Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Wellington Airport's rebranding exercise: And the point is?

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I’m not a shareholder in Wellington Airport but if I was, I’d be getting up on my hind legs at the next annual meeting to object to an extra...
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Friday, July 9, 2021

Funding our own indoctrination

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A couple of weeks ago I was confronted by an unusually puerile full-page advertisement in the local paper. I say “unusually” because it goes...
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Monday, May 17, 2021

The advertising industry's suspiciously sudden embrace of diversity

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Noticed anything different about TV commercials lately? Take a look at the people in them. They used to be overwhelmingly white – in fact ...
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Friday, November 8, 2019

Second thoughts on peak lunacy

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There have been a couple of occasions recently when I speculated that we had reached peak lunacy in the so-called culture wars. It turns o...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

It's Kevin Roberts' turn to be thrown to the wolves

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I’m no fan of Kevin Roberts. He’s a tireless self-promoter whose talent for bullshit is breathtaking even by advertising industry standards...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Taking us for a ride with our own cash

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , January 28.) We have a pronounced aversion to TV commercials in our house...
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Friday, June 25, 2010

A small country with a big inferiority complex

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(First published in the Curmudgeon column, The Dominion Post , June 22.) ONE OF our least attractive national characteristics was on display...