The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has thrown out an urgent application by OUTsurance to apparently have Hippo’s controversial advert pulled from screens.
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has thrown out an urgent application by OUTsurance to apparently have Hippo’s controversial advert removed from screens.
In the advert the man can be seen discussing ways to save on vehicle insurance when he and a “customer” are interrupted by a hippo showing them a better quote.Papers seen by TshisaLIVE indicate the matter was heard on Monday and was struck off the roll. OUTsurance was ordered to pay the costs of application.
CEO of hippo.co.za Bradley Du Chenne told TimesLIVE the point of the advert was to “educate” South Africans about the benefits of comparing quotes before committing to an insurer. The advert has drawn debate, with some calling for it to be boycotted and reported to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA for “In 2020, OUTsurance distanced themselves from Maboe and removed ads in which he was featured after a video of him confessing to cheating on his former partner Monique Muller went viral. He
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