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Shut up and sell the product

I have always been against brands wading into the cultural conversation regarding any topic du jour for several reasons.
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Balenciaga’s controversial new campaign and the long history of ‘shockvertising’

Kim Kardashian is refining her personal brand. Right-wing news outlet Fox TV is gaining viewers through attention-grabbing headlines.
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The timeline of the Balenciaga ad fail saga

To keep track of everything happening in the Balenciaga saga, we've put together this helpful timeline.
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Adidas - Impossible Is Nothing - ‘I’mPossible’ (2022) :30 (USA)

Vicky Free, head of global marketing at Adidas says that she hopes  ”to unite a strong, diverse and powerful community of women athletes who are chang
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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

Stockholm Film Festival poster banned for using Pedro Almodóvar's lactating nipple image

Pedro Almodóvar's most recent movie, Parallel moms, has quite the eye-catching (heh) poster.
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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

Berlin Tourism pulls middle finger ad aimed at anti-maskers.

The ad got the pearl-clutchers screaming and a ton of earned media, which is what it was designed to do.
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The Adland Podcast ep 10: What will Will the agency do next?

Will the agency launched in Los Angeles recently vowing to fight cancel culture - and immediately got into trouble.
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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.

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

Hornbach - So riecht das Frühjahr / This is what spring smells like (2019) :45 (Germany)

Hornbach knows what spring smells like. It smells like sweaty men doing difficult landscaping jobs, and fixing up the house.
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Kraft Heinz Co's "Devour" brand buys media on Pornhub

Kraft Heinz Co.'s Devour brand took its food porn-themed Super Bowl campaign to an actual pornography site.
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Gavin McInnes fired for having a dissenting opinion

Adweek reported yesterday that Gavin McInnes was forced to take an indefinite leave of absence from his CCO role at New York shop, Rooster, following
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Is adidas racist or stupid?

Everybody's favorite German shoe company, adidas, decided the pair of JS Round House Mids with shackles would be just the thing to attract the hi
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Bob Parsons goes Elephant hunting: kills GoDaddy?

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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?

PETA puts up "Santa won't be coming this Christmas" billboard, get complaints.

PETA's latest shock campaign by the group "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals", has stirred controversy with its message that
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