NTRNZ media is an award-winning creative house specialised in content production and marketing. We create formats, content and concepts for all platforms, channels and media globally. We design and implement impressive combinations of visuality, online services and video. Pure, northern nature is our eternal source of inspiration.
We create phenomena. We tell stories and communicate messages in video format in all platforms. What really inspires us is content that has an entertaining or marketing purpose but also carries a deeper meaning. We produce everything from TV series to live sports broadcasts, social media content and short movies.
Stories spark imagination, and imagination is an essential element of a brand. In the social media age, your target group is also building an image of itself with the content it shares. You need to build your brand to be an example of your target group or a messenger of their values. We help you achieve this with long-term and systematic branded content design and production.
We design the brand strategy and visual marketing materials for international brands, with years of experience. We manage the visual marketing entirety: from video production to webistes, logos, brochures and trade fair stands.
An ever-increasing amount of business takes place online. We create websites that keep our clients on the crest of the online presence wave. We combine our visual expertise with the latest online technologies and e-commerce solutions to provide an entirety that is second to none. Our hardcore coding experts also have Google AdWords Search Engine Optimisation Certificates.
27.4.2020 - news
Award-winning creative house NTRNZ media Ltd has strengthened its strategic competence by acquiring the business of Luova toimisto Ranka Ltd. Both companies are based in Oulu, Northern Finland. The company is also about to spread its operations to the capital area as its new office opens in Helsinki in May.
In connection with the acquisition, Ranka CEO Juhani Parhiala starts as the Head of Strategy at NTRNZ media. In March, the NTRNZ media team was strengthened by Creative Director Pia Grekula, with background and experience from agencies like Bob the Robot and TBWA.
It’s time to blow up the traditional way we think about content production and marketing. We’re building a completely new type of creative agency, that does not fit into any known pattern or business model. This way, we’re able to serve our customers in the best way possible and create bigger, higher-quality content entities.
Founder and Executive Creative Director Teemu Hostikka
The business acquisition combines the core competencies of two Northern Finnish companies: powerful visuality, meaningful content production and strategic planning. The team thinks that it’s about time customers wake up and invest in new, innovative ideas.
In this difficult time when people, companies and society are looking for a direction, we need someone to lead the way. I’ve never been comfortable with the ad industry business logic. With NTRNZ media, we decided to take a big step and form a team that has the means to change the industry’s logic as a whole. This team is able to deliver new type of productions that exceed any international quality standard and that are intellectually sustainable and profitable. And we will.
Director of Strategy Juhani Parhiala
NTRNZ media opens an office in the Finnish Capital Helsinki at the beginning of May. The new unit is lead by Creative Director Pia Grekula, who has won dozens of prestigious advertising awards. Her latest projects include the ”Long Shot” campaign for Hartwall, directed by Renny Harlin, and the most visible campaigns of recent years for VR and Stockmann, for example.
To me, NTRNZ media’s content and format know-how is a truly differentiating factor. Traditional production companies do not offer ad agency services, and on the other hand, a traditional ad agency does not have know-how in formats. NTRNZ’s extensive experience of both as well as their international merits open up the possibility to create completely new content formats for our advertising agency customers as well.
Creative Director Pia Grekula
NTRNZ media is a creative house that has won the Finnish Television Academy Golden Venla award three times. The company’s series are distributed globally and it has multiple ongoing international productions and collaboration agreements with prominent international TV and film distribution companies.
I’m proud to lead a company that under one roof, combines online stores, visuality and cross-media concepts into seamless entities, and takes a bold step forward in this challenging situation.
CEO Hanna Mustonen
More information:
Teemu Hostikka
+358 45 639 8664
Juhani Parhiala
+358 50 343 4967
Pia Grekula
+358 50 361 9660
Hanna Mustonen
+358 45 634 3073
NTRNZ media is an award-winning creative house specialised in content production and marketing. The company is best known for the tv series Eränkävijät (Love of the Wild), as well as being the marketing partner of many known brands such as Visit Kalajoki, Oulun Kärpät Hockey Team, Northern Finland’s biggest festival Qstock, Europcar, Biltema, Bittium and the University of Oulu.
