Mutterings of a Big Teddy

Monday, October 24, 2005

Introducing 'Scoop' Snuffsters

So this is Snuff; Ace Reporter who is on his way to Chile, poised and ready to report on what's going on down there.
First interesting thing he has discovered is that, amazingly enough, Santiago is one hour ahead of Montreal! In other words, Montreal is GMT -5 and Santiago is GMT -4...Who knew?!

So now...in other trivia..Canadian mobile phone company Fido (recently bought by Rogers Wireless) always had humdinger ad campaigns featuring....yes, dogs...all dogs, beautifully shot, brilliantly geared to make the public go "Awww! Sign me up!" You can get an idea of what I mean here: Fido.ca.

So anyway, they generally wiped the floor with the competition. Lately though, rivals Telus Mobile must be storming up the charts with their counter-the-dogs campaign. Telus used use this pretty hip Iguana for their ads last year, along with the tagline "The future is friendly"(TM and all that). Now they have kept the tagline but have lost the smiley iguana, which was a gutsy move. We liked him but hey, you just cant cuddle an iguana.
So whats newer than an iguana and cuter than a dog?? Bunnies!!! The new campaign is mighty and with it we can see that Telus can move (if necessary) from animal to animal but Fido are now a bit oh-so-stuck with the dogs.... Anyway the entire reason for this rant is the Telus ad for promoting multi-player games on its network. Its brilliant and I love it. Go to Telus Ads and click on "Texas Hold 'em" on the bottom left of the screen- needs sound. Yee-Haw y'all!!

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