Browsing: banks

News
Sharing is caring: The Co-operative Bank trumpets its profit sharing and mobile app
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When banks advertise they usually try to act as if they’re our friends, saying they want us to get the most out of their services, pushing all the opportunities they can offer us – like new homes or successful business start ups. The Co-operative bank has taken a more honest approach saying what banks really want from us and how easy it is to leave that behind and join its bank, and has enlisted the help of a snappy reptilian (or crocodilian to be exact) named Brian to get the message across. We also look into banking profits and ad spend, courtesy of PwC and Nielsen.

Opinion
The Year in Review: Denise Goodwin
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While Volkswagen dominates overseas, research showed that Kiwis thought the brand was too cold, too bland and too European. So to change that, it invested heavily in indigenous research and advertising, launched some very successful new products and quickly went from ‘niche street to main street’. National marketing manager Denise Goodwin opines on the year that was.

News
Kiwibank’s dirty money
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It’s a bit of a lolly scramble in bank land at the moment, and we mentioned a few of the overtures National Bank competitors received from competing banks last week. But Kiwibank and Ogilvy have turned on the Barry White, lit a few candles and, with a challenger brand twinkle it their eyes, set about wooing Kerre Woodham.

News
Banks to National Bank customers: ‘Pick me! Pick me!’
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TSB managed to get itself on TV remarkably quickly after the announcement of the National Bank/ANZ fusion with a message aimed directly at the customers who see the rebrand as an opportunity to switch. And, as expected, the rest of the banks were close behind with their own various overtures.