ZooZoos: Inspiration or Imitation
Note: Issued in Public Interest :p
The Zoozoo series of ads is one of the most successful running campaigns for telecom giant Vodafone which had an equal (if not less) amount of success with their 'pug' ads. These eggshell like cute white funny creatures have become all the rage in India so much so that Vodafone plans to air 30 different commercials. Just like in television, you can find them everywhere online too, especially on social networking websites like Facebook and YouTube in the form of
applications, quizzes, micro sites, etc.
But yesterday, I came across an interesting link which changed my lookout on these Zoozoos completely. I stumbled upon a series of graphics on popular stock imagery website stockxpert by user Huebi (real name: Alexander Hübert from Wuppertal, Germany) which were made
available in 2007. The interesting part about these graphics is that they resemble the Zoozoos to quite an extent. In fact, I first thought that these Zoozoos even made it to stock imagery sites… LOL!
Follow the links below to check out each of these graphics:
http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/view/6573451
http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/view/6573401
http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/view/6573461
http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/view/8422672
http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/view/6574501
http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/view/6573711
So the question still remains… are the Zoozoos an inspiration or are they just a cut-copy-paste idea? I leave that for you to decide
