A woman in a revealing medieval frock sits perched atop a hay bale, declaring "I love a good session on the Bishop's Finger"
by: Dabitch, Oct 25 2006 - 4:24pm
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For CK its old hat, way back in 1980 the 15 year old Brooke Shield ads were 'banned' off CBS - source Flesh for Fantasy in New York Magazine
by: Dabitch, Sep 9 2006 - 9:24pm
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Yeah ...well at least I avoided "goulash" in the heading. I'm pissed off. The Hungarians have pulled my favourite Tourism ad.
by: malkie66, Aug 2 2006 - 4:15pm
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by: caffeinegoddess, Jul 5 2006 - 6:58pm
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Just Like Us Child Sponsorship advert banned
by: Dabitch, Jun 1 2006 - 10:37am
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A poor worker always blames his tools. In this case, it might be true, even for a chainsaw-wielding maniac.
by: Dabitch, May 18 2006 - 11:22pm
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A Suzuki spot by Nexus/H has been pulled in the UK. Viewers complained they heard a man say "I fucking love you" at the end of the spot.
by: caffeinegoddess, Apr 11 2006 - 2:10pm
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The ad story that just won't die this month seems to be Australia's "Where the bloody hell are you?" campaign.
by: caffeinegoddess, Mar 24 2006 - 3:56pm
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The British restriction on the Australian tourism ad "Where the bloody hell are you?" which was not allowed to run in its original form beca
by: caffeinegoddess, Mar 18 2006 - 3:39pm
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The end of last month we reported on Australia's new tourism campaign featuring the tagline, "Where the bloody hell are you?".
by: caffeinegoddess, Mar 9 2006 - 2:12pm
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Diesel's Scoprion ad has been banned by the ASA after a run in The Sunday Times Style Magazine lead to complains.
by: caffeinegoddess, Mar 8 2006 - 3:05pm
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We've obliged the ad agency involved and removed the spec ads for a brand of correction fluid which initially were sent in and posted as live wor
by: Dabitch, Mar 7 2006 - 2:55pm
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Today Australia launches a new AUD$180-million international advertising campaign to promote itself as a tourist destination.
by: caffeinegoddess, Feb 23 2006 - 5:11pm
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by: caffeinegoddess, Feb 16 2006 - 10:36pm
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A dairy advertising exec genius was just fined for "staging an obscene event" in Seoul, South Korea myway news reports.
by: Dabitch, Jan 22 2006 - 8:41pm
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The first ad victim of the ban-hammer is rather tame, but bound to offend someone in "80% Catholic" Lithuania.
by: Dabitch, Jan 18 2006 - 5:46pm
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by: Dabitch, Dec 14 2005 - 1:12pm
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Down in Belgium the animal rights activist group GAIA has gotten their anti-Foie gras campaign banned, sorta.
by: Dabitch, Dec 13 2005 - 12:55am
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Bluefly, "a leading online retailer of designer brands, fashion trends, and superior value," appears to have come out with a mag ad and TV c
by: claymore, Oct 31 2005 - 2:05am
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by: caffeinegoddess, Oct 3 2005 - 8:16pm
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Last week the NHL broke a new advertising campaign titled "My NHL".
by: caffeinegoddess, Sep 26 2005 - 7:54pm
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An ad campaign to save sea turtles in Mexico is getting some people angry.
by: caffeinegoddess, Aug 25 2005 - 7:11pm
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New Zealand's Hell Pizza chain is getting some backlash from its billboards around Auckland and Wellington which feature George Bush.
