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Amazing adhoax, Global and Transport for London (TfL) denies that Gymbox bus-top ad exists.

Well, it seems someone has been fibbing.

Aerial classes at Gymbox are being promoted through bus-top ads. They're not the first bus-top ads.

Gymbox's latest out-of-home campaign is advertising its aerial gym classes on the roofs of London buses, rather than on their sides.
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Stevie Wonder never did an Atari ad - you've been had

If you stumbled upon that Stevie Wonder ad where our great musician proclaims "If I could play video game, you bet it would be ATARI", and t

John St: ExFEARiential - (2013)

WARNING: The snark-quotient is high in this prank-ad.
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Badly timed viral "It could happen to all of us" backfires due to recent events

Earlier this week a cryptic message appeared on the spookily named domain https://itcouldhappentoallof.us/. Say what?
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The red light district "Stop Traffik" stunt wasn't done in the red light district.

Is a good idea still a good idea when it falls in the woods and nobody can hear it scream?
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The Excorcist in Cannes Lions - not signed off by the client? Seems not... yet.

You have to read this in the voice of Peter Falk (may he R.I.P) as I watched too much Columbo as a kid.
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Vodafone case study credits the January 25 Egyptian revolution to... a Vodafone ad.

There's been much chatter about this Vodafone case study, which looks at an ad campaign created by advertising agency JWT for telecom giant Vodaf
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The Alpha-1 fake wrapping of the statue of Liberty

So the story goes "12 rolls of industrial shrink wrap, 8 messengers, 1 mission", and the mission is to wrap the statue of liberties head in
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Alfa Romeo - Expedition 147: Alfa Romeo advertises on lowest point on earth.

Expedition 147: Alfa Romeo advertises on lowest point on earth. What for? To bring home the point that they have really low prices. Oh dear.

Ivar's Undersea billboard was a hoax - but a good one.

The Denver Egotist reports on the undersea billboards hoax, a stunt pulled by Ivar’s Seafood Restaurant in Seattle has veered off the storytelling map
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D&AD will name and shame ad scammers - ECD has to vouch for each entry.

In the wake of the DDB WWF fallout, One Show promised 5 year punishment and now the D&AD have followed suit, sorta.
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DDB Brazil did make a commercial for WWF 911 / Tsunami - it was submitted to Cannes Lions 2009.

Yesterday emails were flying around the globe where people wondered about the consistency from DDB, first denying they ever made a commercial in their
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Cheating Husband = Hoax

So, then, didya hear the one about the guy forced by his wife to stand at a busy intersection with a sandwich board reading "I cheated.
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Scam ads for another agencies client wins awards - what would jesus do?

This ad, showing Jesus snapping a picture of a bunch of nuns with the Samsung SL310W camera, was published in Lebanese newspaper Al Mostakbal last wee
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Daily Mail fakes "muslim uproar" over puppy in police hotline advert?

July 1st, the Daily Mail headlined an article Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat and explained in
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Neo Sports Cannes Lion winning film is a rip-off and a scam ad to boot.

The silver Lion winning has turned out to be yet another scam ad in the prestigious Cannes award.
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Highlighters vs Blacking out text.

Remember the Luxor Highlighters campaign from Leo Burnett Mumbai? Yes, it even won a nice shiny Gold Lion at the Cannes awards in press.
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JC Penney dresses down Saatchi for fake speed dressing ad

Saatchi & Saatchi won a Cannes Bronze Lion over the weekend for their racy JC Penney Speed Dressing commercial.
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Spec work going around the web as real ads - is there any way to stop that? Should we even try?

Remember that Toyota Prius campaign that Well, at least he drives a prius, right?

Mythbusters tried "dynamite surfing" just like in that viral ad.

Politiken.dk tells Danish viewers to catch the Mythbusters episode "lead ballon" on the Discovery Channel on Sunday, as the mythbusters team
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Adult Swim ATHF LED billboards cause havoc in Boston, MA

A guerilla marketing stunt for Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force by Interference Inc., NYC turned the city of Boston upside down for a while to
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Popsecret "fan site" created by professionals.

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The Attention Economy and Hoax Marketing

The information age has become an attention economy. Michael H.
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Advertising is going to hell. Handbasket not included.

Not since that horrid Beverly Hills formula toothpaste ad with the peeping son and the nakid mum have we seen an ad go so horribly...horribly wrong.
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Google to advertise on the moon

You know it's April 1st when you read a story abut *any* brand branding the Moon. Google plans to brand its logo into the surface of the moon
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Correction Fluid ads that never were, never seen again

We've obliged the ad agency involved and removed the spec ads for a brand of correction fluid which initially were sent in and posted as live wor
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Correction fluid HQ in the USA, tells us to remove Correction fluid Chile ads.

Well there's no real way to sugarcoat that one, aye?

VW Polo - Suicide Bomber - (2005) :45 (UK)

For the rumormill as it happened, read VW Polo viral - the punchline kills. For interviews with the creators check:
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VW Polo viral - the punchline kills. (uk)

The punchline will kill you. (Scroll down to view the spot.)
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Volvo's spoof within a spoof for the S40- Mystery of Dalarö.

A new Volvo ad , a "documentary" (rather, a mockumentary), tells about the "mystery of Dalarö" where 32 families bought the same m

Volvo S40 - The Mystery of Dalaro - (2004)

Read more about the campaign in this article here: "The Mystery of Dalarö - a spoof within a spoof.
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Puma Ads still making headlines

This article in Slate talks about the allegedly fake puma ads also covers the cease and desist orders and the Nokia ads, and yet doesn't mention
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Nokia Says Nope, That Kitty Bashing Spot Ain't Ours

Somebody else has pulled a puma (referring to the feline, not the recently and unfairly beleaguered sports brand) and released a pseudvert a la viral
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flirt, squirt and sex sells?

... OR does it? Is this a case of dupliclaims - or are these just wet dreams of creatives?
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Storm Clouds over Cannes again.

Ogilvy & Mather worldwide are pulling a classic ad agency vs awards tiff out in the press.
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