Tuesday 27 April 2010

Doing the Telegraph wrap

The Telegraph - in the vanguard of radical revenue ideas - came up with this today. Advertising wraparounds used to be just about tolerated in free newspapers. Now our premier national broadsheet carries a wraparound for HSBC on heavy translucent paper. Astonishing. The HSBC competition, the subject of the wraparound, is also endorsed by editorial. A brave step forward in editorial commercial co-operation or a fudging of integrity? Thoughts? 

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  1. A freesheet competitor to our paper (we're the Sligo Weekender) sold their souls for a wraparound for a mobile phone company. Anecdotally there were more leftover copies of the wraparound issue than normal. People just ignored it.

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