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Opinion | Features
Can sport save Ten?
First there was the Grand Prix. Next came the reported $500m bid for cricket rights, then Ten secured the 2014 winter Olympics. So, can sport save the ailing network? In a feature that first appeared in Encore, Nic Christensen investigates.The television sports rights bidding process is a bit like a game of poker.
Check, fold or bet. Those were the options for the Ten Network last week when it had to finalise its bid for the cricket rights.
Andy Lark: good for the marketing of marketing
I can still remember the first story I wrote about Andy Lark, when it emerged that he was to be the new chief marketing officer of CommBank.
It was immediately clear that Australia was about to meet an interesting marketer, one who blogged and tweeted and thanks to his time at Dell in the US was digitally savvy. Even two years ago, that was a big deal. The fact that he also had a stint in public relations gave him an absolutely intriguing background before he even arrived.
Storming the media barricades - advice for young journalists
This week Mumbrella’s Nic Christensen, who began his career four years ago, gave the keynote address to would-be journalists at the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance’s Student Day. This is an edited version of his speech.Good afternoon, I can remember distinctly the last time I was in this room.
It was 2009 and I was sitting where you are. I’d come to this event, a friend and myself — from memory we sat up the back — and I can remember at the time wondering if I’d ever get a job as a journalist.
It was only four years ago and then as now getting a job was ultra competitive but I’m not sure there was quite as much media ‘doom and gloom’ as there is now…
Paywalls will help fund campaigning journalism
In this guest post, News Limited’s group editorial director Campbell Reid responds to the views of ninemsn’s Hal Crawford that the company’s push into metered paywalls is about data rather than dollars.Hal Crawford is both right and wrong in his article which argued that our digital subscription plans are all about the data.
Fake it 'til you make it... as a features editor
Cosmo’s Kate Leaver tells us how to bluff it in her job in a feature that first appeared in Encore.What do you do, as a features editor?
Really, play with words and ideas all day. At any one time, we’re working across three issues of the mag – getting one on its way to the printers, pooling all the words together for another, and planning the issue after that. It’s busy but it’s a pretty magnificent process.
Savage counsel - JFDI
Hi Chris,I run a medium-sized agency that is doing pretty well. As the leader, I am finding my workload just seems to go up and up. I am struggling to stay motivated and particularly to tackle the bigger and tougher challenges I have to face every day. How do I keep up the energy when there just seems so much to do? How do you do it?
Productive, successful executives are those able to consistently tackle difficult and big challenges. It’s a constant struggle for me so I know how you feel. How do the successful leaders do it?
Q&A with Brett Clegg
Brett Clegg, group director – business media, Fairfax Media, in a Q&A that first appeared in Encore, on the journo who refuses to work with him – his wife.Who is the most powerful person in Australian media and why?
Hard to go past Rupert Murdoch. He controls the single largest and most diverse portfolio and is intent on leveraging its scale (and, of course, influence). He’s an innovator and his will to win is obvious to all.
The experiential experience
Anyone can throw up a tent in a high-traffic area and harass the general public, but what does it take to pull off an effective experiential event? In a piece that first appeared in Encore, Matt Smith investigates.A television commercial can easily be muted and ignored, but try ignoring a purring, squirming cat in your arms. That was the experience awaiting passers by in Sydney’s Martin Place in October last year when Mars Petcare built Whiskas Kitten Palace.
The News Limited paywall isn't about revenue. It's about data
In this guest post, ninemsn’s editor in chief Hal Crawford argues Fairfax Media and News Limited’s new paywalls won’t draw much revenue, but will generate data. And they’re late to the data party.When I first learned that ninemsn’s major digital competitors Fairfax and News Ltd were going to introduce paywalls across their mainstream properties, I was excited.
Every obstacle thrown in the way of their audiences is an opportunity. People hate friction and anything that makes life difficult on a rival site is a chance to get them on yours.
Is this the worst time to be a journalist?
With scores of redundancies in 2012 and a mass exodus of experienced journos, is this the worst time to be a journalist? In a feature that first appeared in Encore, Nic Christensen asks the question.In June last year a tsunami of redundancies began to sweep across Australia’s media landscape. They came in a series of waves and in the 12 months that followed, an estimated 1,200 journalists departed the mainstream media.
Are you a conscious leader?
