Madden brothers to front Vodafone housewarming promotion
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Good Charlotte members Benji and Joel Madden have added Vodafone to their list of Australian endorsements months after the bumpy launch of their support for KFC.
The Madden brothers are fronting a contest offering Vodafone customers the chance to win an invitation to a “housewarming” party for them.
Joel Madden is one of the coaches on Nine’s The Voice, which returns for a second series on Nine later this year.
Geez, those guys will shill for anything. Don’t forget they supported Blackberry a while back too.
Dear God! The Madden Bros are like herpes – they just won’t go away. Ugh
wow… if they hadnt demonstrated it already… at least we now have a clear definition of the term “Sell out”
Please.. no more. No more Maddens.
Why would you want greasy chicken fingers on your phone.
Please no more Madden brothers!
Oh. No. *shaking head*
Whilst I would personally not associate these annoying Madden Bros with any of my brands. I am astonished at why Vodafone are still promoting themselves?
Why on earth are Vodafone not learning?!!!
1) Get your product fixed
2) Sort out your customer service
3) Let others market your new and improved product and service.
I scratch my head. The way Vodafone are going, they will be pulling out of Oz soon…
Are they really that popular in Australia? I don’t get this at all.
Buy a three piece feed and get Vodafone pre-paid. Now that’s a good campaign. You can kill two birds with one stone (pardon the pun)
The Voice, Blackberry, KFC and Vodafone. You can’t create a blander and more creatively challenged portfolio if you tried
Vodafone have tried to get a number of celebrities to front campaigns but they all keep saying no. Anyone with any degree of credibility wants to stay away from them.
@confused (#8): absofrigginlutley. I second, third and fourth your proposal. Why advertise a business when you obviously can’t run one?
They are the Daddo brothers of the decade!
Someone at Ogilvy really loves the Madden boys, 2 campaigns with them in 2 months…which client is next?
I suppose they would need to go and knock on their neighbour’s door because it’s not like they could call them.
Please provide the “houseparty” address so I know where to throw the eggs!
Yeh gads – that house is just up the road from us!
Who?
Who is it that thinks these guys are the shizz. Using them is worse than the Normie Rowe in the Coles ads. Vodafone get your researcher to check with kids in the target market they hardly even know who they are. If it isn’t bad enough your coverage is less than desirable this will just be the icing on the cake. Please someone get with the program this is just plain embarrassing for Vodafone.
Vegan wanker sellouts. Yep Aussie kids love that shit, apparently. Any tosser with a bit of ink can sell.
Did the Maddens go bust, hence they need the money? Does seem overkill for any artist.
Seriously, NO ONE likes the madden brothers. This is just insanely off the mark. The KFC ads are the worst, most annoying ads I have seen in a long time. The madden brothers are so so so shit. Stop being so shit at your jobs ogilvy.
This is embarrassing.
Pleasingly, I have almost NO knowledge of who these Madden people are, but the little that has inevitable soaked into my awareness (in the same way that I’ve never watched a Kardashian show or read and article about them but still know a bit about who they are) totally fails to impress me at all. I presume they’re just another bunch of wanna-be B-list ‘celebs’ who have achieved some degree of fame/recognition for being who they are and on some reality TV shows rather than having any specific talent?
I might be wrong, truth be told I could not even bother to check them on Wikipedia, so low is my level of interest in them – but for what it’s worth, I agree with those who suggest that Vodafone needs to actually get its network and customer service sorted out before anything else, otherwise this is a fortune spent on frippery!
The KFC and the Vodafone spots ran back to back last night, it was like the Madden happy hour.
They’ve also in the past 6 months played the NRL grand final, V8’s Gold Coast and they’re about to play the 20/20 international… They so should do the “Cha Ching” campaign for Big W, now that would be some sweet integration.
Get off my TV.
These guys are total whores when it comes to flogging off brands. If the campaigns they are featured in were half decent/creative/interesting then it would be ok. But they are complete rubbish.
@Jack B Nimble Yep B grade US bod, who can get fame over here (smaller pond, with less fish). Certainly selling out for sure.
I wonder how many decent, Australian customer service staff Vodafone could have hired for a year, instead of making and airing this advert. Lets say that a decent customer service res get paid $55k per annum.
Anyone got any idea’s?
Maybe they could both strap on Berlei bras and be the next bouncing twosome? All that chicken is bound to give them some decent B cup moobs.