Too graphical?

Post date: Jan 15 2002 - 16:14

Two southamerican posters, cheekily refering to each other.

Last years banned ads

Post date: Jan 6 2002 - 00:10

Every year, the amount of ads that are banned or pulled seem to rise. British regulators are too quick to ban complain ad agency heads and creatives in the UK.
In Sweden - liberal land of the free - more ads are banned as they are discriminating against women. Though nudity isn't always the reason ads are banned - sometimes humour is.

Read more to see a selection of banned ads.

Body Shop's "Ruby" Barbie doll banned from the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway

Post date: Nov 27 2001 - 22:21

Ah, Ruby, you nipless plump anti-Barbie. It's been in every Body Shop window since 1998. First you tick off Mattel, and now you're banned from the Hong Kong rail system. Something about pubic hair & nipples. Or the distinct lack of either. (No, this isn't a banned ad per se, it's just refused from certain media venues, but the Hong Kong transit system is large enough to count for a sorta-ban).

Anti Roddick says it best;

HBO vs FANTA

Post date: Nov 13 2001 - 21:04

Alert! Warning, drinking soft drinks causes funny hair. and apparently, so does TV.

Swat that Bug!

Post date: Nov 5 2001 - 13:04

Now this bugs me. And it bugs Errol who brings this to my attention - "I actually saw this ad in a community/family paper, three months before i read Campaign Brief Asia." he says about the first campaign - and the second makes him ask; "Now who copied who?... was it just a mere coincidence?... I'm sure there are ads out there which have tried the upside down trick routine too.".

You Fruitcakes!

Post date: Sep 30 2001 - 17:26

What's the difference between Jam and Juice? None - apparently...

Men in Skirts!

Post date: Sep 30 2001 - 17:26

making fun of scottish kilts and bathroom signs at the same time. Whoa. How original.

Sing the praise of.. plagerising...

Post date: Sep 9 2001 - 14:18

The singing body parts. Two commercials using a nifty post trick to make a body sing.

Opium Spikes Ale Sales

Post date: Aug 30 2001 - 04:22

It had to happen. Deemed the most offensive ad of 2001, Opium's pale nude Sophie Dahl ad has inspired a Newcastle Brown spoof.

That is not a pearl of an idea.

Post date: Jun 26 2001 - 06:08

a pearl is a rare beautiful thing, when grown in nature. Hat off to Jesper on adlist who found these gems.

We have officially run out words people...

Post date: Jun 11 2001 - 17:26

When making good headlines - have a thesaurus at hand. MMk?

Adland-meme?

Post date: Jun 8 2001 - 18:17

Clayton alerted me and the adlisters to a new site out there this morning, Marketing-Myopia.com, and I looked it over briefly, not all too suprised about it's similarities with Adland, until I read the part on how he found it:"FYI: This was found via a June 5 mention at zeldman.com Jeffrey Z's usually against this sort of thing, 'specially since his site's been scavenged by others so many times - is this Alanis Morissette-style

Dabitch in Badland!

Post date: May 11 2001 - 17:26

It was bound to happen..... *hanging my head in shame*....

Resexsion?

Post date: Apr 10 2001 - 20:24

That Opium poster with the pale white nude Sophie Dahl - is now banned in most countries, like prude old Sweden and shockingly - Great Britain. Meanwhile back in Soho, FCUK are in trouble for that name again, you really should see Trevor Beattie's respons to that here. Stateside Ikea sells furniture with a leather teddy and a whip. Is sex the only way to get attention (and banned) these days?

Captain Morgan's secret pirate treasure - uncovered after 25 years!

Post date: Feb 20 2001 - 06:43

You can picture it now: An advertising agency standing before the formidable board of rum lords Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, pitching an earth shattering idea in a pitch that will make all other contenders pale by comparison...

Seagrams: Is your idea original and innovative?

Ad agency: Hell yeah!

Seagrams: Will it sell boatloads of our Captain Morgan rum?

Ad agency: Hell yeah!

Seagrams: So what's your original and innovative idea that'll sell boatloads of our Captain Morgan rum?

Ad agency: Fake facial hair!

Seagrams: Excuse me?

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