{"id":405,"date":"2007-06-26T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-09T15:08:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:08:23","slug":"seeking-a-savvier-beast-at-new-look-vodacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/405-seeking-a-savvier-beast-at-new-look-vodacom.html","title":{"rendered":"Seeking a savvier beast at new-look Vodacom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Knott-Craig, it seems, wants to leave. But one hopes he takes the macabre guinea pig, which now infests billboards, with him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Certainly Knott-Craig was instrumental in Vodacom\u2019s rise, but he hasn\u2019t done it for free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Vodacom doesn\u2019t disclose directors\u2019 pay, but we know Knott-Craig was one of four bosses who shared R74,5m last year, an average of nearly R20m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Now at Vodacom\u2019s recent results presentation, Knott-Craig gushed over how the youth just loves the creepy meerkat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">But you have to wonder if the 55-year-old CEO earns his big bucks for these pithy insights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">In May, the largest South African group on Facebook\u2019s social network, which boasted 9600 members, was called: \u201cI $@*ing hate the animated meerkat from Vodacom.\u201d Today, it has 14000 members \u2014 a 40% growth in weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">So if Facebook is a \u201cyouth culture\u201d phenomenon, what does Knott-Craig know of this culture?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">And should he control a firm that spent R1,1bn on marketing last year?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=79360\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NEW-look Vodacom, sans CEO Alan Knott-Craig and presumably sans 50% shareholder Telkom, will hopefully be a savvier animal than the current beast, which has a weasel as its emblem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2887,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"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\/2887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26217,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/26217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}