The 10 Weirdest Ad Stories of the Month
Drug-inspired cat food ads! Plagiarized Coca-Cola commercials! Hilarious security camera footage! It all happened in February 2010:
- Security cam catches Mullen creative director walking into glass door Debate over whether this was staged or real. Either way, it's funny.
- Is it NSFW if it's only text? German condom ad consists entirely of carefully arranged fonts, but they're totally doing it.
- What a long, strange trip this Friskies ad is Inspiration for cat food commercial drawn directly from lyrics to Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit, by the looks of things.
- Porn actor "help wanted" ad banned in the U.K. Upfront payment was required of potential woodsmen. In other news: Those ads actually work?!
- Coke Super Bowl spot copies Israeli milk ad frame for frame Irony! Wieden + Kennedy execs complained in the past about other people copying their work -- apparently it goes both ways.
- Blogger: "Alex Bogusky will pick his nose and fart in front of you" Surely Crispin Porter + Bogusky's lawyers are preparing a defamation suit over this bizarre rant?
- Is there nothing that WPP CEO Sorrell doesn't have an opinion on? Nationalize the newspapers before they go out of business! says Comrade Martin.
- ANC to Ogilvy: The check's in the mail! South African ad agency didn't get paid because it left an R17.5 million bill with the wrong security guard.
- Chocolate drink ad shows naked boys under a sunlamp This sort of thing was acceptable back in the mid 20th Century, apparently.
- Get a clue: DraftFCB appoints a "head of ideas" Isn't this just one step away from employing a guy to sit in an office and provide arguments, a la Monty Python?
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