Luova toimisto Ranka, founded in 2014, is a creative agency focused on marketing strategies and ad agency services. Its customers include student housing association Pohjois-Suomen opiskelija-asuntosäätiö, Pudasjärvi Development Ltd and Visit Oulu.
20.1.2020 - news
Eränkävijät (Love of the Wild, original Finnish series) was awarded its third Golden Venla at the Finnish Television Academy’s annual Venla Gala on January 17th, 2020. This time, the series was chosen as the Best Lifestyle Program of 2019. Earlier, Eränkävijät has won the Best TV Program 2017 and Best Performer 2018 awards, by popular vote. The Best Lifestyle Program is chosen by the Television Academy’s professional jury.
Eränkävijät premiered on YLE TV1 in 2016. The fourth season aired in the autumn of 2019, followed by Love of the Wild – From the Alps to the Arctic, an international version of the series that follows nature lifestyle in five European countries. The fifth season of the Finnish original series premieres in the autumn of 2020, and a second season of the international series is in production.
14.1.2020 - news
Award-winning production house NTRNZ media has started the production of a new, six-part documentary series about battles in the Arctic areas during the second World War. Distribution rights have already been sold to Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Filming begins in summer 2020 and takes place in Finland and Europe, as well as North America.
The battles in the Arctic areas have never been covered on this scale. The general public has not known about the impact they had on world history. I also think it’s important to remind people about the most violent war in human history so that history will never repeat itself.
Executive producer Teemu Hostikka
The series is written by the renowned Finnish war author Mika Kulju and respected Swedish war historian, Lars Gyllenhaal. Both have written several books about battles in the northern areas. The series is narrated by actor Peter Franzén.
World War Two was more Arctic than most people are aware of. The Arctic is getting more and more important, not least because of climate change. Thus the amazing operations that took place up here are both exciting and important to learn about.
Lars Gyllenhaal
Several battlefields in the Arctic areas have remained almost untouched. The series gives new, international perspectives to the battles that took place in Finland – such as the Raate road battle – and gives the viewer an opportunity to travel through time, into history.
Mika Kulju
The ambitious documentary series has already evoked international attention. In Finland, the series is broadcasted by the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle.
This is a very significant project. In addition to high-quality drama series, international streaming services are investing in documentary series. To respond to this challenge we need series with many different partners and investors. This one is backed by all the broadcasting companies in the Nordics, except Iceland. The quality must, of course, be high, and NTRNZ has already proven its ability to produce international quality.
Ari Ylä-Anttila, Commissioner, Yle
The production is expected to be completed at the end of 2021.
NTRNZ media is a creative house specialised in content production and marketing. One of our core values is respect for pure Northern nature. NTRNZ media is best known for the tv series Eränkävijät (Love of the Wild), as well as being the marketing partner of many Northern Finnish tourism operators and known brands, such as the Oulun Kärpät Hockey Team and the biggest rock festival in northern Finland, Qstock.
Mika Kulju is an expert in Northern Finland’s war history. He has written 25 nonfiction books, 10 of which deal with northern war history. His latest book about the Winter war in Lapland (Kaksintaistelu lumessa – Lapin talvisota 1939) was published by Gummerus in 2019.
Lars Gyllenhaal is a Swedish author who writes about military history and in particular, about Swedish involvement in the wars of the 20th century.
More information:
Teemu Hostikka
NTRNZ media Oy
+358 45 639 8664
Ari Ylä-Anttila
Yle
+358 40 5034549
Love of the Wild – From the Alps to the Arctic follows the lives of five passionate nature lovers in different corners of Europe through all four seasons. The series introduces European nature, a natural way of life and cultural variations more impressively and extensively than any series before.
The main characters all live and breathe through nature, even though they come from very different surroundings. As we see concrete signs of climate change on the Alpine glaciers, also the characters in the delicate Arctic region cherish their fragile environment. And while there is a battle going on with extreme weather conditions in the coast of the Atlantic ocean, our Central European protagonists strive to maintain traditions that date back thousands of years. A dependence on wilderness is seen perhaps most concretely in Eastern Europe, where nature has provided the means for living for a long time.
