Who are we?

Whanganui based Blackout Media Ltd has an extremely successful track record in New Zealand video production throughout the North Island and were one of the first (if not, the very first) to be funded by government agency Te Māngai Pāho to produce a purely online webseries ‘Hahana’, which, 4 years later has grown into the biggest Māori youth series/brand in Aotearoa with over 25 million views, 280,000 followers, and reaching audiences of all ages through Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube.

We produced the first ever Reo-a-thon, a 12 hour livestream telethon style show with the goal of getting over 1 million comments in te reo Māori and we smashed it! As well as produced the first ever Hahana Awards show this year purely to celebrate and showcase our Māori Content creators success on Social Media racking up hundreds of thousands of views.

During lockdown we produced a ‘made for tiktok’ only series that garnered us over 140k followers on the platform within 6 months. Another first for a Māori video production company.

Needless to say, we like to lead in terms of ‘firsts’.

Not only that, Blackout Media has produced content for television, digital only networks, Social Media, Coorperations, organisations and businesses wanting to reach more of their audiences in innovative ways.

Some other projects we have worked on.
Healthy Relationships Campaign (Te Puni Kokiri) to highlight healthy relationships for our young people.2020
The Pepeha Challenge Campaign (Māori language week) over 2 million views.
Operation Isolation (Online only) still being broadcast.
Tamariki Takeover Series 1 & 2 – Heihei TVNZ on Demand
The first Oompher series for Careers NZ, then a second series reaching,produced, written, directed, and edited by Vicki
and targeted at a rangatahi audience.
50 x mini episodes for Polyfest NZ (also screened on Māori Television)
Four series of ‘Hahana’ the web-series (Finalist for NZ Webfest best factual series award (2015,2017, 2018,2020)
A documentary series Ngā Pari Karangaranga for Māori TV
A teen television and digital series Smooth for Māori TV
A Maia series for Careers NZ
Gisborne Council Campaign webseries.
5 x full crew livestream events.
Winner at the Whanganui Māori Business Awards for professional Services 2021