As the advertising and marketing industry struggles to address the issue of rocketing rates of staff churn in their businesses, Slingshot CEO Simon Rutherford argues that today’s ‘conscious leaders’ should be more focussed on creating ‘staff wellness’ in order to deliver high performing teams and healthy profits.
A conscious leader believes the business has a greater responsibility towards the community it operates in. To ensure sustainable long-term profits, people must come first. Awareness, trust, authenticity, transparency, 100% responsibility, connection, compassion, and love: these are the tools of the conscious leader.
Suits: less popular than pest controllers
Advertising suits have a thankless job that is currently being eroded by the changing industry says Naren Sanghrajka in a piece that first appeared in Encore.Not in my wildest, craziest nightmares would I ever have thought I’d say this. But I’m going to. Being a bean counter is far more appealing than starting as a suit in advertising. There it is. I said it. I actually said those words.
Yes, it’s incredibly depressing. But it’s true.
An answer for Adam: What's the future for creatives?
Each fortnight, Adam Ferrier poses a question to the industry. This week, he asks about the future of the creative.
Who or what is a creative? It’s an old thought, but as I continue on my merry journey in advertising I wonder if there is a role for a ‘creative’ and if there is, what that role is?
In the world of film and TV there is not a ‘creative’. There is a director, a writer, a producer, a DOP and so on. From this mix the creativity happens. But no-one is charged with being ‘the creative’.
Australian films stand on their own merit
The argument that Australian audiences only embrace local films once they’ve picked up a gong at an international festival is inherently flawed says Lee Zachariah in a piece that first appeared in Encore.As much as we like to pretend that we collectively fulfil the world’s need for a country comprised entirely of laid-back, mellow beach dwellers, we do seem to get disproportionately excited when someone else mentions us. Our cool exterior drops away as our local news bulletins breathlessly report that CNN or the BBC or really anyone in one of the ‘real countries’ acknowledged our existence.
We feel detached from the world, and therefore crave its validation.
The vindication of Paul Fishlock
Wow.You may have noticed that not much went up on Mumbrella over the last couple of hours.
That’s because I’ve been reading the judge’s findings in Paul Fishlock’s case against The Campaign Palace.
I’d always known that agencyland can be a brutal place. But the picture of the cynical, ego-driven, unsentimental world that comes through in the findings of Justice John Sacker is something else. I recommend you take the time to read it yourself.
The reputation of Young & Rubicam’s global creative director Tony Granger certainly takes a battering in my view. The word “bully” is a hard one to come back from.
And former Campaign Palace CEO Mark Mackay comes across as someone you might think twice about either hiring or working for, based on the evidence presented. The judge calls him contemptuous of both Granger and Fishlock.
Backpack bomb hoax features in new CommBank Olympics promo
The guard wrestles for the suspicious backpack
CommBank has moved into controversial territory with its latest online promotion featuring the bank’s mascots triggering a hoax terrorism alert.
Set outside the London Olympics volleyball on Pall Mall, it features that “C”, “A” and “N” characters tipping off a security guard that the person dressed as the letter “T” has a suspicious backpack which is “making ticking and whizzing sounds”.
The ad was uploaded onto CommBank’s YouTube channel last night. CommBank is an official Olympic sponsor.
One of the key targets for the London security operation are potential backpack bombers. On July 7, 2005, suicide bombers detonated backpack bombs killing 52 members of the public. The attack came the day after London was announced as the venue for the 2012 Olympics.
In the video, the CommBank mascots approach a security guard and report that T is “sweating profusely.”
The guard, presumably played by an actor, is then seen attempting to wrestle away the backpack.
The Can campaign is part of the new brand direction created for CommBank by M&C Saatchi which rolled out in May.
Mumbrella has invited CommBank to comment.
Terrorism hoaxes have been known to backfire. At Mumbrella360, radio presenter Brendan Jones discussed how he found himself in trouble after apparently making prank calls to the terrorism hotline. Like the CommBank ad, the call was fictional, and the person at the other end was an actor too.
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Comments
2 Aug 12
10:01 am
I think you mean the letter T has the bomb, not letter N…
2 Aug 12
10:02 am
Um, can you please fix your story. It’s the letter T that C, A and N report to the security guard, not the letter N. Was very confusing on the first read as to why N would report itself…
2 Aug 12
10:12 am
Amended
Cheers,
Colin – Mumbrella
2 Aug 12
10:17 am
LEAVE N ALONE!!
