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When Cole, Russel & Pryce in Stockholm sent out their (e)mailers to advertise themselves and their new website, they probably didn't expect their own clients would have a cow over their creative ideas.

The campaign - perhaps a homage to the National Lampoons "If You Don't Buy This Magazine We'll Kill This Dog" cover - consisted of emailalerts at first, depicting this adorable little lamb, asking people to visit CR&P's homepage "for the sake of the lamb".....

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Ask a question about advertising that contains the answer to the previous question. Simple as that. We'll pick a post each week for the next three weeks and send them a Jewelboxing 20pack free of charge. We started the thread with three entries as an example. Have at it!

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The MediaGuardian [reg.req.] reports that channel 4 courts controversy with their latest channel promo. The commercial asks channel 4 stars what their favorite swearword is, and the word "cunt" is heard 9 times in just 90 seconds making it the four-letter word of choice. Channel 4 wanted to air this ad in cinemas, only at screenings of the extra gory violent film Kill Bill who's audience is hard to offend, but the the Cinema Advertising Association nixed the ad and refused to air it. Channel 4 will start airing this ad on FilmFour after 10pm on Monday instead.

"There isn't a single person within the channel who has seen this ad and found it anything other than highly amusing," said Bill Griffin, the Channel 4 head of marketing.
"We can understand, however, why the CAA felt they had to turn it down - it does contain the highest number of expletives ever featured in an ad as far as we're aware.

See the unbleeped 90 second advert at updater.co.uk, easily offended people please sod off and don't click. ;)

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Logo RIP

Logo R.I.P is a commemoration of dead logotypes that have been withdrawn from the landscape, some we miss dearly, others died of old age.

Something for the Art Directors/Designers, logolovers
and other brand-hags from The Stonetwins in Amsterdam.

Locum wishes everyone in Sweden a happy (yule) holiday season - with a very dirty ad indeed.

The Media Guardian reports that the Mr. Kipling Christmas ad campaign, which shows a woman giving birth to a baby girl during a nativity play, has received over 100 complaints in the UK.

The TV commercial, created by Saatchi & Saatchi, has been branded "blasphemous" and "offensive" by viewers.