A couple of weeks a go we decided to put more money in to advertising one of our gigs, paying over $500 to get colour posters printed and had Profile Plus distribute our posters all over town which cost more money.
This was two weeks before the gig when the posters went up. A few people I knew had seen them in the streets and said "saw your posters".. so that was all good.
Two days later, I see that our posters are gone and new posters had been stuck up, advertising a cd compilation that had just come out. Two days later, I happend to be walking past a spot where our posters had been and Profile Plus were posting up MORE posters over top of the ones they stuck up a few days before.
They didn't actually give me an explanation for posting over them. They just said they still had some which they could put back up.
I was just wondering if anyone had found anything dodgy with them?
Some posters I see up are up for a couple of weeks. Others are up for one day or two.
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I have heard some grumbling about ...
I have heard some grumbling about poster companies and their activities... pasting up multiple copies of the same poster on top of eachother... pasting over anyone else's posters, hence perpetuating their monopoly... but the rumours are not confirmed.
Would be interested to hear what actually goes on, though.
yeah i've seen SF pasting channel Z ...
yeah i've seen SF pasting channel Z posters over the same channel Z posters... i've also had experience where if i give them 100 posters i see about 10 on cuba st three days before the gig and then none the day before. maybe we had blanket coverage in kingston and the hutt valley?
i think postering is on on-going war, i think there's waaaay to many corporates wanting poster space and in welly central i doubt there's enough space for them all to go up. so naturally they go up on top of each other.
something else that's been noticed not just by me but others in welly is that if you're a well-known band, you'll get poster coverage over someone lesser-known, and if you get the venue to organise the postering, invariably you get way better coverage.
wherever there is a monopoly, there will be dissent.
i'm going to have to start chowing ...
i'm going to have to start chowing down pies, to match my icon. :D
bastards ripping off posters and ...
bastards ripping off posters and posting(note pun) over them