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Continental Outdoor getting into the game

By Gillian Abrahams · AdVantage archive
From the AdVantage archive. This report was published on this domain when AdVantage covered the South African media, marketing and advertising industry as a monthly title. It is kept online for reference and has not been updated; people, prices and companies named in it have moved on.
Continental Outdoor getting into the game
2018 02 26 Advertising hoarding for cross country event, Estrada de Ferreiras, Albufeira. Photo: Kolforn ( Kolforn ) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Continental Outdoor is proudly supporting the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) 2025. They kick-start soccer fever at Africa’s most prestigious soccer tournament, even before the official, already sold-out opening game on Saturday between South Africa and Cape Verde. All the Gautrain Stations are adorned with iconic green and yellow Afcon Continental Outdoor billboards showing Takuma the hippo, the official Afcon mascot, getting into the game and “The Beat at Africa’s Feet”. Not only does Continental Outdoor hold exclusive advertising rights at all the Gautrain Stations but they are playing host to Afcon’s “The Beat at Africa’s Feet” campaign.

Central to “The Beat at Africa’s Feet” campaign is the proudly South African designed Takuma, who wears a yellow soccer kit and was unveiled in a draw in Durban last month and will be the mascot for many years to come. Takuma, who appears on all Continental’s Afcon Billboards, was designed by a pupil at Dikgorwaneng Primary School, in Hammanskraal.

Filed under: afcon · afcon continental billboards · afcon mascot · africa cup of nations · bafana bafana · continental outdoor · kick off · sa yellow soccer kit

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