Love of the Wild – From the Alps to the Arctic follows the main characters through all four seasons, presenting the big variation within nature and between people’s ways of life throughout Europe. Clean and healthy nature is a must for all the characters because of their livelihoods as well as hobbies.
The main characters come from five different countries, covering all of Europe from the Alps to the Arctic. The series is produced by NTRNZ Media, the company behind the award-winning Finnish original version of Love of the Wild (Eränkävijät).
Facts:
Season 1 premieres in 2019 in Finland
Season 2 premieres in 2021 in Finland
Season 1: 6 x 52 min
Season 2: 6 x 52 min
Format: 4K
Language: Multilanguage
Broadcaster: YLE
The theme of the award winning series’ third season is “Deeper into the wilderness”. After the amazing success story of the second season, the series dives into the most remote corners of Finnish nature, introducing wildlife and nature lifestyle in their purest form.
The third season premiered in Finland in October 2018, and international sales are starting. Äijä the dog is sensationally famous, and a second book written by Mika Kulju was published by Gummerus in September 2018.
The fourth season is currently in production.
Facts:
Premiered in October 2018
12 x 28 min
Full HD
Language: Finnish, English subtitles
Broadcaster: YLE
In spring 2016, Kalajoki Tourism Association decided to revamp their marketing efforts. Some significant innovations and investments were taking place in the area, but Kalajoki had forgotten about tourists. The images of this magnificent district relied on the past, and the ways used to tell people about the renewed Kalajoki were not functioning properly.
In spring 2016, NTRNZ media revamped the visual expression, with the traditional logo continuing as the foundation of the area’s image. Our main message was encapsulated on the basis of a questionnaire sent to the enterprises in the area and interviews conducted on site. All planning and designs took into account all the services available at the resort and their competitive advantages over the competition. The end result was a multimedia campaign launched in early summer 2016 with the theme “Conquer Kalajoki”.
Media selections were made by NTRNZ media in cooperation with the Kalajoki Tourism Association. For the television and VOD campaigns, we dug up a song by the legendary Finnish singer Tapani Kansa called “Kalajoen Hiekat” (Kalajoki Sand Dunes), which was combined with the modern and youthful visual narrative. Over the summer, Kalajoki was visible in the largest printed media, nationwide in its television campaign, on the streets of Tampere, and globally with its revamped website. The brainstormed entirety for the trade fair stand supported the message conveyed by other media. The billboards in the area were also renewed in one fell swoop.
The end result was summer 2016 becoming the best ever summer experienced by Kalajoki. During some of the busiest weekends, everything was fully booked, and there literally was not even enough room to pitch a tent. We received many thanks from so many entrepreneurs in the region, as the marketing campaign was immediately apparent with the abundance of customers. The outstanding results obtained continues with marketing efforts for 2017 and 2018.
In 2018, Kalajoki made a national record in the increased amount of overnight stays in July.
Northern Finland’s biggest and most beautiful festival, Qstock approached NTRNZ media in 2015. The festival was looking for a new advertising agency partner for designing visual expression and implementing video production. The festival renews its image every year, which means both a dream come true as well as worst nightmare for the advertising agency: each year needs a new and contemporary image, but this nevertheless has to be in line with the material earlier produced. A challenge our team welcomed with open arms!
The carefully selected theme for Qstock 2016 was “Ancient Egypt”. We were seeking recognisable colour themes from the Indian Summer theme of the previous year, to which we introduced ancient Egyptian symbols. The renewal of the visual identity was a huge project, including everything from websites to drawing festival maps, designing stage textiles to publishing festival leaflets, admission tickets and VIP passes to taping the iconic Qstock van.
For the festive year of 2017, we were even braver with the colour scheme. This time we were after a more flamboyant and distinctive visual expression than in previous years. The visual image was also used for marketing the festive year. The visual expression was created using an eruption of colour and distinctive drawings, which gave Qstock a visual identity that was distinctly different from the other large festivals. The renewal of the visual image once more covered everything from printed media to online materials and from festival to television.
