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Coke driver fired for drinking Pepsi

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homeless' cardboard signs serve as advertising media

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Taj Mahal being turned into a shopping mall

A bit OT but how far will commercialization go?
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fcuking 'ell.

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Driving and lipstick application

Harvey Nichols insists the advert, which shows the driver nearly running over a man while using the rear-view mirror to apply her lipstick, was tongue
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Badland does Album covers

Some people believe that every ad that is similar in idea to another ad, is a rip-off.
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Snuggle gets sexy

The Snuggle bear is getting a new image.
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Sexy shoe ads step in it

No, this time it is not the by-now-infamous Puma ads, it's Patrick Cox who are in trouble - and not because of their name.
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Children exposed to ass in UK - Renault ad banned.

"I see you baby, shaking that arse!"
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Some Complaints Just Don't Float

The latest UK ban: A Sun newspaper commercial. Reason this time around: A man inhales helium from a balloon. Shocked! Shocked, I am! Hmm...

BBC One - Cliffhanger (2003) :90 (UK)

A village is attacked, a woman runs to save her child, fleeing the attack and the fire, but then she falls over a cliff.
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Durex pun No more

Durex withdraw a poster accused of "promoting casual sex" after three people complained.
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Sex and beer once again

It's not a new thing anymore. Apparently you can't sell beer without putting in some sort of sexual visual or innuendo.
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Heidi looks like a stripper?

H&M have already caused their usual ruckus with their new poster campaign for summer bathing fashions - featuring model Heidi Klum.
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x-tra read all about the x-fever

You may have noticed as of late, the deluge of X/Xtreme/eXtreme/Extreme names. So has the Boston Globe who say all this X communication is no acciden
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MSN Launches "iLoo"

We've been laughing at this all morning - seriously believing that this is a joke. Alas, it's not a joke, MSN Launches World's First
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Is it News or an Advert?

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MTV refuses to air anti-war ads

Groups opposed to the U.S.-led campaign against Baghdad complain they have been blocked from airing anti-war advertisements on broadcast media increas
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Miller Lite - Maxim Lite (2003) Print Ad (US)

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adidas 'shoe bomber' ad bombs.

The advertising watchdog in the UK is investigating after receiving complaints that an adidas poster poked fun at the case of the convicted terrorist

Don't jump - revisited

Bustop adverts with the same headlines!
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NCAA blocks 'cat fight' beer ad

The NCAA is now vetting beer commercials.
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De Beers Avoids A Bomb With Ode To Mom

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Viagra reaction to limp idea cans agency's parody

Auckland , NZ : An advertising agency has been forced to cancel a marketing parody of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra after squabbling with pharm

Microsoft ad pulled by ASA

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Zoom Zoom Zoo-oops!

A Mazda spot has been yanked in Australia because they drove too fast
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Nike Gets Bit

It's a minute long. Less than a second of it has two dogs on leashes - a pit bull and a rottweiler - doing what dogs sometimes do.
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lobsters pale by comparison.

Lobsters corner sunblock market. Prawns protest!
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Wrigley Xcite - Dog Breath (2003) - 0:30 (UK) BANNED

Chew on this - Wrigley«s has broken the record for most Independent Television Commission complaints of a TV commercial in the UK - nearly 700 and cou
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Ads. From the farm to your TV. Fresh!

Advertising agencies are hothouses for creativity, but sometimes their ideas aren't as farm fresh as they should be.

McD - what you see you don't get.

Pot Noodle - Desperate Dan (2003) :60 (UK)

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Bermuda Busted!

A special lesson to lazy hacks: If one of your accounts is an island paradise, maybe you should get your ass down there once in a while and take some
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flirt, squirt and sex sells?

... OR does it? Is this a case of dupliclaims - or are these just wet dreams of creatives?
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advertise on your forehead

formerly a daring fashion move reserved for (bone)heads and their Union Jack Flags - Now even the posh Guardian wants you to label your forehead.
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beer and twins

<p><i>I love football on TV,<br /> Shots of Gina Lee,<br /> Hanging with my friends,<br /> And twins!</i><br
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Nike won't have it.

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Moms outrage against Nike nudity

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Corn Pops - Skateboard (2003) - 0:30 (USA)

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Transforming ideas

It's been a while since we've seen this kind of Badlander*. The original is a web movie - an animation made by some talented freelancers

Audio Badland - Levis vs. Intel

Magic Carpet?

These two advertisers couldn't be more different, and their commercials couldn't be more similar.

Guinness - Lava - aka Volcanos, Committees, Whiners and Beer

After receiving a few humourless complaints, it seems that the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland decided yesterday to ban a Guinness commerc
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Dirtier than they thought.

Mazda Protege 5 - Zoom Zoom - Seat Belt Light (2002) - 0:30 (USA)

This ad was banned
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Microsoft switch goes sour

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ad translation bites.

In Stockholm 7-11 are currently running ads promoting their hot dogs. Someone should have told them what their headline means in french

Walking billboard.

Tobacco has always been a hard sell, and not even copycat creative can help it. Click continue to view the good and the bad.
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Phwoar - says the queen over sex-ad.

An advert for Ann Summers chain of sex/lingerie shops, depicting the Queen reading a sex manual next to the line "Phwoar, must get one", has
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"emotional bond with batteries"

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McDonald's Promotion Killed on Safari

Working for Scales - The Dangers of Stock Photography

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wine makers sue government for anti-drink ads

I thought I'd seen it all in the court cases concerning ads..
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Vodaphone shows their true colors.

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I see ghosts - plural! - Interview with the creators of ghost

Here's a dupliclaim I never thought would happen, but I have seen many many ghosts lately.
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Ceasar sues McDonald's - for making him fat

An obese New Yorker is suing four leading US fast food chains, McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC who he accuses of being responsible for hi

Piercing ideas - twice. Ouch!

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The cola wars get hot

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Ice Breakers - She Smiled (2002) - 0:30 (USA)

She smiled!

God v/s God

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Photocopied concept

Imagistics - Jamming at 2pm - (2002) :30 (USA)

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You are getting sleepy....

Zippo revisits Ogilvy's hypnotist idea - with a twist . The company said the results not only confirmed Zippo's image as the maker of a c
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dumb ad ban of the week

a job advert asking for a "friendly" employee has been deemed to be "not fair to unfriendly people". "We were told we coul

women are cows!

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A house with a nice southern overexposure.

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Stepping in doggy duo.

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Arla treat women like cows.

Arla treat women like cows.
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7up, starring Buck Nekkid - It's the Mountain Dew of deja vu.

After seeing that 7up has agreed to pull its "Captive Audience" spot, I an reminded of what happened last year with 7up, pixilated nudity an
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7up pulls prison spot

The little old ladies from... prison?
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Nike gagged.

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Mitsubishi vs. Volkswagen

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Digital ads in "Spider man" have Super Sign filing suit against Sony

C|Net reports that 'Digital ads entangle "Spider-Man"' for digitally superimposing billboards in Time Square, thus eating into the
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Badland get watered down - Big time

The Snuggle Struggle - a badland counterstrike

FCUK and "Kinkybugger"

French Connection founder Stephen Marks has apologized for last year's "kinkybugger" campaign, admitting it was "a mistake"

Teaser ads gone wrong?

I'm not so sure this confusion with Met Life/mLife is more from the name than the advertising.

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