, Fire and Emergency New Zealand.

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Effie Awards Aotearoa 2024

Gold for Frank Energy in Utilities, 2x Bronze for Fire & Emergency New Zealand in Short Term Success & Low Budget Categories.

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New Zealand Marketing Awards 2024

Excellence in New Brand Development, Excellence in Communications Marketing Strategy for Frank Energy.

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Global Agency Of The Year 2024

Creative Agency, Silver. Independent Creative Agency, Silver.

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WARC 2024 Strategic brilliance, effective impact

Silver, Your Cooked, Strategic Thinking.

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Axis Awards 2024

Idea Of The Year, Rep Your Suburb, Whānau Ora.

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Axis Awards 2024

Grand Prix, Rep Your Suburb, Whānau Ora.

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Axis Awards 2024

5 x Gold for Rep Your Suburb, 1 x Quit The Tit, 2 x Silver Frank Energy, 1 x Silver Big Save, 4 x Silver Our Future Is Māori.

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New Zealand Agency 2023

Best Ads Rankings.

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Campaign Agency of the Year Awards 2023

Boutique Agency Of The Year AU/NZ Gold.

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Campaign Agency of the Year Awards 2023

Creative Agency Of The Year AU/NZ Silver, Independent Agency Of The Year AU/NZ Silver.

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Campaign Agency of the Year Awards 2023

Production Agency Of The Year AU/NZ Bronze.

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Effie Awards 2023

2x Gold, Hardest Challenge Award, 2x Silver and 3 x Bronze for You're Cooked. Bronze, Diversity and Inclusion for Rep You're Suburb.

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TVNZ Marketing Awards 2023

Public Sector Marketing Campaign Winner, You're Cooked.

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AXIS Awards 2023

Gold for You're Cooked, 4 x Silver and 20 x Bronze.

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Campaign Agency of the Year Awards 2022

Creative Agency, Production Company and Boutique Advertising Agency of the Year.

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Public Relations Institute of New Zealand Awards

3x Gold for You're Cooked, including 'Most Innovative Campaign'.

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Best Awards

Including 2 x Purple Pins for Proud to be Māori.

#1

NZ Creative Agency Ranking 2022

Best Ads On TV 2022 Agency Rankings.

#2

World Creative Agency Ranking 2022

Best Ads On TV 2022 Agency Rankings.

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Best Ads On TV

20 x Best Ads top picks.

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Axis Awards 2022

Including Silver for Karangahape Road Bad Reviews.

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Epica Awards 2022

Public Sector Award.

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Gerety Awards 2022

Keep it Real Online.

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Berlin Commercial Awards 2022

Proud to be Māori.

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TVNZ Marketing Awards 2021

Public Sector Winner, Keep it Real Online.

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Effie Awards 2021

The Eggplant.

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Ad Stars 2021

Kiwi Lager, Keep it Real Online.

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Clio Award 2021

Keep it Real Online.

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The Beacons 2021

The Eggplant.

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Effie Awards 2021

Keep it Real Online.

A creative company that solves
problems with ideas. Not just ads.
Ideas that are just as chaotic, emotional,
irrational, inspiring, amusing, honest
and human as we are.

Come in. Take a seat.

We're quite proud
of ourselves

Cannes Lion #1 Agency 2025 Pacific Region

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One Asia 2025

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LIA Indie Agency Of The Year AU/NZ 2025

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D&AD Pencils 2025

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Effie Aotearoa Grand Effie 2025

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New Zealand Marketing Awards 2024

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Global Agency of the Year

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Ideas for the human experience. 

At Motion Sickness, we don’t just make ads.
We make ideas.

Imperfect, messy, human ideas.
The kind that make your hands sweat when we present them.

We don’t do it to shout, but to say something worth hearing.
And change what comes next.
For people. For brands. For problems.

Because as tech takes over and the world optimises itself into oblivion,
people crave the good stuff.
The unapologetically human stuff,
in the places the machines can’t map.

That’s where we'll be, standing in the sun. 
Because here, creativity isn’t disappearing.
It’s being set free, in all its irrational glory.

That’s why we’re not an advertising agency, maybe we never were.
We’re a creative company.

A studio. Your imagination department.
A something-we-haven’t-thought-of-yet.

Our job is ideas. Ideas that become films.
Design. Experiences. Places. 
A cookbook for drunk people.
A virus that brought a country closer.
A film that made mums talk to their kids about porn.

Because the future isn’t asking for more ads.
But it’ll always need better ideas.

Back to thinking.
Motion Sickness. Creative Company.

How does that sound?

Thanks for your patience.
Our website will see you now.
But first, relax and stack these rocks.