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<text id=89TT1904>
<title>
July 24, 1989: Business Notes:Marketing
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
July 24, 1989 Fateful Voyage:The Exxon Valdez
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 41
Business Notes
MARKETING
The Ultimate Ad Space
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<p> The last commercial-free frontier is about to be breached.
When the first British-Soviet space mission blasts into orbit
in 1991, the event will have all the advertising hoopla of the
Super Bowl. Glavkosmos, the Soviet space agency, has hired
Britain's Saatchi & Saatchi agency to package corporate
sponsorships, similar to those sold for the Olympic Games. The
marketing ploy could raise an estimated $26 million to help pay
for the project. During the mission, two Soviet cosmonauts and
the first ever British astronaut will spend a week aboard the
Mir space station. Saatchi has already designed the joint
project's logo, which features a soaring goose, and has named
the mission Juno, in honor of the Roman goddess of marriage.
</p>
<p> For a multimillion-dollar fee, a corporate sponsor could
get permission to use Juno's logo in its packaging and ads,
possibly send company employees to the launching site and have
its ads plastered on the Soyuz rocket and even the British
astronaut's space suit. Says Saatchi spokesman Bill Jones: "If
we are successful, this guy will go up looking like a racing
driver."
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</body></article>
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