Morning Update: Syfy cuts Jared Fogle from Sharknado 3; P&G sells chunk of beauty brands to Coty Inc
AdWeek: Yodeling Country Man Charms Stressed City Dwellers on Live Ad in Swiss Tourism Stunt
Here’s a fun stunt. To promote tourism, the rural Swiss region of Graubünden got an affable gray-bearded man to yell in real time from a digital screen to passersby in Zurich’s main train station—trying to lure them with sweet yodeling and a free ticket to an impromptu vacation in a pastoral mountain town.
The take-it-now-or-leave-it twist is basically a local version of Heineken’s Departure Roullette campaign from a couple years back, which offered travelers already at JFK Airport a vacation to a unknown exotic location if they agreed to drop their existing plans.