Parkside Media is New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

's 2nd largest independent publisher representing 2% of the magazine market. Its offices are in Grey Lynn

Grey Lynn

Grey Lynn is an inner residential suburb of Auckland City, New Zealand, located three kilometres to the west of the city centre. Originally a separate borough, Grey Lynn amalgamated with Auckland City in 1914....

, Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

. Established late in 1990 it is owned by Greg Vincent.

Parkside Media has focused on automotive and technology media since its inception. Against a generally declining readership across the whole magazine industry, Parkside Media's motoring titles (NZ Performance Car, NZ Classic Car and NZV8) bucked the downwards trend for 2008 showing modest increases in readership.

In September 2008 an online games division was established making Parkside Media the only magazine publisher in New Zealand to explore online games. It is also the only magazine publisher in New Zealand to produce a TV show (NZ Performance Car TV

NZ Performance Car TV

-History:NZ Performance Car TV is a free-to-air television program in its eighth series, produced in-house by Parkside Media. It has had airtime on TV ONE, TV2, TV3, Prime and Sky Sports, often with several networks simultaneously which is unique in its genre. Each series consists of 13 episodes....

 and NZV8 TV).

Magazines

Parkside Media publishes

• NZ Performance Car
  NZ Performance Car
  NZ Performance Car is a monthly automobile magazine and website, and is the biggest selling automotive and men’s lifestyle magazine in New Zealand.As Parkside Media’s second title, it has eclipsed the success of NZ Classic Car...
  
  
• NZ Classic Car
• NZV8
• Tone
  Tone magazine
  Tone is a bi-monthly magazine combining coverage of technological developments in New Zealand and from around the world with reviews on the latest consumer products available in New Zealand....
  
  
• D-Photo
  D-Photo
  -Overview:D-Photo is a bi-monthly full colour, perfect bound photography magazine that focuses on the popularity of digital photography and the huge demand for information on cameras and photography related products in New Zealand....
  
  
• The Photographer's Mail
  The Photographer's Mail
  The Photographer's Mail was a the only commercial photography industry publication in New Zealand. It was a monthly broadsheet newspaper published eleven times a year, that was distributed free to the professional photography community....
  
  
• No Limits

Television

Parkside Media has produced NZ Performance Car TV in-house, a television show that aligns with NZ Performance Car magazine, and NZV8 TV which aligns with NZV8. NZV8 TV was presented by Andy Booth

Andy Booth (motorsport)

Andy Booth is a motor racing driver from New Zealand, currently competing in the New Zealand V8 touring car series. A relatively late starter in motorsport, Booth never raced karts, and only competed in a handful of Formula Ford events in New Zealand before heading to the UK where he spent several...

, former New Zealand V8s championship-winning driver.

Internet

Parkside runs over 20 websites such as new car review site Car and SUV, several ecommerce sites, and websites for its magazine publications.

Mobile

Parkside Media pioneered mobile publishing in New Zealand as one of the largest content suppliers to the Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

 network in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 for ringtones, screen wallpapers and video. It now publishes Drift Legends and other iPhone applications.

Events

Parkside Media organises the NZ Drift Series

NZ Drift Series

The NZ Drift Series is a five-round motorsport series organised by Parkside Media, publisher of NZ Performance Car magazine. Competing against D1NZ it has achieved greater success because of NZ Performance Car and NZ Performance Car TV's marketing power....

, Super Lap

Super Lap

Super Lap is a time attack motorsport event. Super Lap events are being held in Australia and New Zealand.The inaugural Superlap Australia Superlap Australia event was held at the Oran Park Raceway in July 2008...

 and Import All-Stars

Import All-Stars

Import All-Stars is an import drag racing event organised by Parkside Media and NZ Performance Car magazine. First held in 2007, it was rerun on 29 March 2008. Both events have been held at Fram Autolite Dragway, Meremere....

. It has previously organised various model search and motorsport events, and is a key sponsor of Intermarque Concours d'Elegance.

Awards

Cam Leggett, designer since issue 68 of NZ Performance Car has won two awards for Designer of the Year at the MPA Awards in the Special Interest Category in 2007 and 2008..
Greg Vincent was the recipient of The Meguiar's Awards in 2004.

External links

• Parkside Media
• Magazine audit data