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PETA's bukkake "don't swallow" ad pulled

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By Dabitch on 09 Dec 2014, 13:37

PETA; true to their tasteless sexist form decided to erect a billboard in Nottingham protesting milk. “Some bodily fluids are bad for you. Don't swallow. Ditch Dairy.” the line read, next to an image of a woman whose face and hair had chunks of white stuff sprayed all over it. Yes, it looks like bukkake, and considering the cheeky line, that was the point.

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Sainsbury's christmas ad attracts 240 ASA complaints and is Badlanded.

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By Dabitch on 16 Nov 2014, 13:32

No sooner had the Sainsbury's - 1914 Christmas truce advert been aired, before the Guardian had Ally Fogg calling the ad 'a dangerous and disrespectful masterpiece' in their comment is free section, prompting +1000 comments debating the virtue of using historical events in ads.

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Updating facebook in realtime via your bracelet x2

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By Dabitch on 14 Nov 2014, 12:48

You remember the "real life like buttons that Coca Cola used in their amusement park back in 2010? A very simple idea, user data in IDF bracelets, allowed teens to "like" things as they enjoyed the park, and it updated their facebook in realtime. The park itself enjoyed the ability to brag about the most "liked" rides and the extended social media outreach gossiping teens provided.

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Giant pink condoms covering tall things - Twice

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By Dabitch on 11 Nov 2014, 19:18

When the giant hot pink condom in Sydney was put on a landmark in Sydney last week, we had a severe sense of Deja Vu. The Aids Council of New South Wales (Acon) created the “I’m ON” campaign to encourage safe sex among gay men, but it's not the first time we've seen giant pink condoms raising Aids awareness.

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Dumb ad ban of the week: The UNT mug

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By Dabitch on 22 Oct 2014, 20:49

Firebox the jokey site that sells risqué sillyness like the Stress Mushrooms has been slapped on the wrist by the ASA for displaying "the UNT mug" prominently on their page. The UNT mug has, according to descriptions, excellent beverage serving abilities, oddly familiar selection of letters and a C-shaped handle. That's the funny.

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Making your portfolio look like Lürzers Archive: Badlanded!

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By Dabitch on 11 Oct 2014, 01:37

This Badlander is fun! Creatives René Schultz and Casper Christensen wanted to get their portfolio in front of creative directors, who are notoriously hard to get an appointment with. They decided to disguise their portfolio as Lürzer's Archive magazine, containing all of their work, QR codes leading to online videos and even fake interview articles with themselves.

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Sleepy Hollow apologises for #Headless campaign's timing as ISIS beheads another journalist

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By Dabitch on 03 Sep 2014, 18:19

Sleepy Hollow was promoting it's release to DVD and the shows new season with a hashtaggged "#HeadlessDay" promotion... which happened to be mailed out just as the news about the Steven Sotloff’s death reached the world. The campaign consists of meme-jokes with the tagline "Happy Headless Day from Sleepy Hollow" and the timing is terrible. The idea was that people could share the memes on social media and tag them #HeadlessDay - yikes.

ThinkJam who created the campaign immediately issued an apology and pulled the campaign from running now.

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Harnessing CATS to save the TIGER, times three.

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By Dabitch on 31 Jul 2014, 03:11

A while back, Swedish Creative (Art) Director Kenneth Pilo of Pilo Bold Me showed off his case study of the long-running catfood campaign to save the tigers he helped create in Sweden. The brand Lantmännen Doggy & Tetra Pak donated a chunk of the income from you buying their cat food to help save the tigers via the WWF. But better still, cats could become a tigers sponsor, adopting a tiger and promising to donate to them every month.

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Stop churning out the Selfie hashtag idea: it's not original and was never any good.

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By Dabitch on 22 Jul 2014, 00:09

Listen up, brands and social media people, there's one idea so over-used in advertising today that it has its own tumblr Badland site. You see, Your Selfie Idea is Not Original, and that selfie idea is trotted out at least once a day in the ad-world, and no matter what brand signs off on it, the campaign is rubbish. Well, apart from that Samsung underwater selfie stunt, because that was a pretty cool product benefit demonstration.

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AirBnB rebrand is bollocks. AirBnB revamps their logo for (ahem) a sexier image.

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By Dabitch on 16 Jul 2014, 23:14

AirBnB launched a new design today, complete with a new logo. The "Bélo" logo, which it's called internally, is an upper-case A, but people are already snickering about it looking like labia or a scrotum. To make matters worse (funnier?) AirBnB invite you to draw your own symbol with the design toolkit. Let the lewd illustration competition begin. The tagline? "Belong Anywhere." Twitter is tittering about the logo and cracking jokes all day long, Buzzfeed got to make yet another list, and everyone is sending twitpics of the logo around.

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adidas "House Match" vs. Nike's "Home Game"

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By kidsleepy on 08 Jun 2014, 16:06

adidas just dropped a new World Cup spot featuring Zidane and Beckham going on a not-so-friendly match inside their house against Lucas Moura and Gareth Bale.
Well, it's a new spot for adidas, anyway. Let's go back to 2004 when Nike Football had a similar approach only this time it was Thierry Henry tearing up his house in some quasi fantastic world in which members of the opposing team knock on his door ready to play.

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Toyota Camry Thrillride vs #NissanROYL

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By Dabitch on 27 May 2014, 12:45

Looks like it's time to Badland the car bait&switch. First Toyota showed us the ThrillRide last year, where a track was built outside Magic Mountain, and excited roller coaster fans got to try being passengers in a "boring" car doing all sorts of un-boring tricks. The stunt drivers went fast, up, down, in reverse and the passengers all were surprised that Camry could be so exciting. Like, wow.

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"The toughest job in the world" - the job interviews, twice in Badland

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By Dabitch on 13 May 2014, 16:43

So it's time to Badland "the worst job in the world", the idea where one wastes job seekers time just to talk to them about an unpaid position as "director of operations" where you have to be on call twenty four hours a day, where there's no sick leave, no vacation etc. Now, Our friend Joelapompe already Badlanded it so lets just recap.

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Hyundai and Innocean Do Another Dumb Way To Die

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By James_Trickery on 08 May 2014, 17:46

Last year in the final scramble to produce an award-winning entry for Cannes, Innocean Europe released the controversial suicide-by-exhaust-fumes film ”Pipe Job” för the Hyundai ix35. You know, the suicide-by-car idea that is officially older than dirt, or least already done back in 1997.

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Testicular Cancer waxing ad a bit like FatBoy Slim "Bushes" video

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By Dabitch on 04 Apr 2014, 20:50

Did anyone else feel that the setup of hot waxing of the nether regions while filming the facial reactions in the recent Testicular Cancer Awareness ad was a bit familiar? No? Just me? Perhaps, but all I could think of was the 90s hit from Fat Boy Slim - Bushes - and the music video that came with it. They say that as many as 74 women and 2 men agreed to have their faces filmed while undergoing a bikini line wax in order to make the Fat Boy Slim music video.

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