iShat2....oops I mean iFail....oops again, iSnack2.0 goes off overnight!

Kraft admits VegeFAIL

By News Online's Cassie White

Posted 1 hour 25 minutes ago
Updated 1 hour 2 minutes ago

iSnack 2.0... it's toast.

iSnack 2.0... it's toast. (AAP: file photo)

The makers of Vegemite have bowed to intense pressure from the public and canned their new iSnack 2.0 product branding.

The new name has been ridiculed Australia-wide since it was revealed last Saturday during the AFL grand final.

Kraft chose the name iSnack 2.0 from over 48,000 entries in Australia and New Zealand in a competition that was launched in July this year.

But today, Kraft has admitted that while Aussies are buying the new product, they just aren't buying the new name.

Head of Corporate Affairs Simon Talbot said in a statement they are going to give the public another shot at coming up with a better name.

So now we see the quick rush by Kraft, manufacturers of the iSnack 2.0 product, to drop the new identify of the cream "cheesy-mite" spread.

It didn't take long after the barrage of criticism. They almost had us believing, oh its just a temporary name - part of a promotion...yeh sure! Give it up Kraft!

I am yet to taste this abuse of my favourite spread (Vegemite that is) and maybe one day I will have a hangover worthy of indulging.

Sylvestor
www.twitter.com/Sylvestor

Filed under  //  AFL   Branding   iSnack 2.0   Kraft   Marketing   Vegemite  
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Posted 5 months ago

iShat2...oops I mean iSnack2.0 - the new but very droll Vegemite!

Really I have no comment. But thought I would piece together a few responses from here and there :)

Sylvestor 
www.twitter.com/Sylvestor

From www.crikey.com.au

Deep breath….

ispew

The Vegemite iSnack 2.0. Yes: they really called it that.

As the gatekeepers of Web 2.0 and poking fun at easy targets, the good citizens of Twitter just about went into snark meltdown when the new name was revealed in the quarter-time ad break of the AFL Grand Final, and all discussion of men in tiny shorts running around an oval was quickly discarded as #Vegefail took over as one of the highest trending topics in the world.

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vegefail2

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...and thanks to Mumbrella:

Your thoughts?

Filed under  //  Food   iSnack 2   Kraft   Vegemite  
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Posted 5 months ago