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- Burger King Apologizes for Hindu Goddess Ad
- Burger King has apologized for a print ad depicting the Hindu goddess Lakshmi sitting on top of a meat sandwich under words that translated, "Snack is sacred." The ad only ran locally to promote a few stores in Spain, but the company has withdrawn the poster in response to letters...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
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- CNN Won't Run Anti-Abortion Ad Featuring Obama
- CNN is refusing to run an anti-abortion TV commercial because the ad's makers did not get the permission of President Obama to make the ad see video below. The ad tracks the life of Obama over images of in-utero fetuses. On-screen captions say: This child’s future is a broken...
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- Calvin Klein's "Banned" Orgy Ad Is Part of Predictable Fake Controversy Trend
- Calvin Klein has deliberately produced a steamy commercial that it knew had no chance of being aired on TV. (See video below.) The ploy is an increasingly common one among advertisers who realize they can find larger audiences online than they can on TV. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Pfizer Courting More Controversy with Viagra 'Advergaming'
- First it was a pill. Then it was a cultural phenomenon. Now Viagra is a video game. Pfizer is currently advertising its blockbuster erectile dysfunction drug with an online game called "Viva Cruiser." In doing so, the company seems to be courting controversy -- as it has done in the...
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Black TV network rips White House anti-drug ad buy ;BET refuses to air campaign after its bid for bigger budget is rejected.
- In the latest controversy to swirl around President Clinton's anti-drug ad campaign, Black Entertainment Television is refusing to air ads for the initiative. In the latest controversy to swirl around President Clinton's anti-drug ad campaign, Black Entertainment Television is refusing to air ads...
- Research articles 2000-01-17
- The 10 Weirdest Ad Stories of the Month
- Welcome to February. Here's our usual roundup of weird news from the ad world that popped onto our radar in January. 40 years on from Mad Men, ad agencies still use female employees as eye candy A trio of agency promo videos recently collected on MediaBistro...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- J&J Triggers Mommy War With Motrin 'Anti-Baby Sling' Ad
- A Johnson & Johnson TV commercial for Motrin has triggered an avalanche of hate from new moms. The offending ad, which you can see here and below, pokes fun at moms who carry babies in slings by suggesting that it is likely to make your neck and back ache more...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- The Katie Couric factor: media buyers rate the value of Dan Rather's anchor replacements in ratings and ad dollars.(AD Infinitum)
- No wonder CBS Chairman Les Moonves is interested in Katie Couric. With Dan Rather exiting the CBS Evening News amid a nasty controversy, Couric is the best bet to restore order--and ratings (see B&C, 12/20/04, page 3)--even if Moonves has to wa No wonder...
- Research articles 2005-01-24
- Google/Yahoo Ad Deal Keeps Stirring Up Controversy
- Julia Boorstin submits: It seems like every week Google GOOG and Yahoo's YHOO proposed ad partnership stirs more controversy. On Monday the World Federation of Advertisers, which represents 55 national advertiser associations, said it asked the European Union to block the partnership, which is expected to launch next month....
- External links 2008-09-24
- Campbell's Gay Soup Ad Causes Storm in a Bread Bowl
- Campbell Soup has placed an ad in gay magazine The Advocate. The ad, which shows two lesbian parents and their son, touts Campbell's Swanson line of broth. Predictably, the placement has stirred a ludicrous "controversy," with the right-wing American Family Association accusing the company of embracing the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- MTV Ad for Teva's Plan B Morning-After Pill Has Some Parents Up in Arms
- Duramed, the unit of Teva/Barr that markets the Plan B morning-after contraceptive, is advertising on MTV.com, and some parents don't like it, according to Ad Age. Denise O'Donoghue and her husband, Patrick, who have a 14-year old daughter, said: For MTV to run this ad is...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- New Ad in Support of Judge Owen Premieres as Filibuster Debate Continues; Satellite Feed Available
- WASHINGTON, May 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As debate rages on over the use of filibusters to block President Bush's judicial nominees, a new ad blitz will premiere today in support of a judge in the middle of the controversy. Progress for America, a group that promotes nonpartisan, conservative policies that...
- Research articles 2005-05-19
- SpongeBob and Square Butts: Yet Another Controversial Burger King Ad
- Burger King has done it again. Angry parents and the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood are protesting a new ad featuring SpongeBob SquarePants and the Burger King icon dancing to a new version of one hit wonder Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back." The original begins "I like...
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- TV watchdogs flip out over Paris' burger ad
- Socialite Paris Hilton is never out of sight for long. Her latest controversy, an appearance in a racy commercial for fast-food restaurant Carl's Jr., has drawn the ire of the watchdog group Parents Television Council, which denounced the ad as "soft-core porn" Tuesday. The 30-second ad features Hilton in...
- Research articles 2005-05-25
- Sideshow | NBC refuses 'thank the troops' ad
- NBC says it refuses to run a TV ad by conservative group Freedom's Watch that asks viewers to thank U.S. troops during the holidays, not because of what the ad says, but because the group's Web site has partisan political content. The network said the site is an issue because...
- Research articles 2007-12-08
- Ad at Center of Dispute Between Michigan Company, Former Agency. (Originated from Detroit Free Press)
- DETROIT--Mar. 12--ABC and Fretter have been slugging it out on the airwaves and in the marketplace for years. Now, a controversy over a well-known ad campaign has both appliance- electronics discounters mixing it up in a new forum: Botta Boom, Botta Bing, see you in court. ...
- Research articles 1994-03-13
- Marc Ecko's Vanessa Hudgens Ad Cited for Misleading Kids
- Marc Ecko's TV commercial for Red sneakers, starring singer Vanessa Hudgens, is misleading to children, according to the Children's Advertising Review Unit. CARU is an industry body that monitors children's marketing. The commercial video below, in which Hudgens and her crew are shown dancing in a neighborhood...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- 3 Ways Clients Can Push Ad Agencies to Save Money
- Advertising Age has declared cultural war on procurement officers -- the executives at large advertisers who scrutinize ad agency budgets in an attempt to save money. Editor Jonah Bloom recently denounced the "obsession with ROI return on investment and the rise of the procurement officer" and wondered "whether procurement had...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Web rating firms pushed by ad buyers to measure up; Audit of methods, more sophisticated counts demanded as spending rises.(NetRatings Inc. and comScore )
- Byline: Amanda Fung For as long as there has been an Internet, there's been a slow-burning controversy about how online audiences are measured. The main problem is that the two dominant rating agencies almost never agree. A recent case in point: ...
- Research articles 2007-05-14
- FYI . . .(The World: Ad Age Global News & Data)(briefs)(Brief Article)
- Greg Dyke and Gavyn Davies, the director-general and chairman of the British Broadcasting Corp., resigned last week under pressure from the British government. The government criticized the BBC's reporting of the controversy over the existence of wea Greg Dyke and Gavyn Davies, the director-general and chairman...
- Research articles 2004-02-02
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