Talk:Monkey (advertising character)

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on August 9, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

Digital Monkey

With the recent launch of the pg tip advertisments, I would recommend moving this content to a new page like: "Al and Monkey Advertisments" or "TV Advertisment Monkey" and including the information as his days of advertising with itv digital as well as the present pg advertisments.

Is Monkey actually owned by Comic Relief? I had understood that the concept was fought over by ITV Digital's administrators and Mother, the advertising agency. ++I think you may be correct although comic releif do have some rights to him

When itv digital croaked, there was a battle over the rights between between administrators Deloitte & Touche and Mother, the ad agency that created him. Mother won the battle but later gave its rights to Comic Releif which is why PG are donating money made in their chimp shop to comic releif. So the chimp actually is owned by comic releif. My sources for this are: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/01/johnny_vegas_monkey_a_welcome.html and http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20030219/ai_n12036812 Hope this helps

This page needs the ownership of the monkey corrected after research into the current owenership

[edit] Tidy up

I have just hacked the article about quite a bit and I think I am making progress. There is now a clear assertion of notability in the introduction, so hopefully we will see no more AfDs. A few things still need clearing up:

  • Can anybody cite a reference for the "several hundred pounds on Ebay" bit?
  • Was the Watch With Monkey program ever made? If not, we should probably lose the link to it?
  • Was it the animated Monkey or the toy Monkey which appeared in The Office and in what way was it featured?

--DanielRigal 00:19, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PG Tips Monkey in Suicide bid

www.monkeysuicide.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.138.76.217 (talk) 08:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)