{"id":19481,"date":"2011-04-04T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-04T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T08:16:00","slug":"mo-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/19481-mo-is-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Mo is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom recently unveiled their <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/19449-Vodacom-unveils-red-Vodafone-branding.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"new Vodafone centric branding\">new Vodafone centric branding<\/a>, but unlike other international Vodafone operators, Vodacom is keeping its name.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/210077-Pieter-Uys\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Pieter Uys profile\">Pieter Uys<\/a> said that consumers can expect a more <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/19465-Vodacom-CEO-promises-increased-value-and-better-customer-service.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Vodacom CEO promises increased value and better customer service\">customer centric company<\/a> with great customer service, a world class network and improved value propositions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the changes at the company Uys said that it remains Vodacom, and to entrench this idea Vodacom is using well known Vodacom characters such as Elton and Jan, &lsquo;Yebo Gogo&rsquo; actors Michael de Pinna and Bankole Omotoso as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/324061-Mo-the-Meerkat\">Mo the Meerkat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is however understood that the Mo the Meerkat campaign will not run for too long.<\/p>\n<p>The new advertising campaigns which feature these well known icons forms part of Vodacom multi-million Rand re-branding exercise which started on Friday last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/324079-Mo-the-Meerkat-is-back\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Mo is back!\"><strong>Mo is back!<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/mo_the_meerkat_vodacom_red_503519308.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mo the meerkat\" title=\"Mo the meerkat\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom is turning the country red, and is using some of the most famous Vodacom characters to help the company re-brand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19481"}],"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=19481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}