Oh No – Optus Dumps Animals For Yes Branding

“Yes” was Optus’s original branding word-of-the-day in 1992, when it first sought to persuade Telecom/Telstra subscribers to move to its then fledgling system.

“Yes is not just a word”, declared a new Optus website that went live on June 25 ahead of the latest brand refresh launch. It claimed the term means Optus will focus on customer service, and improving its networks.

Optus for several years has been using animals including giraffes in its advertising, but they have been in decline over the past few months. Now they have been sent to the advertising knackery.

But cuteness apparently remains in the new branding exercise, with one branding image showing a cartoonish yellow mascot called Ollie leaning on a new Optus logo.

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David Richards

David Richards has been writing about technology for more than 30 years. A former Fleet Street journalist, he wrote the Award Winning Series on the Federated Ships Painters + Dockers Union for the Bulletin that led to a Royal Commission. He is also a Logie Winner for Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism with a story called The Werribee Affair. In 1997, he built the largest Australian technology media company and prior to that the third largest PR company that became the foundation company for Ogilvy PR. Today he writes about technology and the impact on both business and consumers.

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