Headlines: All the local marketing news…you need to know [Friday edition]

Posted on 31. Oct, 2008 by Jonathan Cherry in Advertising, Totally Whack

- Miniature, traffic light billboards with an ‘underground’ meaning continue in the Claremont area. This one, a clear follow up to the previous ‘Coke Cat’ cereal killer is now a little old and weathered, but still commands the power to keep us guessing.

- Oh dear – Virgin Mobile have announced that the status of the upcoming Virgin Festival has been marked as ‘postponed’. [Tsk] According to the press release…

‘The festival has been
postponed to early 2009 in order to secure the international line-up that is
more in line with what Virgin Festival stands for throughout the different
countries.’

Apparently…

“Some of the bands that South
Africans kept asking for were simply not available at that time of the
year.”

- Bushmills, one of the premium brands we hold dear in the Cherryflava bar, [which by the way goes very nicely with a splash of red Grapetiser and a large Cuban] are running a new online campaign where you can win a 1966 MGB Roadster. The car is busy being restored to its original glory, which you can follow online at www.bushmills.co.za

- Eat Out magazine and Soweto have turned to The Grid [the Vodacom location-based cellphone social network] for some added value. Mobikasi is South Africa’s first geo-tagged documentary
for cellphones, which explores youth culture in Soweto. Check out Soweto Youth Culture on your cellphone at [http://www.thegrid.co.za/mobikasi], which goes live Wednesday 5 November.

- Don’t forget…the
month of Movember is upon us! For those not up to speed with the term…

‘Movember
(a portmanteau of the words ‘Moustache’ and ‘November’) is an annual month-long
event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November.’

So if you’ve always wanted to look like Magnum – now’s your time buddy. Grow that ’stache…blame the tickler on a good cause. See: Movember