A dreadful coverwrap
So here’s how The Sydney Morning Herald will look on news stands this morning.
It’s hard to tell who’s the winner here, as the image looks (unintenionally, I’m sure) more like the paper’s been the victim of some last minute piece of dramatic censorship.
Not the editorial – which is of course the price one pays for selling a cover wrap.
I’m not sure that the brand gains very much from it either. Not til the paper is opened, at the very least.
I guess it kind of catches your eye, as you wonder what the hell is going on.
Sure is eye catching.
But has it devalued the effect of a real censorship incident in the future, should one take place?
Maybe they’re struggling to sell ads. Having to give more for less.
Fuckups are always eye catching…
hmm, tough for them to ‘win’…options for creative, dynamic executions are somewhat limited in press. They certainly don’t give these away, Mastercard would have paid a pretty penny for this
Not only coverwraps, they (I’m assuming the SMH, around here it’s The Age) have been putting post-it notes over their own mastheads. Given that the most effective ad for a newspaper is … the newspaper, you have to wonder why they mess so clumsily with their own brands. It’s the equivalent of, say, a car company renting out space in its ads for a chewing gum promotion. It also screams of management that knows nothing about marketing.
wow the horrible intrusive ads they do online are making it to their print version now. well done.
It was f#cking appalling. I have the SMH home delivered and it was all mangled anyway.
It was trying to be so avant garde it was merely painful.
Which begs the question: do Mastercard have a clue? Or do they just want to piss everyone off?
I don’t think many of us have forgotten that diabolical TV ad a few years ago where they overdubbed a clearly American baseball game and tried to make it look like cricket at the SCG. Blech!
Do these people not learn? Are they stupid? I will never use a Mastercard ever!
Grumpy broadsheet readers…
Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Someone’s backside will get kicked for this.
Hard.
“hmm, tough for them to ‘win’…options for creative, dynamic executions are somewhat limited in press. ”
Bollocks they are.
If you can’t come up with a “creative, dynamic execution” on a full page full colour in a broadsheet you probably need to get out of advertising.
I read the herald this morning and couldn’t have told you who the ad was for until I read it here. It was annoying enough to make me grumble, but not enough to actually read it. Regardless of impact on the papers brand, it seems a pretty poor ad buy for Mastercard.
Great idea Jape …. I’m calling Holden about my new concept car … the Wrigleydore!
Sack the agency – total mess up…
Hey tim,
I agree with you, but I quite liked the Prado ‘tracing paper’ wrap this morning – it’s not going to make me buy the car, but it defintely made me notice and look at it
cheers
m
Erm, it’s not transparent and certainly not ‘clear’ to make the headline work. It’s rubbish .
Hi Sam,
You’re in the wrong post. Try this one: https://mumbrella.com.au/transparent-smh-great-but-late-12256
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
The SMH might be good at convincing agencies to spend clients money but it counts for nothing if they can’t deliver a paper on time. Ask newsagents. It’s beyond a joke. My guy has to two do runs in the mornings now… the telegraph, then an hour or more later the SMH (when he has to shut the shop) Patience is running very thin
wow – tough crowd.