The summer of 2018 was inspired by the abundant range of summer colors that mirrors the event itself.
The Qstock Festival tickets were sold in advance in 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2018 the festival also made a visitor record.
Magic in Lapland is a 5-part TV series about northern nature and world class illusions. The series is produced by award winning Finnish team with international experience. Magic in Lapland is currently under production, and will premiere in 2019. The series is available for broadcasters and distributors.
Facts:
5 x 24 min
Format: 4K
Language: English
Broadcaster: Available for distribution world wide
Our long-standing client Uniresta came up with the idea of creating a revolutionary restaurant concept for Oulu. The point of departure was healthy, natural, high-quality and tasty food for busy city folk. In addition to serving lunches and plentiful salad selections, they also serve delicatessen products ranging from smoothies to sandwiches.
A brand had to be created for the concept, and NTRNZ media became involved from the outset with brainstorming the name. We created the concept “From Health to Organic”, which was then shortened as H2O for the logo. The visual expression was designed to correspond to the foundations of the restaurant concept with a strong focus on healthy, natural local food.
H2O’s visual identity was implemented by NTRNZ as an entirety that included brainstorming graphic appearance, interior design, colour range, pictures, taping and signs. Already during the design stages, the scaling of the concept facilitated the potential addition of new restaurants. Now H2O has become a chain operating throughout the city of Oulu and is quickly expanding further afield.
The second season of Love of the Wild was a jackpot in Finnish television industry. The series won the Golden Venla Award for Best Program of the Year 2017 by public vote, the main prize of the most most valued gala in Finnish TV industry.
The audience loved the authenticity of the main characters, and Äijä the dog became the most famous dog in Finland. He even went to the Golden Venla gala to receive the trophy for Best Program.
The second season introduced a new main character, and the series was sold worldwide to over 30 countries. In autumn 2017, the Love of the Wild book written by Mika Kulju was published by Gummerus publishing house.
Facts:
Premiered in autumn 2017
Best program of the Year, Golden Venla Gala
12 x 28 min
Full HD
Language: Finnish, English subtitles
Broadcaster: YLE
NTRNZ media has been a partner to Oulun Kärpät Hockey Team since 2004.
Main coach Mikko “Mamba” Manner launched the keywords “Quick, strong and reliable” on which the whole identity of the team is built. The words also reflect the team’s spirit, playing method and level of personal commitment.
Season 2018-2019 introduces a series of videos presenting the players’ personas. The video series is created by Kärpät in cooperation with Uros Ltd and produced by NTRNZ. Like before, we’re responsible for video content in the game events, as well as graphic design in the marketing materials and the team’s social media.
Love of the Wild was the first full TV series produced by NTRNZ media Ltd, and in 2015-2016 the biggest project we had. The series turned out to be a success story right from the beginning. It is something that has never been seen before in northern Finnish content production.
Love of the Wild is a 12-part reality/lifestyle series commissioned by Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE. It depicts a nature-loving lifestyle and modern-day hunting and fishing in the wild.
The first season was broadcast on YLE’s TV1 in autumn 2016. Each episode of the series was watched by an average of 15% of Finland’s population (Online Areena service + television). Each episode shown on YLE’s TV1 on Sunday evening managed to attract an average of 10% of Finland`s population.
The first season is sold world wide to over 30 countries by YLE Sales.
Facts:
Premiered in autumn 2016
12 x 28 min
Full HD
Language: Finnish, English subtitles
Broadcaster: YLE
NTRNZ media has been granted funding for internationalisation and developing our IPR business from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The themes for structural funds during 2014-2020 are sustainable development, low-carbon energy sources, gender equality and equality.
Respect for nature is one of NTRNZ’s fundamental values and reflected in everything we do. Within the project we will map out the requirements set for content by international distribution channels in the changing media industry. In addition, we strive for a Europe-wide production network.
We are growing fast. World, here we come!
