Independent NZ Media Consultancy
Your media budget works harder when someone independent is watching it.
Super Media is an independent NZ media consultancy. Ron Sneddon has spent 35 years on both sides of the table — buying media, selling it, and running an agency. He knows exactly where budgets get eroded, and exactly how to stop it.
Trusted by NZ businesses across professional services, retail, financial services, and property — typically spending $2,000–$20,000/month on advertising.
What usually happens
Most NZ businesses who've been burned by advertising describe the same experience. The details differ. The pattern doesn't.
01
The report looked good. The results didn’t.
Agencies measure what they can control — impressions, clicks, reach. Not whether your phone rang or your door opened. A good-looking report can hide a campaign that didn't work.
02
You met the boss. You got the graduate.
The pitch team and the service team are rarely the same people. Senior staff win the work. Junior staff run it. That gap is where your budget gets managed by someone who doesn't yet know what to question.
03
The advice wasn’t free of strings.
Most agencies have financial relationships with the media they recommend. That doesn't make them dishonest — but it does mean their best recommendation and their most profitable recommendation aren't always the same thing.
04
You were sold AI. You got a dashboard.
AI is being used as a sales tool by every agency in NZ right now. Super Media uses it as a working tool — for audience analysis, channel benchmarking, and campaign diagnosis. There's a difference.
You don't need a big budget to need independent advice
Most of the businesses that come to Super are spending between $2,000 and $20,000 a month on advertising.
The Superscan tool was built specifically for this situation. It takes 30 seconds, costs nothing, and gives you an independent read on whether your current advertising makes sense — without a sales call, a contract, or any obligation.
Run your free Superscan →Why Super is different
Not different as a positioning statement. Different by design.
Independent by design
No network relationships, no preferred supplier lists, no volume targets. Every recommendation is made on merit. Structurally rare in NZ.
Senior judgement, not junior execution
When you work with Super Media you get 35 years of media experience applied directly to your account — not handed off to a graduate.
AI that works, not AI that impresses
Audience analysis that used to take a week takes minutes. Every Superscan is a live AI analysis. This isn't a feature — it changes the economics of independent advice.
No lock-in
Month-to-month. We stay because the work is good, not because you signed something.
What Super Media does
We work across the full media picture — not just one channel.
Media Strategy & Planning
Where your budget should go, and why. Built from audience behaviour up, not from what a supplier wants to sell.
Media Audit & Review
An independent read on whether your current spend is performing. Most audits identify at least one material issue in the first session.
Programmatic Buying
Precision audience buying without agency markup or preferred supplier relationships shaping the buy.
Social Media Strategy
Channel strategy and audience targeting — not just content scheduling.
Superscan
A free 30-second AI diagnosis of your current media mix. The fastest independent read available to NZ businesses.
Retained Advisory
Ongoing independent guidance for businesses that want a media-literate voice in the room — without replacing their current agency.
The person behind the advice
Ron Sneddon
Ron spent 35 years inside NZ media: buying it, selling it, and running an agency. He has sat at every table in this industry and watched, from the inside, exactly how advertising budgets get eroded. Super exists because he decided to stop watching it happen.
When you work with Super, you're not getting a junior account manager following a process. You're getting someone who has seen every version of the sales pitch your current agency gave you — and knows what it looks like when the advice is shaped by someone else's interests.
- 35 years buying and selling NZ media across TV, radio, print, digital, and programmatic
- Worked with clients across retail, professional services, financial services, and property
- Founded and ran a media agency before building Super
- Created Superscan — the only free independent AI media diagnostic available to NZ businesses
“If the advice would be different depending on who's paying for it, it's not independent advice.”Ron's full story →
What independent advice actually changes
Real outcomes from Super Media engagements. Client names withheld on request.
Media Audit
Retail
19%
reduction in total media spend
+12%
increase in audience reach
Digital display was consuming 34% of the media budget and delivering 8% of measurable response. It had never been independently benchmarked.
Media Strategy
Financial Services
31%
lower CPM vs agency plan
2×
qualified enquiry rate
The agency plan over-indexed on broadcast for an under-45 audience. The recommended channel mix was rebuilt from NZ audience behaviour up.
Retained Advisory
Property
$140K
in savings identified, year one
Ongoing
retained advisory relationship
Overpriced digital inventory had gone undetected for 18 months. Buying terms on radio had not been reviewed or renegotiated in three years.
“We'd been with the same agency for three years and assumed the results were just what advertising looked like. Ron showed us in one conversation that we'd been paying for reach we weren't getting. It was embarrassing how straightforward it was once someone independent looked at it.”
“Super Media were the only agency who actually told me the truth about our digital ad performance which was sub par, as they discovered. Our business has doubled since Ron and his team implemented their strategies and we're really impressed with the personal service we get.”
The Super view on NZ media
Industry Data
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13 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
Search
Is Search Advertising Dead?
Every few years someone declares it dead. Every year it generates hundreds of billions. Here's what's actually happening — and what it means for your strategy.
12 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
Small Business
Why your advertising isn't working — and why it's probably not your fault
Most NZ small businesses that try advertising and fail aren't bad at business. They've been sold something that was never going to work, by people who weren't going to tell them that.
26 Apr 2026 · 7 min read
Not sure if your media budget is working?
Most businesses aren't. That's the result of an industry that measures what it can control, not what matters to you.
A free Media Audit gives you a clear answer: where your budget is going, what it's delivering, and where the waste is. No contract. No obligation. No sales pitch dressed up as advice.
Common questions
Do you require a long-term contract?
No. We work month-to-month. If the work is good, clients stay. That's the only retention mechanism we use.
What size businesses do you work with?
Most clients spend between $2,000 and $20,000 a month on advertising. Big enough to matter, small enough that independent advice changes the economics.
How is this different from working with an agency?
An agency executes campaigns. Super Media gives you an independent read on whether those campaigns make sense — before, during, or after. We don't take commissions from media owners.
What does a Free Media Audit involve?
A review of your current channels, spend allocation, and reported results — benchmarked against what the media should be delivering for a business like yours. Most audits identify at least one material issue within the first session.
How quickly will I see value?
Most clients come away from the first conversation with something actionable. A full audit typically delivers a clear diagnosis within one to two weeks.