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Ads imitate cartoons at Cannes - again.

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Booze that bites - visuals that bite - Smirnoff Black Ice

Smirnoff - Black Ice
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Honda vs. Mercedes

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Clear Channel Communications refuses anti-war ads

Poses overexposed!

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Bud Light vs. Isenbeck (Yoga vs. Ballet)

Cult shaker at it again, doubles the nudes.

Cult Shaker didn't get enough attention for their last stunt I suppose, and are at it again, begging for hype by covering bus posters and other o
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Queen vs Bauer & Borsato

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Stepford wives - Rice and Clinton

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Sloggi is in another bumfight!

Advertising icons breaking bread like the last supper - times two!

It's been a minute since Claymore showed us "the last pancake breakfast" by Dick Detzner 
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UK bans junk food ads aimed at children

It was bound to happen after all the alerts in the news about advertising effects on children, and how it was linked to obesity.
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Busy ad-banning season in Australia - toad ad caned

A Tooheys New beer has been pulled after complaints that it was cruel to cane toads - in the ad three men were seen using the poor critters as golf ba
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No nipples please, we're British.

An ad that encourages Europeans to vote has been re-edited for Britain, editing out part of a scene where a young woman breastfeeds her baby. The CAA
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TV2 says punters don't watch ads shown on TV2

What a way to diss your main income - TV2 bossman let Politiken know what their real reason for dropping all their advertising slots during the live f
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Armani in trouble over ad that "sexualized children"

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Best ass wins - Sloggi and Daewoo competition.

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Goodby Ripping Off. . . McClain Finlon?

To be fair, I don't know who is ripping off who here.
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France: Wake up and smell the statistics

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What a pair of boobs

Two years ago radioshow hosts Jim Krenn and Randy Baumann got some media attention for their billboard, this year radioshow hosts Lex and Terry are ge
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Milk - where did you get that mustache?

It took me way too many years to find the "original" mustache campaign that I remember from when I was a little kid - found deep down in the
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French's vs. Burger King vs. A-1

How is this possible? Three commercials running at the same time with the same concept?
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Visual dead on arrival

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The Dangers of Chicken and Watermelon

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Orgasms affect short-term ad-memory?

Or perhaps they've been playing with themselves so much they have gone blind on used adconcepts - Trojan condoms versus the sexy and controversia
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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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Trump wants to trademark "you're fired".

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Ads in space - revisited.

Every so often in adland reports about ads in Space pop up.
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M&Ms - Colorized

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Big ideas in small logos - twice.

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Aflac vs. Flonase

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N-Gage ads deemed "offensive" and "distressing"

Nokia's N-Gage ads, created by Grey Advertising have been banned by Britain's ad watchdog, the ASA, because they could be seen to encourage

Sechs in billboards

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Coca cola storm in a tap-water cup

Coke's Dasani launch in the uk isn't going well.
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Eminem sues Apple over TV commercial tune

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Canadian networks too chicken to run PETA ads.

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iTunes Pepsi bottle caps have bad ink

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Cisco vs. AOL

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Lincoln Navigator vs. Fiat

Hot Pockets vs. Beef

What’s for dinner? Well, it depends on what you’re in the mood for.
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David Bedford to sue the number

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10 years later EA Sports copies Nike

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HaidaBucks stares down Starbucks

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Shag Cigarettes Ignite Another Controversy

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Pentax makes an ass out of themselves in full page ad.

Pentax has launched a new camera with the odd name *ist. To announce their new gem they took out full page ads in Swedish photography magazine FOTO c
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Gwyneth drinks Martini, for seven million dollars.

Gwyneth Paltrow never drinks, and she adheres to a strict healthy diet.
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Ace Window Cleaners v/s Stella Neo

Creative teams are getting more ecofriendly.
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More flies in the honey

After seeing Grey Aukland's Cannes award winning ad for No Bugs insect spray, I thought I had seen something very similar before, besides the Gar
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Suggestive Red Devil posters banned

No Trademark for Jesus Jeans

Luxembourg-based clothing brand Jesus Jeans has had its application for a trademark in the UK turned down by the Patent Office because the name is de
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Toyota offends Chinese consumers

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It's an immaculate concept -PETA

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Metro ad for Marijuana miffs lawmaker.

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Covenant House vs. ING

Fun with Foster's, decapitation by waterfowl.

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Rizla advert banned over 'drug reference'

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The Naked chef a bit risque, full frontal fruit

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Heinz vs. Melita

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Moron marketers misinterpret mischief, run amuck with meaningless monikers.

A little while back, The Design Conspiracy concocted a website, What Brand Are You, to rip on the recent proliferation of sh*tty and nonsensical compa
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Mmmm.... tastes like ass?

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Barnardo shocking ads gets complaints.

Barnardo's uses shock tactics to tackle child poverty, this strategy has backfired.
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VW Touareg can't do what the ads say it can do.

Too sexy FHM ad banned by ASA

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TV show cheat's ad complaint rejected

Major Charles Ingram and his wife who filed a complaint about an Easy Jet ad, have had their complaint rejected.
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Hot Air, Helium, Huffing and Toys R Us

Once again, parents gripe to the media about a commercial instead of sitting down with their children and explaining things to them.
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WE Spank fashion ad has been withdrawn after complaints.

WE Sweden are in trouble for the way they advertise their underwear.
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David Bedford demands compensation from The Number

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Ms Ambassador, you spoil us.

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Grey rents big brother studio for their recruits

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Terra Boots terrorised by boot clad women

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Sloggi has gone one pole too far.

Sloggi has finally gone one butt too far - Triumph the brand behind Sloggi, has been asked by the French advertising sector association to withdraw a

Naked soccer players selling pizza

Grey Oslo (Norway) created a sexy campaign using the naked bodies of their national soccer team players to sell pizza and Chinese food,
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Hooters vs. Cup of Noodle

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