2 Aug 12
11:03 am
Keep up the good work Colin.
2 Aug 12
11:22 am
This is just stupid on Comm Banks behalf. I suppose they have a similar ‘humorous’ video planned for the anniversary of September 11.
2 Aug 12
11:35 am
Wow…. this is seriously insensitive to the families of those who lost their lives on 7/7
2 Aug 12
11:59 am
All of these “CANT” ads are appalling, just like the bank.
2 Aug 12
11:59 am
what if the letter U replaced the letter A and the four of them teamed up to screw australians out of their mortgage repayments…
2 Aug 12
12:05 pm
Offensive and disgusting. Having been in London on that day I just CAN’T believe they have gone with this creative…
2 Aug 12
12:06 pm
err ummm, can’t or the other offensive word that springs to mind. Seriously bad idea and shows no respect to people/families affected by the London bombings, how about next Bali/ 9/11…who the hell gets paid to come up with such ridiculous ideas! I want their job!!
2 Aug 12
12:07 pm
unbelievably obvious and extremely tasteless.
2 Aug 12
12:08 pm
Looking beyond the obvious sensitivity issues…I just don’t see the point. It’s not funny. It just doesn’t interest me.
If you’re going to push the boundaries and be risky, shouldn’t it be with something that’s at least good? Otherwise it’s all risk for no reward.
2 Aug 12
12:09 pm
Why does this campaign feel so half-baked?
2 Aug 12
12:09 pm
Time for mr lark to fall on his sword
2 Aug 12
12:10 pm
Just when you think these ads CANT get any worse, hmmm, I guess they sure CAN. Honestly, this campaign just gets worse and worse and it is definitely damaging their brand. I wouldnt open an account with these ‘tools’ if they paid me.
2 Aug 12
12:13 pm
Completely insensitive and unimaginative. What a ripper combination that is. Who the hell is signing this crap off?????
2 Aug 12
12:15 pm
Wow – how can such a crap idea with such huge PR risks associated with this ever be approved. Heads will roll. I’ll give this 60 minutes until its the lead story on news.com.au.
Meanwhile – the James Magnusson Comm Bank ads are woeful – especially considering his poor form in the pool. Poking fun of our best athlete about potential poor performance when he is actually performing under his best is seriously questionable.
Who is running this campaign?
2 Aug 12
12:15 pm
I’m looking forward to their funny Bali Bombing ad. That will be sooo edgy and cool.
2 Aug 12
12:17 pm
What will be their next ‘bright spark’ moment be? Machine guns at a theatre? The ad agency responsible for this creative has seriously lost the plot, and CBA are the fools who continue to pay for this dreadful campaign. Talk about brand damage???? How long do you flog a dead horse?
2 Aug 12
12:18 pm
Seems strange that they moved so quickly from the earnest Toni Collette faux inspiring poetry to very quickly focusing on some funny looking guys dressed up as letters, and now on to Chaser style stunts. I’m confused about what they’re trying to do?
2 Aug 12
12:21 pm
Fail.
2 Aug 12
12:23 pm
why were Justin and Deena so keen to get the clarity of the story right? Is it cause they’re both tin eared buffoons employed by the same mouthbreathers who thought a backpack bomb joke would be a funny ad for a bank?
2 Aug 12
12:23 pm
This is offensive and not even funny. Would it be ok to do the same prank in Bali? How would the Aussie families who lost loved ones in the Bali bomb feel?
2 Aug 12
12:24 pm
How does a bomb-hoax creative line up with Andy Lark’s supposed strategy …
“Mr Lark told Mumbrella: “During our research, the message we got was that all through these life events the bank helps me move forward. We said how do we really stand for something in people’s lives and articulate our role in helping them move forward in life’s journey?”
CAN is a nice idea but someone at M&C and CBA has lost sight of what they are trying to achieve if they think this is in anyway on-strategy.
A disappointed CBA customer.
2 Aug 12
12:25 pm
Oh dear ! Who is approving this crap?
I thought that the campaign might have evolved to show how a big bank might listen to its customers, and this campaign to communicate how it had listened and changed for the better. What was dumb just got much dumber !
It just reaffirms to me that our banking oligopoly makes far too much easy money, and that people running these marketing campaigns can waste it so flagrantly.
