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Heinz pulls their ‘It Ha-Ha-Has to Be Heinz’ campaign after accusations of racism

Heinz's "Smiles" Campaign: A Ketchup Conundrum or A Marketing Masterstroke?

It's not Christmas season until someone has to apologize for their Christmas advert.

Marks&Spencer get into trouble.

Anheuser-Busch quietly lets go of execs that were behind the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light fiasco

Anheuser-Busch's two highest-ranking marketing executives are no longer employed with the company following its recent reorganization.
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Kellogg's possibly facing boycott due to Tony the Tiger posing with Dylan Mulvaney

Well, this is an odd one, but several sources are claiming that Kellogg's is facing boycotts because Tony the Tiger posed with Dylan Mulvaney on
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Anheuser Busch awarded "Creative Marketer of the Year" at Cannes Lions despite Dylan Mulvaney flop

Getting "Creative Marketer of the Year" at Canne Lions isn't chickenshit, over the decades brands that worked very hard, and globally,

Innocent drinks asks "what is okay to say?" on trans issues, get enough backlash to delete their entire tweet thread.

Innocent drinks are your yummy fancy juice and smoothie mixes that we all have become fans of, as it's easy fruit, vitamins, and just plain good
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Target facing backlash over Abprallen "Pride" clothing collection, removes Abprallen items,

Target is facing criticism once again for its gay pride collection, this time due to its collaboration with a controversial designer.
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Adidas models "women's" pride swimsuit, on a male model. What happened to Unisex?

Here's a crazy idea, adidas, if you want your pride swimsuit to be worn by either sex, why don't you just dust off the old "unisex"
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Heckler & Koch tweet out against gun bunnies, in reply to fresh controversy over Miller Lite women's history month ad.

Heckler & Koch tweet out against gun bunnies, then lock down and clean controversial tweets from the account.
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Miller Lite catches backlash for women's history month ad in May

Now, this is quite odd timing, to me.
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Gay bars boycott Bud Light after Anheuser-Busch InBev's "anti-transgender actions and statements"

The never ending Bud Light saga has yet another update.
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Anthropologie uses dancer Harper Watters to show off dresses on their Instagram, backlash ensues.

In what seems to be an increasingly common occurrence, a brand hires a male to show off products targeted at women.
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Bud Light offers distributors free beer and change in ad direction in response to backlash over Dylan Mulvaney promotion

In Swedish we have a very odd idiom that translates to: "Now you've shat in the blue cabinet."
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Major swimwear label Seafolly is for sale only a couple of months after sparking backlash for hiring a trans model.

It was only in March that Seafolly sparked a major backlash for using a trans-identified model in an Instagram story celebrating pride month in Austra

LGBTQ group The Human Rights Campaign urges Bud Light to reaffirm support for trans community amid backlash over Dylan Mulvaney partnership

Anheuser-Busch gets called out for weak response to trans influencer backlash - HRC says 'be more than just liquid courage!'"
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Dylan Mulvaney as spokesperson for Nike women and Bud Light cause backlash.

Dylan Mulvaney's agents over at CAA are working hard for their money.
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In response to Hershey's "Her for She" the Dailywire launches Jeremy's chocolate binary

A few days ago Hershey's Canada released this year's version of their "Her for She" campaign,
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Tampax attempts to apologize for offensive tweet that triggered he #BoycottTampax hashtag

An update on the #BoycottTampax trending topic, Tampax tweeted on Saturday an apology.

#BoycottTampax trends after ill-advised tweet, as brand Tampax doubles down on it.

This is the story of how Tampax torpedoed its own brand.
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While Iranian women risk their lives protesting the compulsory hijab, Mathem in Sweden runs ads with a hijab-clad model.

Adding a bit of diversity in your ads by choosing models from minorities has been a go-to move by most brands for the past decade, but it's begin
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"Zoom in on that" Ulta

Ulta releases David Lopez interview discussing "Girlhood" with Dylan Mulvaney - receives prompt backlash and #BoycottUlta hashtag

When you are the leading brand with the largest market share of your niche, it makes sense to expand the market.
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Yoppie menstrual cycle care company calls its potential customers "bleeders", attracts ire

It sounds bonkers, but the CEO and founder of a menstrual cycle care company just called her potential customers thoroughly objectionable people.
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The Vagina Museum tweets about trans women on International Women's Day, say they're now harassed for it

The Vagina Museum decided to create a thread about Trans Women for #InternationalWomensDay
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New York Times under fire for new ad campaign "imagining Harry Potter without its creator"

The new ad campaign from the New York times with Becky, Lianna, Vera, Yassmin, and Jordan, has come under fire for "chilling" line referring
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John Lewis pulls their controversial "dancing boy" advert, but ad still lives on with new sender

The John Lewis ad with the boy dancing to Stevie Nicks attracted plenty of complaints as soon as it was released, so much so that John Lewis had to ta
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John Lewis takes to social media to explain their latest ad.

