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Bloody hell, you can't show a half-full beer in Canada

The ad story that just won't die this month seems to be Australia's "Where the bloody hell are you?" campaign.

Bloody is now bloody OK for OZ

The British restriction on the Australian tourism ad "Where the bloody hell are you?" which was not allowed to run in its original form beca
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Australia's tourism ad restricted for "bloody" in UK

The end of last month we reported on Australia's new tourism campaign featuring the tagline, "Where the bloody hell are you?".
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Diesel Scorpion ad gets banned after no longer running

Diesel's Scoprion ad has been banned by the ASA after a run in The Sunday Times Style Magazine lead to complains.
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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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Australia asks "Where the bloody hell are you?"

Today Australia launches a new AUD$180-million international advertising campaign to promote itself as a tourist destination.
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French Connection Kung-Fu Lesbian Ad Causes Complaints

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Nude models squirting yogurt as ad event fined for obscenity.

A dairy advertising exec genius was just fined for "staging an obscene event" in Seoul, South Korea myway news reports.

First jesus related ad bannage of the year

The first ad victim of the ban-hammer is rather tame, but bound to offend someone in "80% Catholic" Lithuania.
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Refused anti-Foie gras ads - too shocking says railway company

Down in Belgium the animal rights activist group GAIA has gotten their anti-Foie gras campaign banned, sorta.
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Dinner Party With Mild Nudity Causes Mild Ad Bannage.

Bluefly, "a leading online retailer of designer brands, fashion trends, and superior value," appears to have come out with a mag ad and TV c

Sony and Paddy Power ads upset Catholics

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"My NHL" advertising campaign garners complaints

Last week the NHL broke a new advertising campaign titled "My NHL".
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Ads called too sexy in Mexico

An ad campaign to save sea turtles in Mexico is getting some people angry.
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Hell Pizza billboard under review

New Zealand's Hell Pizza chain is getting some backlash from its billboards around Auckland and Wellington which feature George Bush. Outdoor
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Japanese TV ad retreats after accusations of racism

They really didn't mean to be racist they say, but cosmetics maker Mandom Corp realise how bad their ad might look to some and have decided to pu
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Marmite Blob Advert Restricted

Media Guardian reports that the Marmite "Love it or Hate it" Blob spot was pulled from kids' TV.
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13th time is the charm, FCUK needs to fcuking stop it

The UK Advertising Standards Authority are getting miffed at FCUK again and have warned FCUK, this is the 13th time since 1999 that the ASA has publis
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Pepsi ad pulled due to Asian tsunami

A planned ad for Pepsi, with David Beckham, Ronaldinho and Thierry Henry among others has been delayed indefinitely following the the tsunamis in Asia

United Church of Christ - Bouncer - (2004)

This ad from the United Church of Christ which welcoming "all the people" into their congregation, was rejected by all three networks - see

China bans LeBron Nike ads as they are a "national insult"

It's all over the google news sources that China has banned the latest Lebron Nike ads as they are a national insult.
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Jesus And The, Er, Liberal Media

In the United States, we've been hearing a lot about the liberal media and we've been hearing it for a long time.
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"Killer heels"

Newspaper Marketing agency ad steps out of line, gets banned.

The Newspaper Marketing Agency ad nicknamed "killer heels", created by TBWA London, which shows a man spiked on a stiletto has been banned b

US FDA Tells Pfizer to Pull 'Wild Thing' Viagra Ads

Claymore quipped: FDA: "Wild Thing, I think I banned you!"... This ad probably has, due to FDAs late reaction, pulled in quite a few new cu
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Child labour group gets Pepsi ad banned in India.

A judge has ordered Pepsi to withdraw a television commercial that has angered child-labour activists.

Christina Aguilera's naughty nurse ad canned

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Chevy corvette ad withdrawn after complaints.

SFGate reports that the Chevy Corvette ad directed by Guy Ritchie has become a PR nightmare.
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Nike tennis coach ad withdrawn from Australian airwaves

Nike's new global ad, a spot on depiction of giggly teenage girls that have a crush on their handsome tennis instructor, has been withdrawn, due
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Italians angry about 'smelly salami' posters.

A simple poster in the London underground urging people not to eat smelly foods while riding the tube has caused a bit of a diplomatic spat.
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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.

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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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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Cross-dresser too much for the Finns and the Lebanese.

Drag show artist Richard Engfors modeling bikinis
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Ethical advice group bans sexist ads

ERK the ethical advice group have been real busy banning ads lately.
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Opium ad removed.

Just a little note to let everyone know what is going on with the whole p*ypal frozen account deal.
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Paypal froze our assets - newbie super access closed.

