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Double BLT magazine covers, NYT's "T" vs Coast a.k.a Toast.

New York Times blog finds that Coast Magazine is doing ye old 'sincerest form of flattery' thing regarding their own Spring 2007 cover of T
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Translate server error reveals serious priority error.

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Unfortunately Placed Hotels.com Ad

Hotels.com probably doesn't like Tech watch after this.

Poorly Timed Hotels.com Ad
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Nike's Freestyle Basketball youtube viral bores me like all other fake virals.

I'm getting sick of these fake stunts posted to youtube that are secret little ads, aren't you?
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Peachmobile Zim Zoo ad gets banned by the ASA for "lowering Robert Mugabe's dignity"

You'd think it couldn't be done, the "Lowering of dignity" bit that is, but the annoying ringtone with the equally annoying ad fro
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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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Sixth foot found and CNN banner ad steps in it.

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Brands on Candid Camera

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Denny's serve it up YouTube style

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Cumming, The fragrance and the Sophie Dahl nude shoot spoof

I don't know why Clay is so preoccupied with perfumes recently, but he just wondered aloud if anyone knew how cumming the fragrance was selling.
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Christian group angry at "Slutbucks".

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Nike apologies for Zlatan Ibrahimović's gun fetish.

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NY Times: Which Came First, or Does It Even Matter?

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Candid Camera Concept Catchy for Pizza Hut and Carl's Jr/Hardees

Earlier this year, Yum Brands Pizza Hut launched it's new pasta offering by setting up a fake restaurant named Tuscani, serving their new pasta a

"Play, Boy!" looks a lot like the Brazil vs Argentina posters

This Playboy ad was found in a German magazine and reminded me of the
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Bacardi Mojito Ad

Cleaning the glass

Bacardi Mojito Ad

The Get Out Clause CCTV video VS The Frames CCTV video.

As much as I hate this song, I love the idea of the video.
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Louis Vuitton sues designer over Darfur T-shirt

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Tom Ford Eyewear ad gets banned in Italy

It was just a matter of time, wasn't it?
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The self proclaimed featherhead gets to keep the domain Teflonminne, Dupont sulks.

WIPO has released their administrative panel decision in regards to the domain name Teflonminne, which I told you about here: DuPont's Teflon doe
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Gossip Girl - OMFG (2008) Print (USA)

There's such a big flap over the new Gossip Girl billboard that uses a four-letter txt word, but it's not as controversial as French Connect
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Korean cosmetics maker Coreana finally pulls "Nazi ad"

Wallyworld gossips with us and tells us that the Korean Nazi ad has been pulled, the ad from from Coreana has been rubbing all sorts of people the wro
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McCann India's Hanes ads run into global controversy

They were ads that McCann-Erickson India was hoping would win them some international awards.
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Rolling, rolling, rolling ... Badland!

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Coca Cola featuring Tibetan monks ticks off Chinese ex-pat in Germany

Have you heard that old myth about the McDonald's burger makers?
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Homer vs. Hormel

When I saw this Hormel spot today, all I could say was D'OH!
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Poster looting in Chicago stealing the snacks inside

Karlssons Klister (UHU) poster campaign in Stockholm fails.

There were quite a few interesting Karlssons Klister outdoor executions in Stockholm this week - sadly the best one (possibly) was taken down before I
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The Mummy in Badland - UPC vs some Egyptian rent-a-car

Here's a Badlander sure to amuse, and horrify, all ye adgrunts out there. No, not because there's a scary mummy in the ad, and not even b
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Folgers vs. Pizza Hut

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The Mexican version of "in an absolut world" map of North America, ticks off people in the USA

The Mexican version of the north american map in their installment of the "In an absolut world" campaign, LA Times blogs gossips that the ad
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Google vs. Sonox: wa the hell?....

PETA "Fur is a drag" offends transgendered

Showtime vs ACLU, parody or plagarism?

Remember when ACLU wentall flag-waving patriotic in a campaign shot by Peter Gerke?
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Military Stories - Badlanded

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Ad agency sues client for 1.5 million after lost pitch

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Obama really really really wants to be President.

Joe Woody vs. Taco Bell

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Well, at least he drives a prius, right?

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Crispy Frickin' Chicken freaks out street preacher

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TouchBlue vs Carl's Jr: Is that egg on your face?

Not one, but two different guys (non adgrunts with yahoo emails so it could in fact be the same guy) sent me this 'scoop' within two minutes
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Clustarack does a "cog"/domino ad video

We've seen plenty of examples of the "Der Lauf Der Dinge" thing, Honda's Cog film which was sued for being a rip of Swiss artists
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"Be kind, rewind" - Ok, I will!

Adland's own hot-shot director Michel Gondry has a new movie coming out called "Be Kind Rewind." In it two guys who work in a video sto
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FNAC vs. Rocket Boom vs. Flickr

It's good to see that album art is alive and well in the era of mp3s. But to quote AC/DC, who made who?
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Commonwealth Bank now commonly hated in ad biz.

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World of silence

See both films (and more) inside!
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Balloon animals and other condoms badlander

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Astroturfing will bite you in the ass, and get a mention in the New York Times.

We've done this before (remember the hidden [in plain sight] persuaders debate?).
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What's missing is inspiration. MMmkay?

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Cult Shaker: "Fuck me I'm famous"

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Dutch fireworks ad featuring islamic terrorist group slammed for being anti-muslim

The Dutch government's consumer safety institute firework safety message campaign featuring a spoof Islamist terrorist group has been citisized f

Honorary Badlander: Plagiarizing books.

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A double barreled Badlander.

Lowe Australia caught plagarising quantum mechanics lecture, donates money to kids science

Two months ago, Scott Aaronson discovered that an Australian Ricoh advert from Lowe had taken it's dialog straight from his quantum mechanics lec
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Get out of advertising! Where do you get inspired?

Paul Arden yells this at lectures - "Get out of advertising!" - meaning seek inspiration from outside of the office walls.
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T-Mobile / Deutsche Telekom sues Telia Sonera over the color Magenta

Deutsche Telekom have been doing this for a while - that's why there's a reclaim magenta petition out there and an all pink photogroup on fl
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HP corners the cookie-cutter design markets, rolls out TV ads for Logoworks.

There were many who weren't pleased when Paula Scher will design your letterhead for free via HP.

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