Merseyside ACME? by Gareth
Apart from being the mail order catalogue of choice for Wile E Coyote in his harebrained schemes to get that roadrunner. What is ACME? I know from the website that it’s the body that supports the creative sector in Liverpool…ect ect, but in all honesty I really don’t see it out there day to day.
Now unless I’m missing something, and I’m happy to be proved wrong, what is it actually doing? Apart from the occasional random poorly designed e-newsletter (which more often than not carries last months news) I really can’t see it out there. I can’t even log into their rather bizarre website these days.
Vision’s involvement in ACME (or more rightly - acquisition of) hasn’t seen a great increase in activity. I watched with interest as the body moved to the Capital to see if there would be a sea change of activity. As i say I’m happy to be proved wrong and welcome all comments from this piece.
I can guarantee that between salaries, suppliers, rent, office costs etc Liverpool Vision don’t much change from £100k . Now by my reckoning there’s around forty five major agencies active in Liverpool. Now here’s a question. ACME or an annual cheque from Vision to those agencies for £2,200. I know what I’d have.
For the record, I’m 33 and I still find Roadrunner funny.
Confused
Liverpool
Georgia said:
Jan 15, 10 at 10:05 amThere’s going to be a lot of agencies like ACME upping thier game with the incoming conservative government, so expect a rush of activity!
If they get rid of RDA’s which is likely, would that be end of Liverpool Vision? I don’t trust our council to run things any better?
ACME look after the creative sector, not just the digital world of Liverpool, they have done some good work around capital of culture but i agree that its not ground breaking and too costly, I’d have the £2200 every day. That said, you could say the same about the chamber of commerce, downtown liverpool, design initiative, professional liverpool…… how much public sector cash have they squeezed out.
Georgia