NEW YORK (Reuters) - a father of three blissful Minnesota is the new voice of insurer Aflac, taking up the role of the quacking duck acerbic comedian fired Gilbert Gottfried.
Dan McKeague in Hugo, Minnesota, beaten some 12 500 candidates for the position, which consists primarily of quacking "Af - Lake!" to an increase in the level of exasperation in advertisements of the disability insurer.
The public got its first glimpse of the voice of McKeague, as, in a video online of the Chief Executive Dan Amos offers 36-year-old labour. Take Manager sales radio on the charlatan is remarkably similar to Gottfried, if slightly less sharp comic born in Brooklyn.
His first commercial debuts online today and will be also broadcast during NBC singing competition "the voice" Tuesday evening.
The spot of 30 seconds is breakdance duck in competition with a pigeon, with a single prominent quack of the name of the company at the outset.
AFLAC did not disclose the McKeague compensation, if he could be lucrative. Voices.com voiceover talent site quotes a rate of $2,000 for a single national advertising.
Gottfried expressed the duck in more than 50 advertisements since 2000. AFLAC was dismissed on 14 March to make coarse jokes on Twitter following the earthquake in the Japan and tsunami. Issued Gottfried of public apology the next day.
The Japan is the most important market of the Aflac, where the company draws about three-quarters of its revenue, making earthquake particularly sensitive issue.
Although the company said at the outset that its exposure to the quake would be limited, its shares fell more than 13% in four days after the March 11 disaster struck in the Japan. They have bounced that partially since.
(Reported by Ben Berkowitz;) (Editing by Tim Dobbyn, Bernard Orr)
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