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Zach and Miri make a porn movie - poster banned.

"Zack and Miri Make a Porno" opened at the Toronto film festival last week and this poster - yes, this one above here - was banned because..
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Have you seen something similar ?

This is an ad, recently awarded at a festival for new creative ideas. But I think I have seen it somewhere before.
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Jamie Nelsons original photography 2006

Dexim ad vs Jamie Nelson - This is what we call "demo love" - and what lawyers call "copyright infringement".

Last year I worked at a place where the "creative" was limited to "Model on the left, product to the right" and every single sketc
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More LP Portraits in pop culture.

Y&R Paris created this campaign for Olympia Womans Socks, they are Lingerie pour les pieds - lingerie for your feet.
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GSD&M CD creates phony gmail account in ECD's name - gets fired.

Yikes, mediaspy has some hot gossip - as the story goes, a CD created a gmail account in the name of ECD Mark Taylor, and used it to ask employees opi
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Telia Sweden "pauses" Stureplan in Stockholm. Homage to Improv Everywhere, anyone?

Storåkers in Stockhom were so impressed by Improv Everywhere's fantastic Frozen Grand Central that they repeated the event, except as an ad for T
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Spain fails to medal in Olympic advertising

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Svenska Spels JätteTriss oversized billboard a flop.

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Burger King sinks are good for bathing too.

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PETA reaches now lows of tacky, tasteless and just plain mean.

In their most tasteless effort yet to squeeze themselves the news on the tails of real tragedy PETA compares bus decapitation to animal slaughters.
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Travel Posters That Never Were

In the style of classic vacation advertising, the at folks at Echo Park Time Travel Mart have put together some posters (scroll down a screen or two)

Anti-ageing creams stop time. Twice.

Silhouetted cities - twice.

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Telia's iPhone campaign is just a tad contradictory.

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Smooth Radio 102.2 – Album Covers (2008):30 (UK)

Here's another ad to toss into the album cover badland bin.
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I'm seeing double in the halls of the Shining.

I don't know what brought on the sudden popularity of The Shining - perhaps all work and no play makes ad-Jack a dull boy?
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Vertical football times two - Carlsberg vs Adidas.

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The green party (Miljöpartiet de gröna) advertises for equality, using money as visual.

Miljöpartiet de gröna in Sweden ran a full page ad in Dagens Nyheter (morning newspaper) today highlighting the fact that money with females on it, is

Double BLT magazine covers, NYT's "T" vs Coast a.k.a Toast.

New York Times blog finds that Coast Magazine is doing ye old 'sincerest form of flattery' thing regarding their own Spring 2007 cover of T
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Translate server error reveals serious priority error.

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Unfortunately Placed Hotels.com Ad

Hotels.com probably doesn't like Tech watch after this.

Poorly Timed Hotels.com Ad
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Nike's Freestyle Basketball youtube viral bores me like all other fake virals.

I'm getting sick of these fake stunts posted to youtube that are secret little ads, aren't you?
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Peachmobile Zim Zoo ad gets banned by the ASA for "lowering Robert Mugabe's dignity"

You'd think it couldn't be done, the "Lowering of dignity" bit that is, but the annoying ringtone with the equally annoying ad fro
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Neo Sports Cannes Lion winning film is a rip-off and a scam ad to boot.

The silver Lion winning has turned out to be yet another scam ad in the prestigious Cannes award.
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Highlighters vs Blacking out text.

Remember the Luxor Highlighters campaign from Leo Burnett Mumbai? Yes, it even won a nice shiny Gold Lion at the Cannes awards in press.
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Sixth foot found and CNN banner ad steps in it.

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Brands on Candid Camera

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Denny's serve it up YouTube style

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Cumming, The fragrance and the Sophie Dahl nude shoot spoof

I don't know why Clay is so preoccupied with perfumes recently, but he just wondered aloud if anyone knew how cumming the fragrance was selling.
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Christian group angry at "Slutbucks".

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Nike apologies for Zlatan Ibrahimović's gun fetish.

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NY Times: Which Came First, or Does It Even Matter?

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Candid Camera Concept Catchy for Pizza Hut and Carl's Jr/Hardees

Earlier this year, Yum Brands Pizza Hut launched it's new pasta offering by setting up a fake restaurant named Tuscani, serving their new pasta a

"Play, Boy!" looks a lot like the Brazil vs Argentina posters

This Playboy ad was found in a German magazine and reminded me of the
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Bacardi Mojito Ad

Cleaning the glass

Bacardi Mojito Ad

The Get Out Clause CCTV video VS The Frames CCTV video.

As much as I hate this song, I love the idea of the video.
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Louis Vuitton sues designer over Darfur T-shirt

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Tom Ford Eyewear ad gets banned in Italy

It was just a matter of time, wasn't it?
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The self proclaimed featherhead gets to keep the domain Teflonminne, Dupont sulks.

WIPO has released their administrative panel decision in regards to the domain name Teflonminne, which I told you about here: DuPont's Teflon doe
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Gossip Girl - OMFG (2008) Print (USA)

There's such a big flap over the new Gossip Girl billboard that uses a four-letter txt word, but it's not as controversial as French Connect
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Korean cosmetics maker Coreana finally pulls "Nazi ad"

Wallyworld gossips with us and tells us that the Korean Nazi ad has been pulled, the ad from from Coreana has been rubbing all sorts of people the wro
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McCann India's Hanes ads run into global controversy

They were ads that McCann-Erickson India was hoping would win them some international awards.
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Rolling, rolling, rolling ... Badland!

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Coca Cola featuring Tibetan monks ticks off Chinese ex-pat in Germany

Have you heard that old myth about the McDonald's burger makers?
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Homer vs. Hormel

When I saw this Hormel spot today, all I could say was D'OH!
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Poster looting in Chicago stealing the snacks inside

Karlssons Klister (UHU) poster campaign in Stockholm fails.

There were quite a few interesting Karlssons Klister outdoor executions in Stockholm this week - sadly the best one (possibly) was taken down before I
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The Mummy in Badland - UPC vs some Egyptian rent-a-car

Here's a Badlander sure to amuse, and horrify, all ye adgrunts out there. No, not because there's a scary mummy in the ad, and not even b
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Folgers vs. Pizza Hut

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The Mexican version of "in an absolut world" map of North America, ticks off people in the USA

The Mexican version of the north american map in their installment of the "In an absolut world" campaign, LA Times blogs gossips that the ad
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Google vs. Sonox: wa the hell?....

PETA "Fur is a drag" offends transgendered

Showtime vs ACLU, parody or plagarism?

Remember when ACLU wentall flag-waving patriotic in a campaign shot by Peter Gerke?
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Military Stories - Badlanded

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Ad agency sues client for 1.5 million after lost pitch

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Obama really really really wants to be President.

Joe Woody vs. Taco Bell

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Well, at least he drives a prius, right?

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Crispy Frickin' Chicken freaks out street preacher

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