Outdoor
by: caffeinegoddess, Aug 12 2005 - 5:19pm
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They really didn't mean to be racist they say, but cosmetics maker Mandom Corp realise how bad their ad might look to some and have decided to pu
by: Dabitch, Jun 16 2005 - 11:43am
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Media Guardian reports that the Marmite "Love it or Hate it" Blob spot was pulled from kids' TV.
by: caffeinegoddess, Mar 16 2005 - 4:09pm
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The UK Advertising Standards Authority are getting miffed at FCUK again and have warned FCUK, this is the 13th time since 1999 that the ASA has publis
by: Dabitch, Jan 13 2005 - 4:57pm
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A planned ad for Pepsi, with David Beckham, Ronaldinho and Thierry Henry among others has been delayed indefinitely following the the tsunamis in Asia
by: Dabitch, Jan 5 2005 - 5:41pm
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This ad from the United Church of Christ which welcoming "all the people" into their congregation, was rejected by all three networks - see
by: Dabitch, Dec 15 2004 - 3:47pm
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It's all over the google news sources that China has banned the latest Lebron Nike ads as they are a national insult.
by: Dabitch, Dec 7 2004 - 2:52pm
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In the United States, we've been hearing a lot about the liberal media and we've been hearing it for a long time.
by: ernieschenck, Dec 6 2004 - 3:25pm
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The Newspaper Marketing Agency ad nicknamed "killer heels", created by TBWA London, which shows a man spiked on a stiletto has been banned b
by: Dabitch, Dec 1 2004 - 6:55pm
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Claymore quipped: FDA: "Wild Thing, I think I banned you!"...
This ad probably has, due to FDAs late reaction, pulled in quite a few new cu
by: Dabitch, Nov 16 2004 - 11:35pm
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A judge has ordered Pepsi to withdraw a television commercial that has angered child-labour activists.
by: Dabitch, Oct 11 2004 - 11:23pm
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by: Dabitch, Oct 8 2004 - 4:25pm
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SFGate reports that the Chevy Corvette ad directed by Guy Ritchie has become a PR nightmare.
by: Dabitch, Aug 26 2004 - 5:32pm
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Nike's new global ad, a spot on depiction of giggly teenage girls that have a crush on their handsome tennis instructor, has been withdrawn, due
by: Dabitch, Aug 19 2004 - 2:35pm
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A simple poster in the London underground urging people not to eat smelly foods while riding the tube has caused a bit of a diplomatic spat.
by: Dabitch, Aug 2 2004 - 2:36pm
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It was bound to happen after all the alerts in the news about advertising effects on children, and how it was linked to obesity.
by: Dabitch, May 31 2004 - 4:10pm
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A Tooheys New beer has been pulled after complaints that it was cruel to cane toads - in the ad three men were seen using the poor critters as golf ba
by: Dabitch, May 26 2004 - 12:17am
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Two years ago radioshow hosts Jim Krenn and Randy Baumann got some media attention for their billboard, this year radioshow hosts Lex and Terry are ge
by: Dabitch, Apr 25 2004 - 3:12pm
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Drag show artist Richard Engfors modeling bikinis
by: Dabitch, Mar 25 2004 - 2:05pm
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ERK the ethical advice group have been real busy banning ads lately.
by: Dabitch, Mar 24 2004 - 6:45pm
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Peta insists that Meat Can Cause Impotence, and so was the rejected Super Bowl Ad "Director's Cut" porn shoot idea born.
by: Dabitch, Feb 1 2004 - 10:18pm
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Just a little note to let everyone know what is going on with the whole p*ypal frozen account deal.
by: Dabitch, Jan 17 2004 - 2:13am
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Our paypal account as been frozen - right now we can not receive any donations for a super adgruntship that allows access to the commercial archives.
by: Dabitch, Jan 15 2004 - 4:42pm
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by: Dabitch, Nov 25 2003 - 4:34pm
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by: Dabitch, Nov 25 2003 - 3:31pm
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Foster's is in trouble once again for its mock-documentary advertising -- this time over a television ad that shows a reporter having his head bi
by: Dabitch, Nov 23 2003 - 4:45pm
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Barnardo's uses shock tactics to tackle child poverty, this strategy has backfired.
by: Dabitch, Nov 12 2003 - 5:45pm
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WE Sweden are in trouble for the way they advertise their underwear.
