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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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advertise on your forehead

formerly a daring fashion move reserved for (bone)heads and their Union Jack Flags - Now even the posh Guardian wants you to label your forehead.
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beer and twins

<p><i>I love football on TV,<br /> Shots of Gina Lee,<br /> Hanging with my friends,<br /> And twins!</i><br
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Nike won't have it.

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Moms outrage against Nike nudity

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Corn Pops - Skateboard (2003) - 0:30 (USA)

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Transforming ideas

It's been a while since we've seen this kind of Badlander*. The original is a web movie - an animation made by some talented freelancers

Audio Badland - Levis vs. Intel

Magic Carpet?

These two advertisers couldn't be more different, and their commercials couldn't be more similar.

Guinness - Lava - aka Volcanos, Committees, Whiners and Beer

After receiving a few humourless complaints, it seems that the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland decided yesterday to ban a Guinness commerc

Dirtier than they thought.

Mazda Protege 5 - Zoom Zoom - Seat Belt Light (2002) - 0:30 (USA)

This ad was banned
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Microsoft switch goes sour

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ad translation bites.

In Stockholm 7-11 are currently running ads promoting their hot dogs. Someone should have told them what their headline means in french

Walking billboard.

Tobacco has always been a hard sell, and not even copycat creative can help it. Click continue to view the good and the bad.

Phwoar - says the queen over sex-ad.

An advert for Ann Summers chain of sex/lingerie shops, depicting the Queen reading a sex manual next to the line "Phwoar, must get one", has
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"emotional bond with batteries"

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McDonald's Promotion Killed on Safari

Working for Scales - The Dangers of Stock Photography

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wine makers sue government for anti-drink ads

I thought I'd seen it all in the court cases concerning ads..
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Vodaphone shows their true colors.

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I see ghosts - plural! - Interview with the creators of ghost

Here's a dupliclaim I never thought would happen, but I have seen many many ghosts lately.
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Ceasar sues McDonald's - for making him fat

An obese New Yorker is suing four leading US fast food chains, McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC who he accuses of being responsible for hi

Piercing ideas - twice. Ouch!

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The cola wars get hot

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Ice Breakers - She Smiled (2002) - 0:30 (USA)

She smiled!

God v/s God

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Photocopied concept

Imagistics - Jamming at 2pm - (2002) :30 (USA)

You are getting sleepy....

Zippo revisits Ogilvy's hypnotist idea - with a twist . The company said the results not only confirmed Zippo's image as the maker of a c

dumb ad ban of the week

a job advert asking for a "friendly" employee has been deemed to be "not fair to unfriendly people". "We were told we coul

women are cows!

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A house with a nice southern overexposure.

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Stepping in doggy duo.

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Arla treat women like cows.

Arla treat women like cows.
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7up, starring Buck Nekkid - It's the Mountain Dew of deja vu.

After seeing that 7up has agreed to pull its "Captive Audience" spot, I an reminded of what happened last year with 7up, pixilated nudity an

7up pulls prison spot

The little old ladies from... prison?
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Nike gagged.

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Mitsubishi vs. Volkswagen

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Digital ads in "Spider man" have Super Sign filing suit against Sony

C|Net reports that 'Digital ads entangle "Spider-Man"' for digitally superimposing billboards in Time Square, thus eating into the
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Badland get watered down - Big time

The Snuggle Struggle - a badland counterstrike

FCUK and "Kinkybugger"

French Connection founder Stephen Marks has apologized for last year's "kinkybugger" campaign, admitting it was "a mistake"

Teaser ads gone wrong?

I'm not so sure this confusion with Met Life/mLife is more from the name than the advertising.
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distracting TV : Fox sports

Levis vs. Harp

At first I thought it was the kid's Levis that made him walk funny...

Doodle Trouble

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Levis copies Levis uk?

Two films use the same post trick, to explain "twisted to fit" vs.. well.. what exactly? Flyweight?

Hyundai vs. Volkswagen

What do we have here? Two very different car companies with the exact same TV commercial, even down to the music!
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homage to a better ad?

Randall Cosco gets Adbusters shown on CNN

Vancouver based photographer Randell Cosco has burned a few bridges and flags in his life, but he wasn't quite prepared for the hoopla his image
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Peeping Tomfoolery -- OR -- Close Encounters of the Ad Kind

Storm Clouds over Cannes again.

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

ART IMITATING ART

Err umm there is a disturbing similarity between the D&AD award winning Britart.com campaign from Mother and the ADCNY award-winning L.A.

Deer friendly ad offends hunters.

The jeep ad that had hunters up in arms was pulled off the air by Chrysler.
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Too graphical?

Two southamerican posters, cheekily refering to each other. Jason pops his head in on the list with this message:
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New York Times - now with TV commercials

Last years banned ads

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PLEASE ADVERTISE

Stopping advertising to save money, is like stopping your watch to save time.

PLEASE ADVERTISE

HBO vs FANTA

Swat that Bug!

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Polygamy-Porter offends mormons.

Sprite - Skateboard (2001) - 0:30 (USA)

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You Fruitcakes!

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Men in Skirts!

Opium Spikes Ale Sales

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

Agency Gets Costly Dot-Com Lesson

Though they're an e-biz flunk out, bankrupt ecampus.com wound up teaching former agency DeVito/Verdi a thing or two about dot commerce.
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That is not a pearl of an idea.

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We have officially run out words people...

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Adland-meme?

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 ab

Ambient media - in and out of fashion?

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TBWA/Chiat/Day just/shiat/their/pants

Source: MacNN - New York Times sports writer Mike Wise's coverage of the weekend's Western Conference Finals Game 3 between the San Antonio
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The Swoosh Is In Your Court

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Tres cool - Now THIS is ad placement!

Dabitch in Badland!

It was bound to happen..... *hanging my head in shame*....
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City fights back - pavement not adspace

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Naked Sophie scores even more free PR.

The now infamous Sophie Dahl Opium ad has become the most offensive ad of 2000. It'll go down in history kids!

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