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Buy our shoes or we'll kill this dog 27 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
Sorry, I couldn't help but remember National Lampoon when I saw this ad: Here's the copy: Project E:MOTION isn’t for the faint of heart.* That’s because our new midsole design forces your stride int...
Buzzfeed gets sucked into the "pro-life" movement 24 Aug 2013 | 02:55 am
We all love and hate Buzzfeed, to various extents. The community is mostly link-bait lists, with the occasionally in-depth post. And Copyranter is pretty cool. But the very structure of Buzzfeed — a ...
Is this tampon ad the worst, or the best thing ever? 23 Aug 2013 | 10:27 pm
It's not your mother's tampon ad. But it's no "Camp Gyno" either. This Spanish ad for Tampax Pearl, called "This Summer, Get Wet," features a woman in a swimsuit surrounded by male gaze. When one man...
"Drink more water" PSAs banned from local cinema 22 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
Two low-budget health department PSAs promoting water drinking have caused unexpected controversy in Ukiah, California: According to Daily Journal News, the ads have been rejected for placement in th...
Cosmetics ad tries to objectify men, still makes women look shallow 21 Aug 2013 | 09:43 pm
On the surface, this campaign by Benefit Cosmetics seems to turn the tables on the sexual objectification of women by featuring men with "big packages": In the end, however, it just goes back to the ...
Halifax mall accused of belittling women's academic achievements 20 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
There's a bit of a controversy blowing up on Twitter right now over Halifax's Mic Mac Mall and the way they advertise back-to-school shopping. The slide above still appears on the mall web site, but ...
Subaru ad serves up old-timey sexism 20 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
If they had web ads in the 1950s, I'll bet they'd look like this: This ad, which compounds its failure by having a bad link, was spotted on Fark.com. There's also a banner: I guess the archaic hum....
The most explicit ad for a mainstream newspaper ever? 19 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
It's for the online edition of Ha’aretz. The script is in Hebrew, so I'll have to trust the description given in The Hollywood Reporter: The spot, which surfaced online via YouTube Sunday and current...
Can PETA's naked celebrity ads get any more ridiculous? 19 Aug 2013 | 09:58 pm
Via PETA Latino The answer, quite clearly, is "yes". I'm trying to figure out how someone thought this was sexy: "Oh yeah, the broccoli floret kind of looks like green shag carpet. We can have Patri...
Pakistan bans condom ad for all the wrong reasons 17 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
It meant well. Josh ("Strong") Condoms are an initiative from DKT International, a not-for-profit organization that supplies and promotes condoms in several countries for family planning and HIV/AIDS ...
