Flag?

[bogan]

Sounds decidedly simple to me.

Simply put, my suggestion was never that it should be viewed simply as a corporate logo.

I think it should be viewed as one in addition to all the roles it performs as a flag, it is this later point you sought to trivialise by adding the 'simply' qualifier, thus changing the meaning of the suggestion to one in which you could find some mock indignation.

[mashman]

Branding is all around you. Companies do not spend millions on it for no reason, they spend millions on it because it makes them more millions.

How does it make more millions? If every "shop" had nothing but their name available, no logo etc... I would imagine people would still shop with that "shop". You sure about millions being spent on marketing and advertising really makes millions? I'm not so convinced...

But I think you know that and you are just being deliberately stupid.

[Woodman]

How does it make more millions? If every "shop" had nothing but their name available, no logo etc... I would imagine people would still shop with that "shop". You sure about millions being spent on marketing and advertising really makes millions? I'm not so convinced...

At IF.


"If" every shop was the same, but they are not all the same in the real world, you know the one we are in?. So they brand stuff and then convince people that x brand is better,cooler,faster than y brand so they sell more x brand ergo making more milions.

[oldrider]

How does it make more millions? If every "shop" had nothing but their name available, no logo etc... I would imagine people would still shop with that "shop". You sure about millions being spent on marketing and advertising really makes millions? I'm not so convinced...

Tax breaks!

[mashman]

At IF.


"If" every shop was the same, but they are not all the same in the real world, you know the one we are in?. So they brand stuff and then convince people that x brand is better,cooler,faster than y brand so they sell more x brand ergo making more milions.

@claiming to convince people .

[mashman]

Tax breaks!

Better than spending money on wages

[Katman]

Branding is all around you. Companies do not spend millions on it for no reason, they spend millions on it because it makes them more millions. But I think you know that and you are just being deliberately stupid.

If that's what you see as the purpose of a nation's flag then I think it's you that's being deliberately stupid.

[Ocean1]

I'm not so convinced...

Yeah. But it's not your money. And neither is the millions that result from marketing campaigns.

Which sort of says it all, really.

[Ocean1]

Tax breaks!

There's tax breaks in marketing costs?

Well I'll be fookt.

[mashman]

Yeah. But it's not your money. And neither is the millions that result from marketing campaigns.

Which sort of says it all, really.

It's not yours either.

Which does indeed say it all.

[Katman]

For those of you who see the purpose of a nation's flag as nothing more than a marketing ploy, I don't know whether to feel a sense of pity or total contempt.

[Woodman]

@claiming to convince people .

Now you are being deliberately stupid.

If that's what you see as the purpose of a nation's flag then I think it's you that's being deliberately stupid.

Fair call, but my stance on the flag is that I don't give a fuck what it looks like, its just a symbol on a sheet. If you want to worship symbols then go to church.

[Ocean1]

It's not yours either.

Which does indeed say it all.

Correct.

Glad to see you can admit you're wrong for a change.

[Ocean1]

For those of you who see the purpose of a nation's flag as nothing more than a marketing ploy, I don't know whether to feel a sense of pity or total contempt.

As opposed to those who see the current flag as something that represents NZ?

[Katman]

Fair call, but my stance on the flag is that I don't give a fuck what it looks like, its just a symbol on a sheet. If you want to worship symbols then go to church.

So what do you see as a nation's flag's purpose?