‘Magazines are underrated, PR needs to be taken seriously and creatives are terrible at packaging design’
The magazine industry is the most underrated medium in Australia, while PR, email and packaging design are the most undervalued marketing specialities, according to industry experts.
Roger Camplisson, Initiative CEO and panellist at the Mumbrella Question Time forum, said while over the past 20 years the radio industry has held the mantle as the most underrated medium among advertisers, magazines have since taken over.
“It appears according to the billing numbers that some advertisers are leaving magazines in droves. I’m not sure that’s necessarily the case. And if they are then they’ll be back cause they’ll miss it,” he said.
“You’ve got to remember this is a media product that consumers go and buy for $5-8 every time and consume it. That doesn’t happen with most of the other media that we use to communicate so there’s got to be something in that.”
Amen to Jeremy – particularly as online worlds reshape how the media works. Marketing and PR need to work in a far more integrated way.
Methinks Jeremy is looking to buy a PR agency
NIcolas’ comments on “creatives being terrible at packaging” is a gross generalisation. While it is possible that a lot are bad at it – especially some copywriters 😉 some of us out here are old school and actually graduated from design colleges, have spent their entire careers marketing in the FMCG sector and working closely with brand managers to develop brand marques and packaging that sells.
It is probably more accurate that a lot of creatives are terrible at understanding the real business realities of retailing FMCG products!
Yeah…well when magazine’s get interesting again let me know and I’ll start buying them again.! as it stands i don’t see anything out there thats making me think i should be parting with my money, (and i LOVE magazines, i walk past the mag racks like a junkie thinking maybe just maybe there’s something out there but no, ikts SO depressing) magazines seem poorly produced today, (apart from the recession) the people who own them don’t seem to care as much as say 10 yrs ago.? content content content has become invisible.! if print thinks the web’s going to go away think again, they need to turn heads back to ink on paper, its clear thats NOT happening.