This is the worst piece of viral marketing I’ve ever seen. A colleague sent this around work and not many could finish watching it. (The YouTube version is cut down from the full length movie which can be found here: www.whoppervirgins.com) It is so wrong on so many levels. It illustrates all that is bad […]
A while back ANZ ran TV and print advertisements to demonstrate what a wonderful corporate citizen they were. The ads showed staff working in the community, and portrayed the bank as having a social conscience. No wonder they ditched the ads. Today it was announced in the SST that another 200 middle management positions will […]
The people have spoken – Hell Pizza, and presumably Colenso BBDO realised they offended the wrong people. It now appears that the “Thriller” microsite has been withdrawn. As well as being insensitive to the family of Sir Ed, I saw on the news last night they have also offended a New Zealand family by offering […]
Hell Pizza, the maverick pizza company intent on shock and offence, have released a microsite http://www.backfromthedead.co.nz/ (brought to us by Colenso BBDO). Called Happy Helloween (I guess that’s a pun) it shows Sir Edmund Hillary, the Queen Mother, and (I think) Heath Ledger, dancing to a re-mix of something that sounds like Michael Jackson’s Thriller. […]
Telecom has decided to extricate itself from the Fly Buys scheme at the end of the year saying that it wants to focus on providing better core services to it’s customers. Perhaps it’s also an indication that they are hurting financially. Their share price has taken a big tumble (along with many other stocks) and […]
RaboPlus, the only AAA bank in New Zealand launched tonight a new website. Called BankaRate it offers high interest Term Deposits on a limited basis for a limited time. In most cases the interest rate is 0.4 to 0.5% above what is offered by any other bank. The site went live at around 7pm and […]