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- BUSINESS, Page 41Business NotesMARKETINGThe Ultimate Ad Space
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- The last commercial-free frontier is about to be breached.
- When the first British-Soviet space mission blasts into orbit
- in 1991, the event will have all the advertising hoopla of the
- Super Bowl. Glavkosmos, the Soviet space agency, has hired
- Britain's Saatchi & Saatchi agency to package corporate
- sponsorships, similar to those sold for the Olympic Games. The
- marketing ploy could raise an estimated $26 million to help pay
- for the project. During the mission, two Soviet cosmonauts and
- the first ever British astronaut will spend a week aboard the
- Mir space station. Saatchi has already designed the joint
- project's logo, which features a soaring goose, and has named
- the mission Juno, in honor of the Roman goddess of marriage.
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- For a multimillion-dollar fee, a corporate sponsor could
- get permission to use Juno's logo in its packaging and ads,
- possibly send company employees to the launching site and have
- its ads plastered on the Soyuz rocket and even the British
- astronaut's space suit. Says Saatchi spokesman Bill Jones: "If
- we are successful, this guy will go up looking like a racing
- driver."
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