Our paypal account as been frozen - right now we can not receive any donations for a super adgruntship that allows access to the commercial archives.

Fun with Foster's, decapitation by waterfowl.

Fosters Lager - Pelican "Don't lose your head" (2003) :30 (UK)

Foster's is in trouble once again for its mock-documentary advertising -- this time over a television ad that shows a reporter having his head bi
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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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WE Spank fashion ad has been withdrawn after complaints.

WE Sweden are in trouble for the way they advertise their underwear.

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,

Beckham banned in Iran

Beckham, the first western celeb to be used in advertising campaigns in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, has been red carded by Irans advertisi
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Grey Goose won't back down

Even though the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of the Better Business Bureaus and the National Advertising Review Board (NARB) agr
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another banned Levi's ad

Yahoo biz! reports that Levi's are suffering from banned ad syndrome this week.
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Levi's Ad banned in New Zealand

Levis "Born again" advert has been banned in New Zealand, reports stuff.co.nz. The complains argued that the baptism imagery was highly o
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Banned Pelé ads for Viagra

Whoa, The U.S. doesn't ban Viagra ads when Rafel Palmiero advertises for Viagra.
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PETA got another billboard banned

Azcentral reports that a billboard featuring a sultry-looking Bonnie-Jill Laflin will not be seen in Helena.
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Levi's Type 1 Jeans - Horse (2003) - 0:60 (USA)

Train by HR Giger
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Islamists ban women in ads in Pakistan metropolis

"Our culture and values are different from the West," he said. "We want to protect women's honour.
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Driving and lipstick application

Harvey Nichols insists the advert, which shows the driver nearly running over a man while using the rear-view mirror to apply her lipstick, was tongue
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Last orders for alcohol ads?

The Independent reports that the Government believes the drinks industry has gone too far with their laddish jokes and sexy puns.
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six feet under poster banned

Advertising posters for US drama "Six Feet Under" have been banned. Depicting corpses the posters sold luxury to die for , embalming flui
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Some Complaints Just Don't Float

The latest UK ban: A Sun newspaper commercial. Reason this time around: A man inhales helium from a balloon. Shocked! Shocked, I am! Hmm...

BBC One - Cliffhanger (2003) :90 (UK)

A village is attacked, a woman runs to save her child, fleeing the attack and the fire, but then she falls over a cliff.
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Cult sexy shaker shakes up Denmark

Kvindeligt Selskab sent letters of complaint and want people to boyott Cult Shaker, due to their sexy advertising.
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MTV refuses to air anti-war ads

Groups opposed to the U.S.-led campaign against Baghdad complain they have been blocked from airing anti-war advertisements on broadcast media increas
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adidas 'shoe bomber' ad bombs.

The advertising watchdog in the UK is investigating after receiving complaints that an adidas poster poked fun at the case of the convicted terrorist
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Viagra reaction to limp idea cans agency's parody

Auckland , NZ : An advertising agency has been forced to cancel a marketing parody of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra after squabbling with pharm
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Zoom Zoom Zoo-oops!

A Mazda spot has been yanked in Australia because they drove too fast
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Nike Gets Bit

It's a minute long. Less than a second of it has two dogs on leashes - a pit bull and a rottweiler - doing what dogs sometimes do.
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Wrigley Xcite - Dog Breath (2003) - 0:30 (UK) BANNED

Chew on this - Wrigley«s has broken the record for most Independent Television Commission complaints of a TV commercial in the UK - nearly 700 and cou
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ASA lets gucci go

The jury is in : the Gucci pubic hair logo ad featured earlier gets okay from ASA! Unexpected.
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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?

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

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

This ad was banned
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Comes the executioner - banned ads

This month the ict have brung down it`s axe on many ads. XBOX CHAMPAGNE BBH bartleboglehegarty.com This ad,which featured a very short life (Lit
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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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PETA - Fur is Dead - (2002) :30

Last years banned ads

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Dreamworks movie ad outrages citizens

This ad is peeving people according to the drugereport.
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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!

No sex please, we are the financial times.

FT refused to run a "tasteful page three girl" ad after discovering what it looked like - a topless girl next to the line: "The art of
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Slag = bad / Pot Noodle "Slag of all snacks" campaign banned

Pot noodle has recived the final blow to it's slag campaign As if being knocked up to 9PM watershed and having the slogan changed wasn't
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Olympic Chainsaw Massacre

NBC contributed the latest example of advertising "standards and practices" hypocrisy when it cut a new Olympics spot from Nike spot off at
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FedEx - Wizard of Oz / Lollipop Guild (2000) :60 (USA)

Here's a gem of a commercial that Joe Pytka used greenscreen for.

Tango - Megaphone men force a message - (1998) :10 (UK)

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