The Pomegranate was a 2008 series of advertisements for a fictional mobile phone [1] which was created as a marketing campaign on behalf of the government of Nova Scotia. [2] The website advertising the product has comical features such as a harmonica, a coffee maker, a video projector, [3] live voice translator, [4] and a shaving razor. [5]
The Pomegranate phone was a campaign from Communications Nova Scotia's "Come to Life" initiative, the place branding program of the Government of Nova Scotia. Communications Nova Scotia has been criticized by some for spending $175,000 on the ad campaign, though the website received over three million visits from 195 countries and territories[ citation needed ] since its launch on September 30, 2008, and they are considering it to be very successful. [6]