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Motion Sickness

Advertising & Creative Agency
Open roles
0
Founded
2013
Employees
11-50
Offices
2

About Motion Sickness

Motion Sickness is a New Zealand-based creative studio and independent, multi-award winning, full-service agency. We specialise in culturally grounded strategy, creative advertising, and brand storytelling for ambitious businesses.

Our services include brand strategy, integrated campaigns, social media strategy, film production, design through our Motion Sickness Design Office, and product development. We are guided by our proprietary strategic and creative framework, "The Soul and the System."

Our mission is to be the most sought-after creative company in the world by applying creativity to business problems in whatever form makes sense. We value unapologetically human creativity, independence, a "no bullshit" approach, and collaboration built on friendship.

Founded in 2013 in a Dunedin student flat, we are now based in Auckland, New Zealand, and have built a world-class reputation on hard work and fresh ideas.

More about Motion Sickness

Leadership

  • Sam Stuchbury (Founder & Executive Creative Director)
  • Alex McManus (Partner & General Manager)
  • Hilary Ngan Kee (Partner & Head of Strategy)

Key Projects

  • You’re Cooked (Fire and Emergency NZ)
  • Rep Your Suburb (Whānau Ora)
  • The Blood Oath
  • Karangahape Road Bad Reviews
  • Keep It Real Online
  • Quit the Tit

Notable Partners

  • Kathmandu
  • Les Mills International
  • Pizza Hut
  • Singapore Airlines
  • Fire and Emergency New Zealand
  • Te Whānau o Waipareira
  • Shine Lawyers
  • New Zealand Herpes Foundation
  • Ryman Healthcare
  • Whānau Ora
  • Griffins
  • Ora

Awards

  • Over 100 awards in recent years
  • Global Agency of the Year (Campaign)
  • Global Grand Effie
  • Multiple Axis Awards (including Grand Prix and Idea of the Year)
  • Cannes Lion #1 Agency Pacific Region 2025
  • LIA Indie Agency of the Year AU/NZ 2025

Offices

Where Motion Sickness is based

2 locations
  • Auckland office

    Auckland, New Zealand
  • Dunedin office

    Dunedin, Otago Region, New Zealand

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