Las Vegas Sun NewsLVCVA ad campaign to drive visitors to trip-booking website
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8 January 2013
3:14 p.m.
You probably don’t know much about 45-year-old Las Vegasdotcom. He’s an ordinary-looking guy, an insurance salesman, often confused with the Internet website that’s now selling rooms, show tickets and tours in Southern Nevada on behalf of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. That’s the story line for a new series of television ads that debuted Monday to drive traffic to the LVCVA’s lasvegas.com website. City tourism leaders hope the public will get to know him as well as they know the “What happens here, stays here” slogan. R&R Partners executive Billy Vassiliadis introduced the new television spots, the first ...
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Wow! If I were a competitor to Greenspun and its affiliates I'd be PISSED OFF! The City of Las Vegas has just helped to BURY other companies trying to make money off affiliate fees for ticket sales and hotel stays by doing this deal. How dare they slap other Las Vegas businesses in the face like this! And to top it all off, according to the LVCVA surveys, almost no one has an interest in going downtown. - you know in the City of Las Vegas city limits. This is what the City Councilors need to work on - their OWN campaigns to get people to their neck of the woods.This incestuous relationship that has existed forever between the City of Las Vegas and the major businesses out of the city limits is open corruption. The City of Las Vegas should be doing its OWN campaign to get people into the City limits - the mega-corporations don't need the City anyway. They have a lot of states in this country and deals in other countries as well. Was this business decision really necessary? Forget about honesty at all in Las Vegas. This really is an affront to all those businesses here trying to make a living by pushing Vegas on the hopes they get a tiny cut and some advertising revenue. Shame on the City Council.
And one other thing. When's the last time anyone really looked at that bizarre and insane vegas.com website? It's incredibly cluttered, illogical in its design, outdated in its technology, convoluted and ill-conceived. At least let someone who knows how to DESIGN a clean web interface redo it.
One more thing - what about the conflict of interest for Greenspun since the City is helping them make money? Will Greenspun lay off stories that may be critical of the City? Terrible decision for journalistic ethics.