Viral: A recent ad for Zomato is going viral on social media, which raises a question among netizens about how it should be pronounced: is it ZoMAAto or ZoMAIto? On the same note, the CEO of Zomato, Deepinder Goyal, took to Twitter and said that let India decide what it should be called, although he called it ZoMAAto in the tweet.
Hard to believe that no one was harmed in the making of this zoMaato ad#ZomatovsZomato pic.twitter.com/pQiHdN1rE5
— Deepinder Goyal (@deepigoyal) April 8, 2023
In the advertisement, a girl and her brother-in-law argue about how to pronounce the company’s name, which produces a commotion in the house, with other family members engaging in the dispute. The girl is seen pronouncing the company’s name as “Zomaito,” while her uncle corrects her and pronounces it as “Zomaato.”
We’ll let India decide that
— Deepinder Goyal (@deepigoyal) April 8, 2023
While sharing the video he captioned it, “Hard to believe that no one was harmed in the making of this zoMaato ad.”
In reply to the tweet, Zomato’s official tweeter account commented, “Hard to believe that you don’t know your company is called zoMaito.”
He again reply to the tweet with, “We’ll let India decide that.”
Netizens Reaction
A user wrote, “Known you for 13 years and always thought it was zoMaito.” Another user wrote, “Totally agree Albi! Deepi, I think it is zoMaito for everyone around me.” A third user writes, “It’s ZoMaato, now everyone shut up!”
