Ronald McDonald Replaced by Timberlake
The global fast-food McDonalds franchise has just signed up Justin Timberlake - a singer-cum-dancer from the USA and popular with children - to a sponsorship-for-advertising deal for an undisclosed sum.
The Timberlake 35-city European concert tour will be now be sponsored by McDonalds, known worldwide for their inexpensive burger-and-fries meals. The tour is scheduled to start in Germany in November 2003
In a move to further play down their famous ‘Ronald McDonald’ character, the burger-making company want Timberlake to sing the new McDonalds’ themesong (I’m lovin’ it) in ‘rap style’ on their new commercials for television and cinema.
Source: abclocal.go.com
anybody know of a opening for a clown with a heart condition?
Ya I heard last year of rumors they are going to slowly phase out the clown. McDonalds takes a lot of critazism for markating to young kids with the clown so they are looking and ways to minamize that. This way there are jsut goign to take flack for using such a tool of a spokesman.