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November 23, 2004
telstra... casey... oh dear... he he
Heh. I haven't had a chance to post this one up, and I'm sure that everyone would of heard about it already. But here goes. Apparently Telstra popped a congratulatory ad in various metropolitan papers to congratulate Casey Donovan on her win. What is interesting is that they included in the text, a link to what they thought was her website. Sadly, they forgot the .au on the end and the rest as they say is history. The site that was at the .com address was infact, a gay porn website. Ouch. Ouch Ouch. As someone who works in an advertising studio I know that we work to very tight deadlines and I feel sympathy for the poor designer who put together the ad. I bet that when it comes time for someone to cop an arse kicking over this, It'll be the designer that cops the crap. Just when we go around bandying the term "bland" about the countryside they go and proove us wrong - accidentally.
In sort of associated news, telstra bigpond music have exclusivity rights to the new single up until a few days before the general release to the public.
News.com.au article about this incident
Posted by funnelbc at November 23, 2004 01:01 PM
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