Badland

Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 11:43

Beers named "Drink Responsibly", an idea so good it's been done four times

Naming a beer "Drink Responsibly" is such a good idea we were kicking ourselves for not thinking of it first when we first shared the UK campaign created by McC

dupliclaims, featured, adrants

Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 12:08

Tyler Shields, the decapitation of Trump and stolen inspiration

We've seen this so often that we have an entire section named Badland, usually to discuss the copying of ideas - everything from

adnews, dupliclaims, featured

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 04:18

Swedish anti-racist organisation rips of German anti-Nazi idea - raise money when neo-Nazis march

The Swedish anti-racism organisation called "Inte rasist, men..." (which translates to "Not a racist, but...") organised charity run for the first of May in Falun, where members of Nordfront, the Nordic National Socialist movement, were going to

misc, Banned ads, marketing mishaps

Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 11:02

Nivea get into trouble for “White Is Purity” ad that talks about a pure white robe

There's a lot of things that can go wrong when you translate a global or near global campaign, I've been there.

misc, dupliclaims, marketing mishaps

Saturday, February 25, 2017 - 15:54

LA Times & Propublica's "We will not shut up" T-shirts

As we've snarked, since advertising can not support a newspaper alone and people no longer pay for the product they consume, newspapers will like musicians have to "adapt" and make T-shirts.

misc, adnews, dupliclaims

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - 11:40

Der Spiegel cover: Trump beheads statue of Liberty - twice

This Der Spiegel cover caused a lot of reactions today, it practically filled my entire Twitter feed all morning.

misc, dupliclaims, marketing mishaps

Sunday, May 29, 2016 - 17:55

Chinese detergent company apologise & blame media for over-amplification of 'racist' black man ad.

Shanghai Leishang Cosmetics, who created the washing powder ad that went viral, says "sorry” for harm caused by foreign media's "over-amplification" of ad.

misc, dupliclaims, marketing mishaps

Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 09:37

"Feel the Bern" Bernie spoof STD check campaign reaches NYC

We've previously spotted the AIDS Healthcare Foundation Free STD check "Bernie" logo spoof on billboards in Los Angeles, where it resided a

adnews, dupliclaims, featured

Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 10:06

Lyst introduces "the canine collection" gets smacked by RSPCA & badlanded

Update Lyst has sent out a press release, which we quote it in full at the end of this article, with no other edits to our original article which was written this morning.

adnews, dupliclaims, featured

Saturday, May 7, 2016 - 11:30

180 LA's Snapchat geo-poaching vs the #FilterInfiltrator

Copywriter Juan Davila Morris is probably not all that impressed with 180's recent poaching tactic which uses

digital, dupliclaims, media

Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 12:43

Twin logos of the week: Meet Brave the browser lion & Workfront Lion

This simply amused me - am not saying these logos are identical or even inspired by each other.

adnews, dupliclaims

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 20:32

Sid Lee does unoriginal "Trump against humanity" -PATHETIC!

As Donald Trump has been racing up the polls, ad agencies all over the US & Canada have been doing their best to make creative anti-Trump stuff.

misc, dupliclaims, marketing mishaps

Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 09:29

The Sweden number is slowly failing, just like #Call Brussels did

I keep telling people who work in advertising to "get out of advertising", to find their inspiration elsewhere.

adnews, Banned ads

Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 08:13

GAP Kids pulls and apologized for ad people thought racist. Nobody blinked at last years ad.

GAP Kids and Ellen DeGeneres have been making their "girl power" fun filled ads for a two years now, each ad showing kids of all sizes and, yes, ethnicities who aren't just pretty faces on a billboard but also are skater queens, drummers