by: Dabitch, Oct 26 2003 - 8:13pm
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Grey Oslo (Norway) created a sexy campaign using the naked bodies of their national soccer team players to sell pizza and Chinese food,
by: Dabitch, Oct 8 2003 - 4:24pm
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Beckham, the first western celeb to be used in advertising campaigns in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, has been red carded by Irans advertisi
by: Dabitch, Sep 22 2003 - 8:12pm
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Even though the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of the Better Business Bureaus and the National Advertising Review Board (NARB) agr
by: caffeinegoddess, Aug 28 2003 - 11:31pm
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by: Dabitch, Aug 13 2003 - 1:23pm
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Yahoo biz! reports that Levi's are suffering from banned ad syndrome this week.
by: Dabitch, Aug 11 2003 - 8:57pm
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Levis "Born again" advert has been banned in New Zealand, reports stuff.co.nz.
The complains argued that the baptism imagery was highly o
by: Dabitch, Aug 11 2003 - 8:10pm
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Whoa,
The U.S. doesn't ban Viagra ads when Rafel Palmiero advertises for Viagra.
by: NYCKing55, Jul 26 2003 - 4:53am
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Azcentral reports that a billboard featuring a sultry-looking Bonnie-Jill Laflin will not be seen in Helena.
by: Dabitch, Jul 24 2003 - 5:27pm
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by: claymore, Jul 17 2003 - 7:14pm
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"Our culture and values are different from the West," he said. "We want to protect women's honour.
by: Dabitch, Jun 26 2003 - 11:15pm
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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
by: caffeinegoddess, Jun 11 2003 - 4:33pm
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The Independent reports that the Government believes the drinks industry has gone too far with their laddish jokes and sexy puns.
by: Dabitch, Jun 9 2003 - 3:33pm
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Advertising posters for US drama "Six Feet Under" have been banned.
Depicting corpses the posters sold luxury to die for , embalming flui
by: Dabitch, Jun 1 2003 - 1:24am
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The latest UK ban: A Sun newspaper commercial.
Reason this time around: A man inhales helium from a balloon.
Shocked! Shocked, I am!
Hmm...
by: claymore, May 28 2003 - 6:14am
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A village is attacked, a woman runs to save her child, fleeing the attack and the fire, but then she falls over a cliff.
by: Dabitch, May 27 2003 - 4:29pm
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Kvindeligt Selskab sent letters of complaint and want people to boyott Cult Shaker, due to their sexy advertising.
by: Dabitch, May 27 2003 - 2:41am
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Groups opposed to the U.S.-led campaign against Baghdad complain they have been blocked from airing anti-war advertisements on broadcast media increas
by: Dabitch, Apr 8 2003 - 2:59pm
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The advertising watchdog in the UK is investigating after receiving complaints that an adidas poster poked fun at the case of the convicted terrorist
by: Dabitch, Apr 6 2003 - 7:27pm
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Auckland , NZ : An advertising agency has been forced to cancel a marketing parody of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra after squabbling with pharm
by: Dabitch, Mar 29 2003 - 2:25pm
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A Mazda spot has been yanked in Australia because they drove too fast
by: claymore, Mar 23 2003 - 3:42am
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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.
by: claymore, Mar 21 2003 - 5:32am
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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
by: claymore, Mar 18 2003 - 4:22am
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by: Dabitch, Mar 2 2003 - 9:33pm
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The jury is in : the Gucci pubic hair logo ad featured earlier gets okay from ASA! Unexpected.
by: Dabitch, Feb 26 2003 - 5:49pm
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... OR does it?
Is this a case of dupliclaims - or are these just wet dreams of creatives?
by: Dabitch, Feb 22 2003 - 10:35pm
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by: Dabitch, Feb 8 2003 - 9:33pm
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"To advertise this launch we are releasing electric eels in UKs waterworks. That was you can experience shocks before purchase."
by: Dabitch, Feb 8 2003 - 9:00pm
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After receiving a few humourless complaints, it seems that the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland decided yesterday to ban a Guinness commerc
by: claymore, Oct 24 2002 - 1:26am
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by: claymore, Oct 18 2002 - 3:28am
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Many things have been tipped to win in Cannes, and some already have.
by: Dabitch, Jun 18 2002 - 3:43pm
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