Did Orcon think that this was really the appropriate way to market their brand at Armageddon? What is it with ISP’s and marketing campaigns in NZ?
Category Archives: NZ Business
Underpaid Kiwi executives
There are a few million dollar earning executives in NZ – and the Herald’s Owen Hembry believes that we are now on par with Australia, but that there is a gap underneath that. While we have a handful of CEO level people being paid well, there is a big payment hole in the next two …
Are journalists required online?
At least this editorial addresses the issue, but Rob O’Neill doesn’t close the loop. As Rob points out the addition of community features is no substitute for decent writing from professionals. My additional belief is that as publications move online the demand for decent editors and journalists goes up, not down. It is the printing …
Sao Paulo is billboard free…
Via Boing boing. A bunch of photos are on Flickr Will Auckland be next?
Sunday Star Times 2, NZHerald 0
First the Sunday Star Times publishes a great editorial lamenting the NZHerald’s decision to outsource their core editorial competency – the sub editors. The outsourcing, for my mind, seems to be a dumb decision made by an MBA not a newspaperman. “Subbing factories will turn out factory newspapers…. Then the Sunday Star Times also publishes …
Wasting space..
Here’s what I received from Dick Smith the other day – 3 batteries, inside a rather large, otherwise empty, box. The transaction was lousy all-round, with slow confirmation, slow delivery and appalling packaging. Lots of room for improvement here…
where are the intellectuals?in NZ?
Also in the IFR, Chris Trotter reviews a book by Laurence Simmons belaboring the dearth of NZ intellectualism. Without reading the book I’d suggest that Professor Simmons starts reading in the new frontier of intellectualism. He may not see the turgidness of ancient times, but the new wave of influencer’s are now online and blogging. …
Radio licenses
So I saw in the Independent Financial Review (not online) that the NZ Government is handing out spectrum licenses to the radio industry for 20 years for $96m. The pricing was based on estimated income for the radio stations based on a ‘cost per pair of ears’ approach. As a radio station I’d be worried …
Pago Pago Pago
Pago has the right market identified, but just keeps falling down in execution. Here’s a reminder email from them, as rendered by Outlook via web access. No logo, no <yourname>, no links as promised, no signature. How the mighty have fallen – ASB to me were always the leading edge of consumer IT, but with …
RSS feeds now on Stuff
Stuff now has RSS feeds – you can subscribe either by area (e.g. technology) or by Newspaper (Dom Post). Cool. NZHerald already has feeds.
tvnzondemand – streaming works on osx
TVNZ ondemand launched and is covered on GeekZone Forums and by Mauricio. The streaming via a flash player works on my mac, albeit with very low framerate. I even watched a minute or two of Piha Rescue (not a show I watch, and nor are any of the others which are local shows only) in …
Fairfax Digital
I’ve just been appointed Acting Head of Fairfax Digital, (Stuff), which will last until a full time appointment is announced. You’ll continue to see posts on NZ online media on this blog, but as I am now an insider at Fairfax, as well as Trade Me, I’ll be very circumspect in commenting about both institutions. …
92% of 2006 US ad spend went to 4 companies
Apparently Marketscape research released at the Online Publisher Forum in London, and reported on Online spin, said that 92% of the US spend in 2006 went to the “big four”: Google, Yahoo!, MSN and AOL. In New Zealand things are very different – with MSN arriving at the party early with xtra, Google arriving very …
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Scoopit is slow….
Scoopit is awesome, but sadly their servers(?or my ISP link to them?) are getting crushed right now, and every night, making the service essentially unusable. They have a great opportunity to grab a really important piece of NZ media real-estate – it would be a shame to lose out because of infrastructure issues. Scoopit! (go …
Netguide and Hitwise awards – are they bunk?
Netguide are running their annual awards voting. Liv mention this in her new blog – so I’ve dragged out this partially written piece…. As Liv mentions, this year Netguide want voters to register for some dodgy website (Netguide Village – not linked) that you probably have no interest whatsoever in joining. So Netguide’s business model …
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