Guest wrote:There are no incentives. Total BS. Our site seems to not be having any issues with the conversion but the sales people are. The so- called past artists who are now the controllers who give the instructions to GPC, say this procedure is multiple work because they could make the changes on the ads in an instant, but are not allowed. They have to give the GPC all the instructions and they receive multiple emails from GPC because if there are errors GPC is responsible. So of course they will continue to send emails to make sure the ad is correct. This is the most backward, insane way to make revenue I have ever seen! People sitting idle waiting for GPC to send an email about the ads. Good job Gannett! You have once again screwed your customers, your work flow and your bottom line. What ever ass thought of this should be laid off immediately! What a bunch of idiots! Hope you drown in your stupidity!

Guest wrote:Some of the photos are appalling and it's obvious they were never seen by human eyes. RTC was always good about fixing them if you complained, but a majority of the time we just got frustrated with wasting our time and fixed them ourselves. The majority were ok, but I'd say about 15% were completely unusable.

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exgannettoid wrote:3. The Creative Group is probably going to be a hand-picked group of designers to maintain local design for highly local products. Not that it's perfect, or will even work, but it's a thought. Heavy use of http://www.gannettcreative.com will be pushed by your Publishers, I'm sure. Although the work there is ok, it's hard to customize and no provision is in place to prevent two advertisers having the same look and feel (if one ad is built in Des Moines and the other in Indy, this could easily happen).
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This is what I don't understand re: gannett creative. I admit to browsing through the site (haven't submitted though and now I definitely won't!) and while I've gotten inspiration from some of the ads, never have I looked at an ad with the thought of using it as is, only plugging in my client's info. I've always seen ads as individual, like snowflakes. Apparently so did most of the designers who submitted to the site, because so much of the work was obviously created for very specific purposes and tailored to the clients, AS IT SHOULD BE. Where did Gannett get the idea that they can industrialize ad production as if they are producing widgets?

Newspapers without revenue are dead. Ads bring in revenue. Gannett does very little to support it's designers in improving the quality and effectiveness of the ads we create. They need to wake up and realize we are not a liability to be tolerated, we're an asset that shouldn't be taken for granted.

formeremployee wrote:Is this Gannett Creative Library accessible from non-Gannett computers? I'm trying to get on there to see if they're exploiting the work I proudly (and ignorantly) submitted but I just get a spinning wheel.

I was told after the July layoffs that the creative artists (in Fort Myers) were asked to fill out some kind of questionnaire about their skills and knowledge. I'm guessing this talk of local/ regional creative artists had something to do with that.

exgannettoid wrote:3. The Creative Group is probably going to be a hand-picked group of designers to maintain local design for highly local products. Not that it's perfect, or will even work, but it's a thought. Heavy use of http://www.gannettcreative.com will be pushed by your Publishers, I'm sure. Although the work there is ok, it's hard to customize and no provision is in place to prevent two advertisers having the same look and feel (if one ad is built in Des Moines and the other in Indy, this could easily happen).
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