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 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
By Stephen Foster on January 19, 2012
Which seems a bit harsh really but if this ad for Citroen’s DS4, part of its new Europe-wide ‘Yes’ campaign, prompted someone to have an epileptic seizure then I guess the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority had to rule it off limits. It’s a shame though because Euro RSCG’s ‘creative technologies’ campaign for the Citroen range [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged advertising standards authority, asa, citroen, creative technologie, ds4, epilepsy, Euro RSCG, european campaign, peugeot, uk ad ban
By Stuart Smith on November 23, 2011
It’s official: we, or rather our children, have been seeing far too much of Lucy Pinder’s cleavage, and it’s got to stop. That, in brief, is the judgement of our advertising regulator, the Advertising Standards Authority, on the latest Lynx online and poster ads, which show the glamour model in assorted demi-nue poses. Here’s the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged advertising standards authority, asa, christmas, dove, facebook, internet films, Littlewoods, Lucy Pinder, lynx, media agencies, poster, sex objects, Stuart Smith, uk ad ban, unilever, young audiences
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