I Can’t Believe These 10 Controversial Commercials Actually Aired! Look at #3 it had me speechless
Humans for Animals - Animal rights group, ‘Humans for Animals’ has put together a shocking campaign that will cause viewers to squirm in their seats. With the help ...
Burger King has a new sandwich offering in Singapore called the “Super Seven Incher.” To promote the new product, a local ad agency produced an outdoor ad which is now getting a lot of attention and criticism around the world.
It doesn’t come across as hardly surprising that one of Ford’s ad campaigns as been banned as in the past he has been a part of many controversies and has been criticized for using naked women in various ad campaigns. Journalists have labelled some of his ads as vulgar, sexist, or that they objectified woman. One of these ads is the ad that I’m going to be talking about here.
Reporter Sarah Hashim-Waris has details on a Dunkin' Donuts advertisement in Thailand featuring a woman in blackface; the ad is for Dunkin's new charcoal dou...
When people think of cellophane, there are many things that come to their mind before children. It is used to wrap oddly shaped gift that don’t fit in boxes or wrapping paper, not babies. DuPont cellophane came out with a series of ads in the 1950s that portrayed babies and young children wrapped in their cellophane, stating that “you see so many good things in DuPont cellophane.”
90s SEGA ad: The more you play with it, the harder it gets REACTION. Clip taken from Episode 26 - Video Game Ads that went TOO far.Listen to full episode: ht...
These infamous 1970s Mr. Leggs slack ad campaigns by Dacron used the basic strategies of humor and appeasement to appeal to their targeted audience and potential consumers to increase profit sales. They provide a degrading depiction of women, and as a result, they provide a very accurate depiction of sexism in the 1970s.
One common technique used by the tobacco industry to reassure a worried public was to incorporate images of physicians in their ads. The none-too-subtle message was that if the doctor, with all of his expertise, chose to smoke a particular brand, then it must be safe.
Early 7-Up ad encourages giving 7-Up to babies, because it is "wholesome" and listed the ingredients on the label (before it was mandatory).
Zara pulled an ad campaign that featured images of mannequins wrapped in plastic that angry critics claimed bore a resemblance to the carnage in Gaza.