{"id":105343,"date":"2014-07-03T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=105343"},"modified":"2014-07-03T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:39:37","slug":"mo-the-meerkat-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/105343-mo-the-meerkat-is-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Mo the Meerkat is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c#BringbackourMo \u2013 We said Yes! Guess who&#8217;s back\u2026 Back again\u2026 tell a friend :)\u201d. This is one of the latest tweets by Vodacom about the company\u2019s decision to bring back Mo the Meerkat.<\/p>\n<p>Mo the Meerkat was introduced as the face of Vodacom in 2006 in its advertising campaigns. The animated character was a hit with the younger generation, and Vodacom was rated as the coolest telecoms provider in the Sunday Times 2006 Generation Next survey.<\/p>\n<p>The liking for Mo the Meerkat was, however, not shared by everyone. Many people voiced their dislike for the character on social media and other online platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Mo was eventually phased out of Vodacom\u2019s advertising campaigns, but made a short comeback as part of Vodacom\u2019s red rebranding campaign in April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile operator, which is celebrating its 20 year anniversary this year, has now released a new advertisement featuring Mo, titled \u201cVodacom 20 Years: Mo the Meerkat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dY5whHW9QYs\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Mo the Meerkat<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom Mo the Meerkat\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/324061-Mo-the-Meerkat\"><strong>Vodacom Mo the Meerkat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mo the Meerkat is back\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/19481-mo-is-back.html\"><strong>Mo the Meerkat is back<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom brings back Mo the Meerkat in an advertising campaign as part of its 20 year celebrations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":105345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,25731,41],"class_list":["post-105343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-mo-the-meerkat","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105349,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105343\/revisions\/105349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}