Loads of really bad attorney commercials! Bikini vodka ad uprising! Bring back cigarette advertising! It all happened in June 2010 ...
- Diesel's "Smart may have the brains but, stupid has the balls" campaign banned in the UK.
The campaign featured a number of ads including one with a girl on a stepladder flashing her breasts at a CCTV camera, while another features a woman holding open her bikini bottom and taking a photo of her nether regions.
- The worst-ever lawyer commercials, now in one place!
And boy are they doozies. Want to get rid of that "vermin" you call a wife? "Pay me now!" Rapping! "The California switchblade!" Explosions!
- New Japanese target demographic makes absolutely no sense at all
You may have heard of otaku: an obsessive male manga fan who is a bit of a shut-in. For those under 30 the word now confers real street credentials. A recent McCann Pulse survey found that more than two-thirds of young adults want to be seen as otaku. What?
- Ad shows gays what they're missing by not being allowed to marry
"To the 44% of Californians who think homosexuals should not be allowed to marry. Why would you support Prop8 and spare them from a long, unforgiving, lifetime of wedded torment?"
Girls in bikinis protest NYC vodka ad ban
New York's MTA decided not to run Georgi's ad featuring a woman's backside in a bikini after religious groups complained, giving the company a perfect PR moment to exploit.- Fired Geico voiceover guy continues to obsess about drunk-dialing the Tea Party
He wants all Americans to leave weird voicemails at the right-wing activists' HQ.
- Does this lawyer's tagline contain a four-letter word?
Andrew Smiley always bids his audience farewell with the words, "See you next Tuesday." This was a Sex and the City joke that meant something else.
- Adman really misses cigarette advertising
A walk down memory lane to the golden era of euphemistic tobacco promotions.
- Peter Arnell: Whatever I did wrong, it's not my fault
In his new book Shift, he writes that you "never have to blame yourself." When asked about the Tropicana redesign and the axing of the Peapod in this interview, he certainly doesn't.
Lori Senecal just wants to exploit her employees to the fullest
Need another week for that project? Lori Senecal of Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners argues that what you need is less time, not more. "If you want to get it done, give it to the busiest person," she said. Or do it yourself. Eliminate process steps, pass offs and interruptions. And hire makers, not just thinkers.
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