When I was in ad school our mentor John Gillard would - quite literally - tear our work apart.
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MeUndies releases "Harry Potter" underwear set, J K Rowling anti-fandom get their panties in a twist.

MeUndies joined in the fun for the spooky season by launching a collection of Harry Potter themed undie.
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Pantone launches new shade of red to end menstruation stigma

A campaign by color matching company aims to ‘emboldens people who menstruate to feel proud of who they are’
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Netflix apologizes for using artwork that sexualizes children to promote controversial film

The streaming service removed the poster but not the controversial film.
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Netflix goes the cheap route to appease the trans cause du jour, which may cost them.

As Kidsleepy noted in an earlier article headlined Wokevertising for fun and profit, advertising has a way of jumping onto the cause du jour head firs
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Tesco's "about bloody time" bandage product is accused of plagiarism.

As I pointed out already, Tesco's bandages for diverse skin are not the first, but now they're even accused of plagiarising the concept from
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SAS remove their "What is Scandinavian? Nothing" commercial after backlash

That was unexpectedly fast. SAS removed their "What is Scandinavian?
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SAS - What is truly Scandinavian? Nothing (2020) 2:42 (Denmark)

‘What is truly Scandinavian? And the answer is: absolutely nothing. ‘Our democracy? Credit goes to Greece. Parental leave? Thank you, Switzerland!’

Nubian Skin wins TFL's diversity in advertising competition, Mayor Sadiq Khan gets backlash on Twitter

The Nubian Skin billboard above was this year's winner of the TFL's competition to improve ethnic diversity in advertising.
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Dior launches new ad for Sauvage with Johnny Depp and Native Americans - get called out for appropriation.

A new teaser ad for an upcoming perfume fragrance called “Sauvage” that designer fashion house Dior bills as “an authentic journey deep into the Nativ

Coca-Cola features gay couples kissing in Hungary, an online petition calls for a boycott and ban of such ads.

At least one leading politician from Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party and conservative media outlets have called for boycotting Coke products or banning

Alex Schulman posts "At last!" on an image of burning Notre Dame, his sponsor Mat.se bears the brunt of it

The danger in sponsoring influencers' social media has always been the same as sponsoring a celebrity, they may mouth off and say something stupi
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Åhléns, ha det fint, nattning

Åhléns new ad in Sweden, showing a father reading Pippi Longstocking in Dari, gets backlash on social media

Åhléns has released a short video on their social media and selected TV-slots where man reads Astrid Lindgrens classic Pippi Longstocking book for his
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Dream Machine: The Backlash That Never Was

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SheaMoisture's growing pains as they expand market - social media backlash for ads

A funny thing happened on SheaMoisture's way to expanding their market share...
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Dave Trott: "It's Not Black and White" - but the backlash to anything usually is

I'm glad Dave Trott, ad-man with his name on many ad agency doors, and many ad books (Creative Mischief is one, Predatory Thinking another, both
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Home Depot spends all day apologizing for chimp-tweet

Home Depot on twitter is spending most of their work day apologizing for sending out the tweet above, where the question is: "Which drummer is no
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Tim Tebow's anti-abortion Superbowl ad already causing a backlash

Update It has been confirmed: CBS approved the script of the Tim Tebow commercial, despite their previous "No Advocacy in Advertising" polic

BMW Hellas - "You Know You're Not The First" (2009) printad (Greece)

BMW Hellas
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Twin towers 911 in advertising. Not new, so why the backlash this time?

Scarred adgrunts know that the image of burning twin towers have been used in advertising before. Why the backlash this time?
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Butler, Shine & Stern get boingboing backlash for their Lego viral

Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners has LucasArts games as client, there will soon be some Indiana Jones/Lego game as far as we can tell.
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Backlash in Australia over Coke Zero campaign

Bannerblog is covering the story of Coca-Cola's launch of Coke Zero in the Australian market.
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Cross-dresser too much for the Finns and the Lebanese.

Drag show artist Richard Engfors modeling bikinis
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