New Zealand Insights Effectiveness Awards 2026

Join us for an evening celebrating the very best of insights in Aotearoa - recognising work that informs thinking and drives real-world impact.
We’re also thrilled to be joined by TVNZ’s Matt Gibb, who will be leading us through the celebrations.
This year, we’re introducing a refreshed suite of awards, find them in the Entry Pack.

Entries and event registration are now open - we look forward to celebrating with you!

Get your tickets now for the NZ Insights Effectiveness Awards on Thursday 17th September.

Individual tickets $175 + GST

Group of ten tickets $1575 + GST (one invoice)

REGISTER HERE

Thursday 17th September 2026

From 6:00pm until late
Rooftop at QT, Auckland

Matt Gibb has spent over 20 years working in television both in front and behind the camera. You name it, he's probably done it! As one of New Zealand's most experienced presenters Matt has clocked up thousands of hours of live telly.​

Matt recently returned to NZ after 6 years in Sydney where he was a Senior Producer for the Australian Broadcasting Company, helping to create television formats which sold around the world.​

In 2023 Matt has fronted TVNZ 1's Country House Hunters NZ, travelling the country and helping Kiwis escape the rat race. He also regularly appears on TVNZ 1's Breakfast, with recent roving reports from Tasmania, Melbourne, Fiji and Tahiti as well as across the length and breadth of Aotearoa. 

Before leaving for Sydney in 2015, Matt hosted the travel segments on TVNZ's weekly lifestyle show Kiwi Living. He was previously the face of the country's biggest telecommunications company, Spark, and also spent two years fronting New Zealand's national Lotto broadcast. ​

Matt was a regular host on TV1's Good Morning, and has also had co-hosting duties on TV1's Breakfast and Seven Sharp.

Matt started as a teenager presenting kid's television show Squirt, before moving on to Studio 2 Live. For seven seasons, Matt worked in front of the camera, and behind the scenes as a field producer.​

In late 2010, Matt helped launch Television New Zealand's first interactive music television channel, TVNZ U. As Senior Producer for U Live, Matt created, produced and presented content from around the country.​

No stranger to standing up in front of a crowd, Matt has MC’d events right across the country, from corporate dinners through to solo-hosting the stage in front of over 100,000 people at Auckland’s Christmas in the Park, and had regular MC'ing work with both Tourism New Zealand and Air New Zealand across the ditch in Sydney.​

An experienced voice-over artist, Matt has lent his voice to major brand TVC's and radio ads, including Spark, Coca-Cola, Subway, Air New Zealand, Mastercard and many more.