Comments for StopPress

Comment on Glenda Wynyard responds to critics, bids adieu by Win & Watch

Win & Watch — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:36:50 +0000

My compass say's north…far North!

Comment on Glenda Wynyard responds to critics, bids adieu by Watch and Win

Watch and Win — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:11:23 +0000

Look how Glenda uses other peoples money and lives to curry favor and build her credibility – any one seen her? Rumor is shes skipped town

Comment on News just in: StopPress makes you rich by Richie Rich

Richie Rich — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:37:03 +0000

So we're uber-riche are we? Surely that 100k line in the sand needs to be moved. Our combined household income is well over $200k but we certainly don't feel rich

Comment on MediaCom takes up Media Counsel’s slack by Unsecured Creditor

Unsecured Creditor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:48:39 +0000

Does anyone know who the liquidators are yet? There is no mention of liquidation on the 'companies office' website!

Comment on Alt Group covered in red dots by Methven showered with praise :: StopPress :: Breaking news from New Zealand Marketing magazine

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:35:48 +0000

[...] among the world’s best (speaking of the world’s best, Auckland design outfit Alt Group picked up a few Red Dots recently [...]

Comment on The curse of the foreign eyeballs by Jenene

Jenene — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:44:20 +0000

Considering the size of your traffic, 4% is probably quite substantial.

Do you offer targeting for NZ only eyeballs? Word on the street is "no" – but that could be rumour only….

Comment on Social media: all talk, no action? by Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:10:06 +0000

Everyone's an expert because everyone uses it, perfect for hundreds of those Gen Y twits to set up shop and claim expertise because they have 200 twitter followers and 500 facebook friends.

Wrinkly hands tend to hold more control, simply because they earned it and have experience.

Most of them probably wore wayfarers and neon the first time around.

Have patience, gain some experience and eventually you'll see why they don't jump on every trend.

Nikolai was the work of experienced wrinkly hands.

Comment on Social media: all talk, no action? by the young blood

the young blood — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:33:34 +0000

There are plenty of clever people marketing themselves through social networking every day. Embarrassingly, most of them are bands, artists and small, media savvy start-ups.

Mainstream marketing is proving a little slow on the catch up.

But, you could check out the Smirnoff Nikolai campaign as an example of the kind of brand loyalty you can generate with social media. Shame WRC doesn't exist anymore.

Comment on Brand by lottery by DP

DP — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:26:09 +0000

If either the amateurs or the pros come up with anything like the Melbourne symbol my weetbix are in danger of severe immersion on the day the Herald publishes it!

Comment on Brand by lottery by Andy Jaquet

Andy Jaquet — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:03:38 +0000

Many thanks for responding Hamish, and clarifying your position. And John V for your comments. I can certainly see the PR benefit of engaging the people in this competition, but in truth my argument is not about the Super City logo or who does it. My point is do we in New Zealand take design seriously from a business perspective? We have great magazines like Idealog that extol the virtues of design to promote business and institutions like Better by Design that are trying their best to get NZ business on the world map through design. But this logo competition for New Zealand's commercial capital, the gateway for NZ exports, sends out the wrong message. And throw away line or not, Bob's comment about 'scribbles' was very unhelpful. If we are to build New Zealand's export presence, we need to do it with integrity, with design at the very heart of it.