If banking was a category like most others where there were 100′s of options for the consumer, such waste would be unforgivable.
2 Aug 12
12:25 pm
Not sure what brand benefit this ad achieves for the CBA… pretty crooked corporate messaging if you ask me… and until now I have been quite a fan of the CAN campaign
2 Aug 12
12:27 pm
A disgusting use of an extremely sensitive topic with no relevance to the banks offering unless it’s a reflection of how insensitive their staff will be to customers. It’s a half baked campaign and this is the worst iteration of it.
Have agencies working on financial services been flogged to such an extent that they have to resort to cheap, ill thought out controversy accompanied by weak campaigns where they change the lettering of a word to diametrically change it’s meaning (Amex, CBA) It’s not clever thinking either creatively or strategically and it certainly doesn’t make me want me to change my banking habits and in this last execution is simply offensive.
2 Aug 12
12:27 pm
Management must be wankers to allow crap like this…..is it meant to be funny…or reflective on an insipid brand, starved for ideas.
2 Aug 12
12:27 pm
Tired, boring and insensitive.
2 Aug 12
12:33 pm
I’ve watched that spot a few times, trying to discover what response it was attempting to elicit from the viewer. Still nothing: rather like an amoeba eating blancmange.
2 Aug 12
12:33 pm
As a combank customer this is enough to make me leave the bank. Focused on customer service hey? This demonstrates no empathy for people, a foundation for relationships and customer service.
As a person working in comms, I think I’ve got a good sense of humour and applaud advertisers who take a risk, but to the com bank team – you are well off the mark. I would love to know what the insight was for this?
Keep rocking it London.
2 Aug 12
12:46 pm
Insensitive, immature and pathetic. What a bunch of c*nts.
2 Aug 12
12:49 pm
What complete idiots. Laughing at terrorism to sell a bank. Nice.
2 Aug 12
12:50 pm
Stunned beyond belief…
Colin, please follow up with CBA and/or M&C to get an explanation as to why they think this kind of material is appropriate.
2 Aug 12
12:58 pm
Hopefully Andy Lark is firing them all right now.
I like the way he has a beard just like a real bomber. Nice touch.
Of course, if there is an actual bombing at the Olympics, like those on 7/7 the day after London’s win was announced this will become a true classic in monster f*** ups.
Should make the press in the UK though – brilliant!
2 Aug 12
1:00 pm
Totally offensive, tasteless crap!
I hope they are going to apologise…
2 Aug 12
1:11 pm
Name one good CommBank ad you’ve seen on Telly in the past 60 yrs.
go on then.
You can’t.
This one though is also tasteless and thoughtless.
2 Aug 12
1:18 pm
Doesn’t make me want to open a CommBank account
2 Aug 12
1:19 pm
Run for your Life whan you hear the Term “Moving Forward”……it means we have treated you as dopes till now….even better, “the Experience when Banking” will be next.
All Wank Words meaning F/all!
2 Aug 12
1:24 pm
I second the fail
2 Aug 12
1:26 pm
Bad move… jokes about suicide bombers are never good taste…
2 Aug 12
1:38 pm
Those working on this campaign have obviously never lived in London and felt fear when travelling to and from home. The Commonwealth Bank should know better!
2 Aug 12
1:47 pm
Looks like Jolly to London to me. hmm.
2 Aug 12
1:49 pm
According to Michael Moore et al, everytime there’s a terrorist attack, banks profit from it.
2 Aug 12
1:53 pm
You just Can’t do that
2 Aug 12
1:58 pm
Wow – a campaign that started off twee (that poem, ugh) has ended up downright disgraceful.
There’s nothing remotely funny about a faux backpack terrorist at the Olympics, and I have no idea why CBA would want to be associated with that image.
Especially not after the social media world has been laughing at their expense for the ‘T’ who seems to have nailed Maggy’s poor form well in advance of the Games.
To use an overused cliche, epic fail.
2 Aug 12
2:00 pm
Disgusting.
I have a crap load of money stored with Commonwealth at the mo. I think I might pull it out based on this awful idea.
I wonder if this horrible concept will get picked up by the UK press, or indeed the US press?
Wait! I think I can hear the Channel 7 helicopter…
2 Aug 12
2:00 pm
1. The agency are fcking hopeless to be serving this shite up as a ‘good idea’
2. The client (including Mr Lark) are bloody morons for approving it.
3. It’s like they feel like they need to get more value out of the big foam letters they paid money for…. it’s unbelievable. None of this campaign makes sense or works together – at all.
