Why is snoopy the metlife mascot

As online pet supplies retailer Pets. Smigel sent the company a cease and desist letter, claiming the puppet was based on his canine character. For all its popularity, the puppet failed to help Pets. After Pets. The Maytag Repairman dates back to , when he first appeared in advertisements for the appliance company.

Dubbed Ol' Lonely, the character was supposed to represent the reliability of Maytag products. Ten years later, however, the Maytag man got his swagger back as actor Colin Ferguson was cast to play a version of the character who now performs the tasks of the appliances himself, the New York Times reported. In one commercial, Ferguson, in the familiar blue uniform, runs in place in the area where a refrigerator belongs, balancing groceries.

Can you hear me now? Paul Marcarelli was the bespectacled face of Verizon for about a decade, advertising the cell phone giant's reliability. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried long voiced the Aflac duck, quacking to endorse the insurance giant's offerings. In , however, he was fired over tweets he sent in the wake of a devastating tsunami in Japan, one of Aflac's largest markets, CNN reported.

Snoopy helped drive our business and served an important role at the time. However, as we focus on our future, it's important that we associate our brand directly with the work we do and the partnership we have with our customers.

Thankfully, it's not like Snoopy is going away forever or anything, you just won't see him in ads, or on MetLife's famous blimp. The new logo, in case you're curious, will be a blue and green letter M. Pays Every Claim. It Pays. Metropolitan Life Commercial from ' Sleeping Child Metlife. MetLife Ad- Rock Climbing Peanuts MetLife Commercial MetLife Guaranteed Returns.

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