By Stephen Foster on March 25, 2013
Here’s a different spin on smoking and the disadvantages thereof from BBDO Toronto. Instead of showing people gasping for breath, dying and the horrible state of their insides it swaps ‘social’ smoking for farting – and pretty ridiculous it seems to be. Mind you, if you tried to run a campaign like this on British [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged ad bans, antismoking, bbdo toronto, clearcast, farting, social smoking, tv ad
By Angie Dean on February 13, 2013
This one might change Keira Knightley’s image: the actress best-known for playing Jane Austen heroines has had her new ad for Coco Chanel Mademoiselle banned in the UK because it’s too sexy. Actually it’s only been banned in daytime programmes after a viewer complained that it ran during kids’ film Ice Age 2. And it [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Alex Bogusky, children's programmes, clearcast, coco chanel mademoiselle, ice age 2, Keira Knightley, sodastream, uk ad ban
By Stuart Smith on December 5, 2012
Whatever are the people at Sodastream complaining about? Having their ad pulled from television – in this case by the donkeys at the TV advertising clearing house Clearcast – is a gift. It’s the sort of thing Rupert Howell and his team at HHCL used to have wet dreams about – the possibility of the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, PR | Tagged ad ban, Alex Bogusky, asa, clearcast, code of advertising practice, common agency, free the buggle, sodastream
By Stephen Foster on December 4, 2012
Silly old Clearcast, the media owner-owned body that clears and prepares commercials for transmission in the UK, is sticking by its highly controversial decision to ban SodaStream’s ad knocking the (alleged) excesses of the soft drinks industry. SodaStream’s appeal against the ban has been turned down. Clearcast says the ad “could be seen as telling [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Research | Tagged ad ban, Alex Bogusky, Chris Mundy, clearcast, hogarth, Mark White, sodastream, soft drinks industry, WPP
By Staff on November 27, 2012
Much muttering in UK adland about TV copy clearance gatekeeper Clearcast’s decision to ban SodaStream’s Alex Bogusky ad knocking plastic bottle consumption. Not only do they suspect the board of Clearcast – made up of representatives of the main UK free-to-air channels (including the BBC), Sky and CNN, for some reason – of being got [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media | Tagged Alex Bogusky, clearcast, Coke, commercials, fizzy drinks, hogarth, ofcom, Pepsi, pre-media, sodastream, uk regulator, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 23, 2012
Clearcast is the (privatised) body that clears (or not) TV ads for transmission in the UK. Usually it lets any old rubbish through. But it’s it’s banned this Alex Bogusky-inspired ad from UK transmission despite it running all over the world. It’s making a perfectly valid point, which you may or may not agree with. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged Alex Bogusky, clearcast, fizzy drinks, global tv campaign, sodastream, uk ad ban
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