It looks like Gruen just got their content for next weeks episode.
2 Aug 12
2:10 pm
I want my monthly account fee refunded.
2 Aug 12
2:55 pm
A very worthwhile 6 mins.
2 Aug 12
2:56 pm
What idiot thought it was a good idea to play on the heart strings of a city previously terrorised by bombers.
2 Aug 12
3:00 pm
I was living in London when the bus and tube bombs went off. This will go down like Satan farting in Westminster Abbey.
2 Aug 12
3:12 pm
You’re all taking yourselves way too seriously. It’s humor and our ability to not take ourselves to seriously that sets us Aussie’s apart and makes us so resilient.
Clearly this is intended for humor and Comm Bank would never intend it to offend.
You will be the people crying out next week that we live in a nanny state when the next politician calls for censorship of something.
Relax and enjoy life! Smile. I for one am wrapped to see a bank take risks!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t mention the war – that’s exactly what terrorists want.
2 Aug 12
3:17 pm
I think there’s an undercurrent of misunderstanding around mental health. This contrary and negative T is the constant butt of his supposed mates jokes. This poor loner should be embraced, not thrown in jail.
If Commbank had a shred of decency they’d get T the help he clearly needs and thrash C, A an N with a leather belt in front of the rest of the alphabet.
2 Aug 12
3:26 pm
Having experienced the London bombings first hand, I find this ad to be in bad taste and not at all funny. Funny or not – I’m not sure it’s all that appropriate.
2 Aug 12
3:44 pm
@John
You’re right.
It’s part of a series – the next one features Gary Glitter and the one after has an exploding A380 in it.
They’re hilarious. Can’t wait.
2 Aug 12
3:58 pm
It’s very hard to make everyone like a bank. And everyone on this post
should know that all the people at the bank and M&C are working really hard
on this campaign, and are trying their best, and that is what is most important.
2 Aug 12
4:11 pm
Gee…anyone with half a brain can work out that they meant the letter T and not the letter N – go do some work.
2 Aug 12
4:28 pm
@Mrs Lark
- Either you are actually Mrs Lark. Or, you are avin a laugh innit!
Anonymous comment 57:
- Well done. I like your style guvnor!
“Which Bank?”
- I always thought of w@nk
Now all I can think of when I see the CommBank brand is:
- C*nt
Why don’t Commbank (who lets face it, do not really need to plaster themselves all over traditional media considering they have ATM’s in every nook and cranny in Oz) place their efforts and cash ramping up their service and products. People will talk about the great new Commbank and be Commbank’s very own marketeers through social word of mouth. How about “use a commbank atm for free, whoever you bank with” (That would do it!!)
I bought some pretty expensive goods this week online from a supplier I had never heard of before. Before purchasing, I got into some forums to ensure they were ok and user reviews were good about the supplier. The price point was pretty good, better than some but not all. Their service was fantastic and the user reviews on various independent sites raved about them. They got my business, the goods arrived in 2 days (I was told it would be min 3 days.) I will recommend them to others.
Why should banking products and services be any different? I scratch my head as to why these large corporates aint getting it? Top heavy execs, like at Channel Nine perhaps?
Less of the silly traditional marketing waste and spend on getting your house in order Commbank!!! Vodafone in Australia needs to do this also.
2 Aug 12
4:55 pm
it’s very hard to make everyone like a bank – are you serious…ok how about…not charging stupid unnessecary fees or hold on, how about I can take my OWN money out of ANY ATM and not pay a charge for it, there’s 2 things that they could change immediately and that alone would improve PR for ANY bank….making Banks ‘liked’ never easy but with the right thinking and creative possible…oh OK they are working hard so that’s OK….I’ll ignore the extremly bad taste about my home City and laugh about it….REALLY!!?
2 Aug 12
5:39 pm
If this is what M&C’s creative “talent” (and i am using enormous air quotes there) think is clever, on brand and passable as a campaign then CBA should be sacking them and the entire marketing team along with it.
Massivley insensitive. Enourmously stupid and a giant waste of thier customers and shareholders money.
