‘Advocate’ title is coincidence, claims creator of The Betoota Advocate’s would-be rival The Aussie Advocate
The creator of new satirical website The Aussie Advocate which appears to borrow heavily from cult Aussie title The Betoota Advocate, has claimed the similarity of its title is a coincidence.
The Aussie Advocate describes itself as the “newest kid on the block of satire news websites”.
Its launch comes as the increasingly popular The Betoota Advocate has begun to find ways of monetising itself, including today being unveiled as a partner for Meat & Livestock Australia’s new summer campaign.
Is this real? Or satirical?
This is embarrassing…
I can’t see it ending well for this poor guys hopes and dreams .
Also uses the same website theme as The Shovel. Looks like this guy is trying to trade off others’ success.
Well, if you can’t beat ’em.. Rip off their IP
What a blatant p1ss take. If I was Betoota I would be filing against that, for sure and they will win.
Beyond cheeky – hope Betoota pursue this
This is a ruse.
Good luck “Steve” – won’t be avodacating 4 u
Lol it’s already dead because of this article
The word Advocate in a newspaper or magazine title dates back over a century in the English-speaking world in the US, the UK and Australia. It is still widely used in legal, student and community titles in all three countries. The Blacktown Advocate in Sydney – launched in 1944 – is a good case in point.
And The Betoota Advocate’s title is a coincidence to Burnie’s ‘The Advocate’.
Hang on, I meant ‘The Blacktown Advocate’.
No, ‘The Great Lakes Advocate; – my mistake.
Ooops – no, really, ‘The Coffs Coast Advocate’ which I always confuse with ‘The Western Advocate from Bathurst for some strange reason.
When you are all out of ideas.
I guess ‘The Onion Advocate’ was already taken?
Curious as to how this guy managed to get onto Mumbella.
The Instagram page has under 100 likes, which leads me to doubt their numbers on Facebook are organic or even real.
The engagement ratio is extremely poor too.
Also, hasn’t appeared to update it in about a week?