Wake up CBA, your a bunch of C*NT’s
2 Aug 12
5:52 pm
If your going to make a joke about a bombing at the Olympics, in the City that faced one of it’s worst real bombings in it’s history, on the day the event was announced… Well not only are you doing something stupid and insensitive, but something that will require your joke to be at least good, if anyone is to defend it.
This is just shit. They need to put the ‘T’ back.
John thinks “You’re all taking yourselves way too seriously. It’s humor and our ability to not take ourselves to seriously that sets us Aussie’s apart and makes us so resilient”.
How do you think this ad would play out if the ‘T’ was trying to get into a Bali Nightclub?
2 Aug 12
8:35 pm
I would listen to Mr T very seriously. He has been right about everything else in these ads.
2 Aug 12
9:53 pm
That’s just stupid. Really stupid.
3 Aug 12
1:08 am
@John – No one likes an F-squad damage control cheerleader, I will offer my professional services to you for free on this one – sit down and shut the fuck up (on behalf of every Australian that you just attempted to throw on CommBank/M&C’s HILARIOUS fire).
@MrsLark – While I can appreciate the civil tone of your comment, I can’t appreciate the content.
Are you human?
At the end of the day THE MOST IMPORTANT THING is not money, it’s not a bank and it most certainly isn’t advertising. Fundamentally, the most important thing is to be good to your fellow man/woman, there are a whole lot of intricacies in the word “good” including, showing respect, consideration and compassion.
CBA violated and exploited a tragedy, they should be ashamed and M&C… is there a soul in that vacuous cavern? Because there certainly isn’t any creative integrity.
MrsLark, as someone who has many years of extensive experience spearheading ways to “make people like” brands that range from loveable through to less-than-loveable multi-billion $ corporations, let me tell you this…
It is very hard to make most people like most things. That is the nature of the game.
I am sure they are “working really hard”.
So please, pass along the message that at this point, everyone (except for John, naturally he wants his check) just wants them to stop “working really hard”.
Seriously, do CBA, the country and London a favour and just stop.
Working really hard doesn’t mean you’re doing well or doing the right thing.
It is a hard and cold reality.
Stop and reevaluate because this ad demonstrated nothing but a complete disconnection from not only customers but human beings.
3 Aug 12
7:48 am
stupid. offensive. insensitive. dangerous. to infinity + 1
3 Aug 12
8:39 am
Bunch of wankers if you ask me. They have a CAN advert but then when it comes to dropping mortgage rates they CAN”T. Get stuffed. Like to know what they have to say about that. Worst bank around. Like to see what they have to say for themselves. Save your advertising, cut the mortgage rates!
3 Aug 12
10:10 am
I like it & the campaign a lot — a big step up from the disjointed Goodby work
3 Aug 12
10:13 am
@ Pardon me
Very nicely put. This is an example of the side of adland, which (as others have mentioned on here before) proves why ad execs are ranked second to bankers with regards to the good they do for society. Nurses and teachers are polar opposites (as you can imagine.)
Times are certainly changing though. The power of the people via social networks is giving them an ultra loud voice.
Could we see some start up banks revolutionising retail banking? (Just like smart retailers are showing the old mob how it is done in shopping?)
I would ditch my bank for sure.
3 Aug 12
2:43 pm
@ Rachel, are you for real? I think you must be the only person in the country that actually likes this campaign…. It has gone from BAD to Worse…. and to make matters even worse, CBA refuse to listen to the masses when we are warning them about the brand damage it is actually doing. I have completely lost sight of what the CBA are actually trying to say, and I think they have too. I just cringe when I hear the CAN and CANT bullshit on TV now or see it in bus shelters…. It actually makes me feel sick! I would never be a customer with this bank now due to their stupity with their marketing dollars, I would hate to think what else my money as a shareholder was supporting???? Why dont you actually get real as a bank, and instead of wasting $$$ on very bad ‘brand damaging’ campaigns, ad execs ego’s and your own, why not make your bank the best bank ever by actually listening to your customers, abolishing some ridiculous fee’s and actually being a leader in this field??? Hey, it really isnt rocket science you dickheads.
5 Aug 12
3:56 pm
I wonder if “T” was, is or ever will be a CBA customer.
6 Aug 12
11:07 pm
@ rachel #69..
I assume you are either a CBA marketing person or from the agency. No-one else could say what you did.
27 Aug 12
4:23 pm
Terrorism is NOT FUNNY